Speaker: Preston Luitweiler

TPUUF 2nd Annual Picnic

TPUUF will not be hosting our regular Sunday services this week (July 2nd).  However, we will be gathering at the home of Preston Luitweiler and Linda Weaver for the 2nd Annual TPUUF Picnic.

The picnic will begin at 12:00 NOON. We are requesting that you bring your appetite and NOTHING else other than your sparkling personality.

 

Earth Day and Our Seventh Principle

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Thomas Paine UU Fellowship
Earth Day and Our Seventh Principle
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Our service on April 23 we will celebrate “Earth Day and Our UU Seventh Principle.” Earth Day is April 22, and our Seventh Principle calls on us to respect the interconnected web of life of which we are a part. There were people on this … read more.

Reflections on the History, People and Culture of the Lenape

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Thomas Paine UU Fellowship
Reflections on the History, People and Culture of the Lenape
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Communal worship is often a means of celebration, but can also include confession, seeking new ways of being, acknowledgment of strong feelings and witnessing to a larger truth. Today we honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day in an attempt to learn, to heal and to grow. From … read more.

Deception as a Hound of Hell

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Thomas Paine UU Fellowship
Deception as a Hound of Hell
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One of Howard Thurman’s most important books is Jesus and the Disinherited. He had proposed to publisher Abington-Cokesbury that a better title for this book would have been The Religion of Jesus and the Disinherited because the publisher’s title collapsed the distinction, crucial for Thurman’s … read more.

Returning to the Homelands

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Thomas Paine UU Fellowship
Returning to the Homelands
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Our Soul Matters theme for April is Awakening. Our UU Principles of respect for all people and for the natural world of which we are a part as well as the value we put on justice, truth and democracy should make us receptive to an … read more.

The Equinox and a Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning

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Thomas Paine UU Fellowship
The Equinox and a Free and Responsible Search for Truth and Meaning
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Growing up in New England and Pennsylvania, fall was always my favorite season:  harvest time; the wild colors of the leaves; the crisp air. It came around every year, just as the sun rose and set every day and the moon waxed and waned every … read more.

Thomas Paine’s Foundational Principle of Religion and Government: Justice

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Thomas Paine UU Fellowship
Thomas Paine's Foundational Principle of Religion and Government: Justice
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On this Independence Day 2021, Gary Berton will enlighten us on Enlightenment icon (and our Fellowship’s namesake), Thomas Paine, whose writings inspired the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution. Paine’s first principles are few, but he held one, Justice, as a “foundational” principle because … read more.