Join us on our church patio on Thursday May 16 at 7:00 PM as our minister, Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair and The A Street Band, lead by Dr. Bob Fuson, reinterpret the practice of tent revival through a contemporary Unitarian Universalist lens.
This is one of the services we look forward to the most. The A Street Band has a strong foundation in bluegrass, folk, and Americana. This service plays to our strengths and allows us to engage in some “musical reclamation."
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Each year our members vote for ten local non-profit organizations for our Share the Plate Program. Each month, with two exceptions, we select one Sunday and give the offering plate to one of the recipients.
The Share the Plate recipient for May 2024 is Center for People. We will be joined by Macala Carter, Executive Director, who will share more information about their important work. Learn more: www.centerforpeople.org You may contribute to Center for People anytime during the month of May 2024. If you would like to donate to Share the Plate, you can read about your options here: www.unitarianlincoln.org/donate You may have heard in service or in your classrooms what we’ve been referring to as “Article II” -- this is the part of the Unitarian Universalist Association's (UUA's) bylaws with the Seven Principles in it (as well as the UU Sources and Purpose statements.) (www.uua.org)
The Article II Study Commission is a group of UUs who were asked to look at the principles and sources and see whether they might need to change...and how. They came up with a new idea. Instead of principles, we would have Values and a Covenant that bind us together. To help us remember the new proposed words in Article II, Rev Elizabeth Mount created the acronym JETPIG which stands for: J: Justice E: Equity T: Transformation P: Pluralism I: Interconnection G: Generosity (and Love) Take our own stuffed JETPIG on an adventure for a week and upload a photo to our Jetpig Facebook page or email to me religiousgrowth@unitarianlincoln.org while exploring one of the new proposed principles living our UU values! If you want to take JETPIG on an adventure, check in with Chelsea or the church office. If you want to recieve the weekly eblast and the monthly newsletter delivered to your inbod, sign up for the mailing list in the footer of this website. Sunday, March 31 • 11:30 AM • 6300 A St.
Join us after service for an egg hunt! Members have been collecting spare change to fill our eggs. The money will be donated to the local charity of the each child's choice. Options are: Lincoln's Little Free Pantries, OutNebraska, and the Center for People. Listen for the bell to ring for the egg hunt to start. We will gather on the patio to hunt outdoors if the weather is good. Our backup plan will be to hunt for eggs in the gallery and hallways if it is raining. All children from Preschool-5th grade can participate. Preschoolers will get a 30 second head start. Children are then invited to head back to the High School room to choose which organization to send their money to and receive a prize for participating! We will provide paper bags for collecting eggs. The Share the Plate recipient for April 2024 is Nebraska Religious Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (RCRF). On Sunday, April 28 at 10:00AM we will be joined by Trey Lusk who will tell us more about what is happening this year at RCRF! RCRF is an interfaith nonprofit organization that brings the moral force of religion to protect and advance reproductive health, choice, rights and justice through education, spiritual grounding, and advocacy.
All Share the Plate donations in April 2024 will support their work. Donations can be made by mailing a check to 6300 A Street, giving through our database - Realm, or text giving Text "UCLincoln" and the amount you wish to give to 73256). Pictorial instructions here: www.unitarianlincoln.org/donate CONNECT THE DOTS Important Dates: Now through April 7 Donations taken online - look for the donation form on the auction page. Will you donate a tasty treat, event, meal, basket or item for the auction this year? Dates to bring non-perishable items to church March 27 - April 6: Wednesday, March 27 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Saturday, March 30 9:00 AM - NOON Sunday, March 31 9:00 -11:00 AM and 1:00 AM - 3:00 PM Wednesday, April 3 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Saturday, April 6 2:00 - 4:00 PM April 14 at NOON BIDDING BEGINS April 28 at NOON BIDDING ENDS April 28 1:00 - 4:00 PM Pick up time for items and tasty treats. All of the links are on the auction page: www.unitarianlincoln.org/auction Saturday, Feb 3 at 10:00AM. Take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in your home by replacing your aging air conditioner and furnace with an air source heat pump! Get the facts about heat pumps at an educational event sponsored by the Green Sanctuary Committee and other local environmental organizations on Saturday, February 3, 10:00 - 11:30 AM at the Unitarian Church of Lincoln, 6300 A Street.
