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Ordained in 2006 as a Roman Catholic Woman Priest, Eileen is a lifetime resident of Philadelphia and a graduate of the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia. Eileen currently co-pastors the Community of St. Mary Magdalene which is located in Drexel Hill, Pa. and Palmyra, NJ. She is a registered nurse who worked for the School […]

The poet Hafiz wrote, “Like the morning breeze, if you bring to the morning good deeds, the rose of our desire will open and bloom.”  Summer can be a time to feel the morning breeze.  Often this can lead to a more active, enriching engagement with life.  Slow summer days can spaciously allow for blessings […]

It may be more blessed to give than to receive … but both are essential. Maggie Beaumont has been a Unitarian Universalist, and a Wiccan, since 1998, and joined this congregation in 2014. She is a former dean of students at Cherry Hill Seminary and a past board member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist […]

Charles Bowser will present an idea to do a small everyday thing that could have greater impact. He is a single parent, union organizer, political activist and political consultant who officially joined the UU faith in 2004 at Harrisburg UU. There he served as a trustee, a regional delegate and a part of the membership […]

Hildegard von Bingen was a Benedictine nun and abbess who lived in the area of Bingen, Germany in the late 11th and early to mid-12th century. She experienced visions from early childhood throughout her life and from these visions she wrote several books on religious philosophy; composed many plainsong hymns including the first opera in […]

Peter Newton Walsh read a number of his poems written over the past year. Dr. Walsh has been a member of the Unitarian Society of Germantown since 1973, when he, his wife, Marny and their children, Steve, Kathy and Beth, moved to Philadelphia from England.  He has worked at Temple University School of Medicine as […]

he Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, was published in 1997, has sold more than 7.2 million copies in the U.S. and been translated into 40 languages. The Four Agreements are: Be impeccable with your word; Don’t take anything personally; Don’t make assumptions; and Always do your best. These are some lessons learned at a three day […]

Church can be both a noun and a verb. When the former it is usually considered a specific place. I believe that is too limiting; and given that belief, perhaps the meaning of faith can be found, even when, for this UU anyway, there are many times both historically and today that faith in its […]

The World Cup of Soccer is being played in Russia.  This most important global sporting event contains many elements of the best and the worst of our current global, human society.  True stories of rags to riches, players speaking dozens of languages with a common purpose and people all around the globe watching with joy […]

On Father’s Day, people often experience a wide range of emotions, including gratitude, regret, joy and pain.  One aspect of the complex relationships people have with fatherhood involves the different ways in which people express love.  In his book Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman identifies five specific languages of love: “quality time, words of affirmation, […]