Balancing work and rest today often looks like squeezing in some down-time whenever work allows for that. Ancient ones had different ideas though, and their wisdom and discipline can help us find balance and joy today. Why is rest as important as work for our relationships, our happiness, and our spirits?

Our guest speaker, the Rev. Bill Neely, is in his 11th year of ministry with the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, having previously served congregations in Detroit and near Memphis. He attended seminary at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. He currently lives in Hamilton, NJ, with his wife, three kids, and cat, where he enjoys running, reading, spending time at the beach, and watching most sports.

SERVICE NOTES

WELCOME!

New to our church community? Sign our guestbook and let us know if you’d like to get more connected.

For more information on our church community, visit us on the web at http://www.uulosalamos.org or call at 505-662-2346. 

Connect with us on Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/uulosalamos

If you would like to submit a joy or sorrow to be read during next week’s service, we invite you to write it in our  Virtual Prayer Book

Have questions? While our minister, the Rev. John Cullinan, is on sabbatical, contact our office administrator at office@uulosalamos.org.

MUSIC CREDITS

• “Chimes of Freedom” by Bob Dylan. (Aaron Anderson, piano). Permission to stream SESAC song #515725 in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.
• “When the Summer Sun Is Shining,” words: Sydney Henry Knight, music from The Southern Harmony, 1855.  (Wade Wheelock, violin). Song Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Find a Stillness,” words: Carl G. Seaburg, music: Transylvanian hymn tune, harmony: Larry Philips.  (Nylea Butler-Moore, piano). Used by permission.
• “Come, O Sabbath Day,” words: after Gustav Gottheil, music: A.W. Binder. (Kathy Gursky, viola & Yelena Mealy, piano). Used by permission.
• “Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of Foreign Lands and Peoples),” Op. 15, Nr. 1 by Robert Schumann. (Aaron Anderson piano). Music Public Domain, video used by permission.
• “Loch Lomond,” trad. Scottish tune, arr. Aaron Anderson. (Alanna Anderson, cello & Aaron Anderson, piano.) Used by permission.
• “The Way,” text: unknown author, music: Nylea L. Butler-Moore. (UU Virtual Singers with Larry Rybarcyk, acoustic guitar & Nylea Butler-Moore, piano; Nylea Butler-Moore, Music Director; Rick Bolton, AV Engineer.) Used by permission. 

Permission to stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license #A-730948. All rights reserved.

Permission to stream music in this service obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770.

OTHER NOTES

*permission granted through the UUA

OFFERTORY

Our Share the Plate partner for August is the Los Alamos Family Council. 

100% of all offered this month will be given to our partner.

We are now using Givelify.com to process the weekly offering:  https://giv.li/5jtcps

SERVICE PARTICIPANTS

• Rev. Bill Neely, Guest Speaker
• Patrick Webb, Worship Associate
• Nylea Butler-Moore, Director of Music
• Aaron Anderson, piano
• Alanna Anderson, cello
• Kathy Gursky, viola
• Yelena Mealy, piano
• UU Virtual Singers: Kelly Shea, Nylea Butler-Moore, Rebecca Howard, Anne Marsh, Kathy Gursky, Mike Begnaud, & Skip Dunn  
• Rick Bolton, Mike Begnaud, and Renae Mitchell AV techs

Attached media: https://web.archive.org/web/20211111035413/https://www.uulosalamos.org/ucla/pulpit/2021/20210801-Chop_Carry_Rest.mp3

Curriculum – Faith Like a River: Themes from UU History

Dr. Kristy Dean Nadler will lead an interactive discussion about rape culture and subtle ways in which our words and actions create a setting in which sexual violence is acceptable or excused. We will discuss why rape culture exists, how to recognize it, and ways you can contribute to positive change.

As a young white male in South Africa during apartheid, there is no doubt that my privilege sheltered and helped me. The stark injustices of apartheid were obvious, so I thought all I had to do was to leave South Africa in order to be free of racism. But my white privileges continue, and so do the less obvious aspects of my implicit biases.

Find out about kid, youth, and adult RE programming for the 2019-2020 year!
Join our Adult RE Team.
Hear about all of our exciting RE changes and how you and your family can be involved.

This spring, the iconic Four Freedoms painted by Norman Rockwell seventy-five years ago have been on tour for the anniversary of their creation, passing through seven U.S. cities and Normandy, France this coming June for D-Day. As part of the celebration, the Rockwell Foundation commissioned new, 21st-century renderings to portray “Freedom of Worship,” “Freedom of Speech,” “Freedom from Want,” and “Freedom from Fear.” This morning our speaker reflects on what democracy looked like in our parents’ generation and how it appears today. The Reverend Gary Kowalski currently serves as co-minister to the Unitarian Congregation of Taos and is a volunteer firefighter in Santa Fe County. Visit his author’s website at www.kowalskibooks.com.

