Compiled by Rabbi Sherril Gilbert rebsherril@outlook.com
Inspired by R’ Chava Bahle, R’ Debra Orenstein, & R’ Avraham Greenbaum, Margaret Wheatley; Judaism Unbound podcast, and R’ Hannah Dresner.
Sermon given at the Lakeshore UU Congregation – 24 November 2019
So there is this … read more.
On Saturday 5 October 2019, Lakeshore members, namely Susan, Toni and Christopher, walked to raise $ 1312 in funds for Action Réfugiés Montréal.
This organization holds just this one fundraiser, Ride for Refuge, each year to help support its work with … read more.
Today, we begin another year of celebrating our lives together, sharing our thoughts and feelings, our joys and sorrows. I have chosen this morning to celebrate the life and words of an inspiring Afro-American poet, Maya Angelou. I’ll start with a thumbnail portrait.
She … read more.
A Pact for the Transition – from Words to Action
At the end of 2018, our Québec artistic community has announced le Pacte pour la Transition which combines a personal commitment to reducing our ecological footprint and slowing global warming with a vigorous lobby to press … read more.
Summary: Investments, income & expenditures ALL DOWN.
Last year, investments were up markedly although income and expenditures were both on a continuing downward trend.
So this year is the first recent year where our investments have declined over the year, due to stock market drops in the … read more.
In February, Kim Turner who grew up in the Lakeshore Unitarian Church (LUC) and is now a member of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax (UUCH) wrote to Lakeshore to tell us she had discovered a box of wooden tokens in going through her deceased … read more.
Leonardo da Vinci believed that water was to the world as our blood is to our body. It is a vehicle of nature and connects all to all. Streams, rivers, seas and oceans all speak to the flows of energy and connection through our lives … read more.
The Canadian Unitarian Council’s National Social Justice Team has launched a new two-year initiative called The Ripple Effect, focusing on that key resource which is water. It is also an issue which intersects with First Nation concerns and rights.
A short (9 minute) documentary about hunger in the apparently affluent West Island was written, directed and produced by Concordia University students, Akshay Grover, Max Duguay, and Luca Brown, with coordination by the West Island Community Resource Centre (WICRC).
WICRC comments: The … read more.
McGill University Senior Faculty Lecturer George McCourt spoke to Lakeshore UU Congregation on Sunday 27 January 2019. His talk follows.
Good morning. I thought I would tell you a little about the recent work that McGill University has been involved in in … read more.