Resilient Electric Analytics estimates that the average cost difference between installing a traditional AC/gas furnace or an air source heat pump in a 2,400 square foot home in Lincoln is $1,700, and using a heat pump will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43 tons over its lifetime. The City of Lincoln and LES are offering a combo rebate of $1,800 with the purchase of a 15.2 SEER2 air source heat pump, so now is a good time to install one in your home. (SEER stands for Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio.) Speakers at the event will explain the basics of how a heat pump works, why it is important not to wait until your unit is broken to replace it, economic costs and environmental benefits of air source heat pumps, and rebates and tax credits available for installing heat pumps. Speakers include City Council Representative Bennie Shobe, former City Council Representative and State Senator Ken Haar, former City Council Representative Curt Donaldson, Lincoln’s Chief Sustainability Officer Kim Morrow, and Lincoln Electric System Manager of Energy Services Marc Shkolnick. Sunday, Feb 18 after Service in the Gallery, 6300 A Street, Lincoln, NE
This first potluck of 2024 is in advance of the annual Justice in Action Network meeting. Think of your best winter comfort food and consider bringing that to share with your fellow Unitarian Universalists (UUs). Even if you forget to bring a dish, you may join the group for some nourishment for your body before we feed our justice appetites. "LOVE WITHOUT ACTION IS A HALLMARK CARD", so preached the Rev. Dr. Oscar Sinclair in his Martin Luther King Day sermon. He further said that Justice in Action provides a focused and strategic opportunity for Unitarian Church of Lincoln (UCL) congregants to demonstrate our love for our Lincoln community. What Oscar didn't say, exactly, is: LOVE WITH ACTION IS SERVED WITH A POTLUCK. Across the globe we see many countries displaying some version of liberal democracy but then gradually yielding to strongman rule. We ask how and why this can occur in genuine democracies. We want to know about any successful recovery. We look at four countries that can be discussed within this framework: Brazil, Hungary, India, and Turkey.
Global Perspectives: The Winter Lecture Series 2024 Can Democracy Be Saved? The Global Trend Toward Strongman Rule The Winter Lecture Series (WLS) will consist of four ZOOM sessions presented on four successive Sundays beginning 2/18/2024. Each will begin at 7:00PM and end around 8:30PM, with a 45-minute lecture followed by an audience-driven Q&A. (Sign up for our WLS mailing list to receive zoom links.)
Learn more about these four distinguished expert lecturers: Zoltan Barany, Erwin Centennial Professor of Government, University of Texas-Austin. A native of Hungary and with a MA from UNL, he is an internationally recognized expert on civilian-military relations and other key aspects of the struggle for civilian democratic rule. He has personal as well as professional reasons to focus on the leadership of Viktor Orban in Hungary. Ashutosh Varshney, Goldman Professor of International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University. He also directs the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia and is Professor of Political Science. A distinguished scholar with a long list of scholarly publications, he knows well the political record of Narendra Modi in India. Wendy Hunter, Professor of Government, University of Texas-Austin. She is a much-decorated expert on Brazilian politics. Her impressive scholarship has led to numerous awards, research grants, and visiting positions. She is fully up to date on the rise and fall of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. Zehra Arat, Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut-Storrs. A native of Turkey, she has published many studies on Turkish politics, human rights, and women’s rights. She has followed closely the long rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Turkish Republic. IMPORTANT! READ ABOUT HOW TO GET THE ZOOM LINKS FOR THE LECTURES If you are not already on the list to receive Winter Lecture Series (WLS) reminders, CLICK HERE to sign up for that email list to receive reminders. We will be sending emails 24 - 48 hours before each lecture with the Zoom link. The Zoom link will be the same for each lecture. Availability: Recorded lectures and Q & A sessions will be posted by the end of March 2024 on the Unitarian Church YouTube WINTER LECTURE SERIES PLAYLIST which lists all the available videos, past and present, for the Winter Lecture Series. Photo by Matteo Di Iorio on Unsplash Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) General Assembly (GA) will be completely virtual this year, June 20 - 23. We have four members interested in being GA delegates. We can have up to six delegates. Our delegates participate and vote in the UUA business meetings. If you are interested in representing the Unitarian Church of Lincoln at General Assembly, please reach out to our Board President Kim Ziemann soon at
board@unitarianlincoln.org. To learn more about General Assembly: Uua.org/ga |
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