James Carroll continues his lecture series on understanding the Bible.

The Second–Sunday Forum Series on Different Sciences Help Solve Global Problems welcomes Dr. Galen Gisler as its April speaker.

The Solar System is a dangerous place, as attested by the craters on the Moon and the other terrestrial planets. Earth’s atmosphere protects us from most of the small objects that cross our path, and our active geology erases or obscures much of the evidence of past impacts. At the end of the Cretaceous Period a 10-kilometer wide asteroid struck the carbonate platform of the Yucatan Peninsula, poisoning the atmosphere for decades and contributing to the demise of 75% of Earth’s species, including the dinosaurs. It is only a matter of time before our planet is hit again with a large impact. Galen will discuss how great the risk is, and what is being done to understand and mitigate the risk.

Join our monthly café tables for coffee and socializing centered on varying topics of shared interest: parenting talk, knitting and handcrafts, electric car enthusiasts, community organizing, gardening, and other topics, led by your friends and neighbors.

James Carroll continues his lecture series on understanding the Bible.

The Second–Sunday Forum Series on Different Sciences Help Solve Global Problems welcomes Dr. Chick Keller. Recent national and international reports on the effects of human–caused climate change paint a disturbing picture. We seem to have an emergency on our hands and not much time to react. This talk will deal with expected effects, what is being done, and what you can do to reduce carbon emissions.

Rose Propagation Workshop with KokHeong McNaughton

What to bring – cut roses with stems 6-12” long, or stem cuttings from rose bushes, empty water bottles with caps. For more information, contact KokHeong McNaughton.

The education profession is currently facing two unique challenges: (1) low teacher morale, and (2) a severe teacher shortage. Teacher collaboration with a focus on professional learning and continuous improvement — facilitated by the 60/40 model — not only increases student learning and achievement but improves teacher motivation and engagement and catalyzes progress. The 60/40 model is a structural change that can lead to cultural transformation and directly address the biggest challenges we face in education today.

Join our monthly café tables for coffee and socializing centered on varying topics of shared interest: parenting talk, knitting and handcrafts, electric car enthusiasts, community organizing, gardening, and other topics, led by your friends and neighbors.

Tina will be available to answer any questions or listen to any suggestions that parents or adults have about the RE programming for children, youth, and adults.

James Carroll continues his lecture series on understanding the Bible.

The last several years have seen unprecedented wildland fire activity, with 2018 being the deadliest and most destructive fire season on record. This highlights the pressing need to better anticipate, prepare for, and manage wildland fire behavior. Wildland fires serve as both an ecological process essential for maintaining species diversity and a hazard to human lives, infrastructure and activities. Fire managers’ ability to anticipate fire behavior is key to maximizing ecological value of fire while simultaneously minimizing negative impacts. In this talk, I will discuss the use of computational simulation to better understand and predict wildland fire behavior. I will touch on the roles local topography, small perturbations in the atmosphere and different prescribed fire ignition strategies play in determining wildfire outcomes.

Join our monthly café tables for coffee and socializing centered on varying topics of shared interest: parenting talk, knitting and handcrafts, electric car enthusiasts, community organizing, and other topics, led by your friends and neighbors.

James Carroll continues his lecture on understanding the Bible.

What is the most cost-effective way to power the USA, while at the same time, significantly reducing our emission of carbon by roughly 80%? This talk will focus on answering this question. The research discussed was primarily performed by a team of researchers funded at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, CO.

Join our monthly café tables for coffee and socializing centered on varying topics of shared interest: parenting talk, knitting and handcrafts, electric car enthusiasts, community organizing, and other topics, led by your friends and neighbors.

This is the second forum in the “Second–Sunday” Forum Series about Different Natural Sciences Help Solve Global Problems. Stephen Ledoux’s talk introduces a 100–year–old but little known science that fills the many calls — from the past decades — for a natural science of human nature/human behavior. These calls occur because human behavior contributes to global problems, and the solutions require changes in human behavior, so a natural science of human behavior is needed and, as usual, everyone needs to know something about all the basic sciences including this one.

Join our monthly café tables for coffee and socializing centered on varying topics of shared interest: parenting talk, knitting and handcrafts, electric car enthusiasts, community organizing, and other topics, led by your friends and neighbors.

Our general topic will be on myths and historicity. Then we will cover the Tower of Babel and introduce the character of Abraham. Reading: Genesis 11-13.

In April of 2018, I read an article in the New York Times about the opening of the “Lynching Memorial” in Montgomery, Alabama. This memorial is a project of the Equal Justice Initiative, founded by Bryan Stevenson (author of “Just Mercy” and Ware lecturer at the 2017 UUA General Assembly). In August, I traveled to Alabama to see the memorial for myself. I will share what I saw on my two-day tour through Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham.

Come and learn about the work of the various teams and committees that make the day-to-day life of the congregation possible — and see where you and your talents may might be called to help.