Imagine our Fellowship as a big family! We all gather together for worship services and coffee hour, sharing the same messages and rituals. This is a great chance to connect with people of all ages, from the youngest members to the wisest. We know this might be a new way of experiencing congregational life, and it […]
Author: Nick Wallwork
Nick Wallwork joined the Fellowship staff in July 2021. For over a decade and a half, he has put his passions to work professionally, working for justice on political campaigns and as an activist and teaching and guiding children and youth on a more just and spiritual path. Coming to MUUF as a new UU, he will be learning with all of us how to live out our seven principles better. Nick has a Master’s Degree from Dubuque Theological Seminary and is a Certified Spiritual Director. He likes community, coffee, diners, cooking, getting loud, music, meditation, family, breaking bread, New Jersey, the Buffalo Bills, and summer camp.
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Looking towards Next Year in Children and Youth Religious Education
“I think we can learn together, but we don’t have to always be separate to learn important things” -Rev. Sasha Ostrom As we continue to grow closer as a community and larger in size, it will be more and more important for us to intentionally be together, singing together, socializing together, and learning together. So […]
Children in the Sunday Service
We encourage children to remain in the entire service. There is a benefit to their presence In the meantime, as we move to one service, I acknowledge that it is difficult for some children to sit still in service and focus (and if we are honest, it can be difficult for many adults as well). […]
The Congregation is the Curriculum
The number one thing I talked about with the team that hired me was “Bridging the Upstairs/Downstairs Divide” which has been so prevalent at the Fellowship. And in learning about the history of the Fellowship, this is an intentional design. This “Silo-ing” was common in churches in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early aughts. But […]
The Importance of Our Whole Lives and Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Our Whole Lives (OWL) is a comprehensive sexuality education program designed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ to provide accurate, developmentally appropriate information about sexual health, identity, and relationships. OWL helps people make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health, behavior, and relationships throughout their lives. The world is […]
Faith Formation
I recently asked some of our families what brought them to the fellowship. Some of their answers were, “I was looking for a community that held my values,” “We were looking for a progressive religious community in which our daughter, Kristi, could find community, values, acceptance, tradition, knowledge of traditions,” “I wanted my kids to […]
Rites of Passage
Recently I’ve been looking at our Unitarian Universalist rites of passage. Our official ones, Child Dedication, Coming of Age, Bridging, are obvious. But we also our OWL (Our Whole Lives) program is in a way a right of passage, with various stages (k-1, 4-5, 7-8, 10-12). Many societies and religious traditions have rites of passage; […]
RE Changes
Two weeks into RE and we are already changing things around. We moved class locations and turned the first Sunday of October into a MultiGen instead of a Chapel Sunday. But that seems to be the way of things these days. We have made adjustments to protect our children from this pandemic that still goes […]
Reflection on Ingathering
There are many things that stood out to me at our Ingathering Service last Sunday. The announcement of a gift. Being together in person. The milestone of affirming a young person’s chosen identity. Our commitment to social justice despite the neighborhood antagonism against it. But one thing really stood out to me and I’m sure […]
What is Education
I love this quote from Einstein. I even wrote about it several years ago while serving as an educator in a Presbyterian Church. It speaks to the reason why I do Religious Education. So much of the world’s education is about memorizing facts that our children forget how to be true citizens of the world or how […]