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Sunday Morning Forum

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Contact:  adultre@uufp.org.
Sunday Morning Forum began many years ago in complement to minister led worship on Sunday mornings. With our Unitarian Universalist values as both foundation and springboard, the Forum has grown into a well moderated, high quality, adult discussion group that promotes learning on a wide variety of topics. It is a classroom of people who trust each other's good intentions and value each other's diverse opinions.

Together, UUFP's pastoral and laity-led educational opportunities nourish the mind and spirit and infuse us to be Light in the world!
Join us!
Every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 
UUFP Office Building  *  13136 Warwick Boulevard, Newport News
Parking is available in the Office and Sanctuary lots and on both sides of Youngs Mill Lane.
Visit Sunday Morning Forum Archive 2019 or 2017 - 2018 
​to view our library of stimulating discussions.
Upcoming and most recent Forums are highlighted below.
Upcoming Highlights

"The Road to Mindfulness"
Two-part series - October 6 & 13, 2019

Presented by Dennis and Carole Shaw
 Most of us are so busy attending to all we have to do that we forget to live.   Do we know what is truly happening in our lives as each precious moment goes by?  Come and discuss what it means to be mindful. Explore the ways in which we can try to be more aware of our lives even as we are living them.  Among other steps we may take, we will discuss mindful breathing, yoga and meditation. We will introduce ways to help us live more fully. We will all “be in this together,'' sharing any experiences we may have had with attempts at living more mindfully.  Join us for a two-part talk on October 6 and 13.

October 20, 2019:  "Toxic Masculinity"

Presented by Cameron Hardin
Younger generations have put many traditional ideas under scrutiny.  One of these ideas is masculinity and what it means to be a man. The discussion of "Toxic Masculinity" will be facilitated by Cameron Hardin  who will confer the ideas about masculinity and society’s effect on today's young men. Cameron Hardin was raised as a Unitarian Universalist and currently works at the Newport News Shipyard.  Though "Toxic Masculinity" is normally seen as a "man's issue," all voices and perspectives are encouraged to join! 

Please note:  This forum will encompass taboo topics that may make some individuals uncomfortable or offended.  Participants' discretion is advised.

October 27, 2019: 
​"How to Talk with Someone
​Who Doesn't Want to Listen"

Presented by Gary Ott

November 3, 2019:  "God and Energy"

Presented by Susan Schneider
During Susan and daughter Heather’s study of spiritualism, they thought their husband/father, Lenny, needed to have a spiritual path.  So, when Joseph Lee, a Jungian Psychologist, offered a conference on Western Mystery Kabbalah, they took Lenny.   As Lenny would say, they got, “hooked."  Ever since that early 1990 workshop, Susan has been studying with Joseph, in person, and with Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), though the mail.
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Susan relates:  “The Kabbalah explains the idea that God is light, or as we would say, energy--energy that was forced by pressure through the different worlds or “dimensions” into Malkuth’s solid energy forms where we live.  These energy pressure points of color energy waves and sound waves are known as the Tree of Life. The tree of Life can be experienced through meditation and chanting by mutilations of these wave forms.”​
November 3, 2019:  "Responding to a Medical Crisis" -  Presented by Parker Stokes
November 10, 2019:  "UU Evangelism" - Presented by Helan Hagstrom
November 27, 2019:  The Law of Attraction" - Presented by Lehni Lebert
Previously at the Sunday Morning Forum

"Report on UUA General Assembly - 2019"

Presented by Sandra Engelhardt, Judy Remsberg, Pat Sloan, 
Lin Chambers, Alan Sheeler
September 29,2019
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(L - R): Remsberg, Sloan, Sheeler, Chambers, Engelhardt
 The five UUFP Delegates to the 2019 General Assembly, Sandra Engelhardt, Pat Sloan, Judy Remsberg, Lin Chambers and Alan Sheeler, will provide highlights and impressions of their week in Spokane, Washington.

General Assembly is the annual meeting of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Attendees worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process.  Anyone may attend; congregations must certify annually to send voting delegates.

"Born in Contradiction:  400th Anniversaries"

Presented by Lois Winter
​September 22, 2019
“Four hundred years after enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia,
most Americans still don’t know the full story of slavery…We’ve got to tell the unvarnished truth.” 
-The 1619 Project, the New York Times.   August 18, 2019
Twenty nineteen marks the 400th anniversary of both the First Representative Assembly in Jamestown and the first Africans imported to English North America:  the beginnings of democracy and slavery at the same time, the same place, with the same people.
In the past, our educational system has dealt with this liberty/slavery contradiction by ignoring it.  For generations the history of African Americans has not been adequately taught.  We’ve had history by omission.
At the Sunday Forum on September 22, Lois will share some of the African American history we were never taught.
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Want to learn more about the mind and spirit expanding Forum exchanges?
Visit:  SUNDAY MORNING FORUM ARCHIVE 2019 or 2017 - 2018
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