Jan 27, 2016 | Feature Stories, From Rev. Dave
Awareness isn’t for the weak of heart. That’s why we strengthen ourselves through beloved community. That’s why we cultivate nourishing relationships. That’s why we create beauty. That’s why we pursue commerce. That’s why we craft worship together. That’s why we...
Dec 12, 2015 | Feature Stories, News
Allegheny UU member and our dear friend Kathy Kozachenko talked recently about her little-known or recognized status as the first openly gay person to win an election in the United States, to the Ann Arbor City Council in 1974. It’s a very personal story and...
Oct 1, 2015 | Feature Stories, From Rev. Dave
This October offers a time of intentional reflection on the spiritual practice of forgiveness. Forgiving, I gift myself the space to move into right relationship with the offense and the offender. Sometimes that right relationship is: “I am free to go about my life...
Sep 9, 2015 | Feature Stories, From Rev. Dave
Each month, Allegheny and First Unitarian share a spiritual focus for worship and other programs. The spiritual focus for September is “Faith.” Ours is a simple faith. Life is a short embrace. Heaven is in this place every day. – from “Ours is a Simple...
Jul 26, 2015 | Feature Stories, News
The Rev. Dave McFarland closed his eyes to summon details from that life-altering day. It was Feb. 22, 1991. He was lying on the floor, surrounded by 50 people. They were performing breathing exercises at a spiritual retreat in San Francisco, where he felt the...
Jul 21, 2015 | Feature Stories, From Rev. Dave
An article recently came across my desk. I pass it along especially for a dearly beloved who awhile back shared a different article from a grieving mother who took a famous televangelist to task for his theory of grieving. (That theory was, in a nutshell: “Get...
