By Emmalinda MacLean Director of Religious Education emmalindaDRE@gmail.com At the beginning of February, we decided to change our Religious Education classes in a big way, and I like it. We … Continue reading RE MATTERS: Bold Changes for Our Classroom Community
MARCH 2017 What Does It Mean To Be a Community of Risk? To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. … Continue reading SOUL MATTERS: What Does It Mean To Be a Community of Risk?
By Scott Rieker Choir Director, Emerson Choir scott@scottrieker.com It’s a privilege to be attending a graduate program where every class presents something valuable to learn. Often, those lessons are curricular, … Continue reading MUSICAL MUSINGS: Four Lessons About Silence, From Grad School
By Tracy Watson Vice President, Board of Trustees At its February meeting, the Emerson Board of Trustees continued to grapple with the problem of filling the vacant position of … Continue reading FROM THE BOARD: “Three Heads are Better than One”
On Sunday, February 12, 2017, Officer Jose Moreno of the LAPD gave a presentation and Q&A on immigration and deportation issues at Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church. Officer Moreno encouraged members of … Continue reading NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH MEETINGS IN WEST VALLEY
A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE FROM EMERSON UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH REGARDING THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and in response to the acts of … Continue reading A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE
By Emmalinda MacLean Director of Religious Education emmalindadre@gmail.com Well, we are certainly alive in interesting times. This isn’t a reality any of us saw coming, and it’s frightening, especially to … Continue reading RE MATTERS: Raising Children in the Resistance
By Scott Rieker Director, Emerson Choir scott@scottrieker.com Public humiliation has been considered an effective means of punishing people since time immemorial, and most forms of punishment include an element of … Continue reading MUSICAL MUSINGS: This Is Humiliating!
Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own … Continue reading SOUL MATTERS, February 2017, What Does It Mean To Be A Community of Identity?
By Scott Rieker Director, Emerson Choir scott@scottrieker.com I’ve debated for weeks over whether I should pen this column, because to some folks the subject matter is offensive, or at least controversial. … Continue reading MUSICAL MUSINGS: A New Year’s Revelation
