The being of A one and only one Amongst thousands of millions of other ones So many Thems and Those Sharing a remarkable likeness All with a heart, head and – mostly – ten toes With such great sum, individual ones can get lost and hard to see The greatness in our mass … Continue reading Two to the Power of One
Creating Theology Together – CUC 2018 Eastern Regional Gathering Our Board President Susan and I attended the Canadian Unitarian Council’s Eastern Regional Gathering under the theme of Creating Theology Together. This three-quarter day workshop was held on Saturday 17 November 2018 in Kingston, ON., with about 20 participants from Eastern Ontario and Québec, under the … Continue reading Creating Theology Together
Judaism Unbound – What My Faith has Taught me about Building Community in a Multicultural World Rabbi Sherril Gilbert April 2018 Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Congregation In a sermon I gave recently, I announced to my congregation that I had decided to sign my emails with the tag line “My religion is love.” I had fully … Continue reading Judaism Unbound
2018 Stewardship Report Summary: Investments UP, Income and Expenditures DOWN Major factors influencing our investment results: – shorter reference period (to February) this year due to earlier date of this presentation – slower growth in LAM investment fund 3,5% this year vs. 7% last year (BLUE bars) – both years had identical withdrawal of 5000 $ … Continue reading 2018 Stewardship Report
As part of our community’s on-going reflections on stewardship, we need to think not only about fundraising but also about how we spend our money. To this end, the Annual General Meeting in June 2017 adopted the following resolution: To strike a committee to reflect on the uses to which our investment fund could be put to sustain … Continue reading Long-range Planning Meeting
During a Membership and Communications Committee brainstorming session at Lakeshore on 31 March 2017, Timothy Byrnes suggested that building a new blog-compatible website could be the most cost-effective way of making what we offer as an inclusive spiritual community better known to the larger Montreal community. Nowadays, with so much information available on-line, talking up … Continue reading Communications Committee updates new Website
Near the end of February 2018, I went on a two-week visit to my sister Carole who lives in New Smyrna Beach in Florida. It is nice to visit family and also enjoy some respite from the tough winter we had this year. I want as well to feel at home away from home … Continue reading Home Away from Home
OVERVIEW I am going to talk about a Near Death Experience, that is to say, memories from a coma. This is based on Anita Moorjani‘s Dying To Be Me, published in 2012. In my talk, I’ll broach the following points: 1) the life of the person before their illness, 2) the illness and attempts to … Continue reading A Near Death Experience: Dying To Be Me
