DANCING IN THE DARK - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-12-20 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. December 21st is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year and a time to consider how both darkness and light are necessary for all things – including our spirit – to grow and thrive. Today we’ll consider how our ancestors observe this event and what it means for us today.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

WINTER SOLSTICE - Lauren Hooker
2015-12-13 10:30 - 23:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz
Join pianist/vocalist Lauren Hooker celebrating this year’s Winter Solstice with song, native American flute music and African Djembe call and response. A time for reflection as well as group participation.
LAUREN HOOKER – BIO
Lauren Hooker is known throughout the Metropolitan area as a jazz vocalist, pianist, songwriter and lyricist, as well as an acclaimed music and events producer via an arts coalition she founded, and a storyteller via her arts in education company: Musical Legends. With numerous radio and television appearances and three cd’s to her credit, she performs regularly with her quartet and as a solo artist. As an educator, she currently teaches piano in her home studio and as a teaching artist via Arts Horizons. Much more than just a singer or a musician, she has lived the life of an artist, going from one important project to another and uplifting each area of her life with her creativity, wit and sensitivity. For more info visit:www.laurenhooker.com

Bring a friend and stay for coffee and light refreshments. We look forward to seeing you!

CHANUKAH - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-12-06 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Today we will light the Chanukah menorah and consider the spiritual meaning of both the miracle of Chanukah and the lighting of the candles.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and great conversation. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

SHARING OUR MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES - Deborah Singer Pires and Arlene Holpp Scala
2015-11-29 10:30 - 12:00 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP Co-Presidents, Deborah Singer Pires and Arlene Holpp Scala. Have you ever had a mystical experience that defied explanation? Many of us have. In keeping with our tradition of “out-of-the-box” services on the fifth Sunday of the month, we will be talking about Spiritualism and sharing our paranormal experiences. Come with your stories and an open mind!
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and great conversation. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

A DICKENS OF A HOLIDAY PARTY!
2015-11-27 18:00 - 22:00 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for “A Dickens of a Holiday Party!”
This is a great alternative to Black Friday!!
We will have a potluck dinner with friends to kick-off the holiday season! Bring some of your Thanksgiving leftover main course, side dishes, and dessert goodies to share. We’ll provide hot cider, coffee, tea, and maybe a Wassail bowl or two. Feel free to bring your own wine.
We will be having a viewing of the 1951 version of “A Christmas Carol” starring Alastair Sim. Before the film, Rev. Paul will be sharing some comments on Charles Dickens, his connection to Unitarianism, some thoughts on the text of “A Christmas Carol,” and social justice work in Victorian England. After the film a time for dessert and some questions and discussion.
Also please bring any canned and / or non-perishable items for donation to our local food pantries.
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

THE QUEEN BEE - Jack McKeon
2015-11-22 10:30 - 12:00 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by special guest speaker, Jack McKeon. The “Queen Bee” is one of the Grimm’s shortest stories, but one that could be peeled back like an onion to reveal social, ecological, personal, and even spiritual meaning. Come today to hear Jack McKeon, a retired English teacher and expert on myth and story telling.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and great conversation. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

LIBERATION SPIRITUALITY - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-11-15 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Liberation Theology has been called “an interpretation of the Christian Faith out of the experience of the poor.” Today we will consider the possibility of a wider, inter-spiritual interpretation of Liberation Spirituality.
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

15TH ANNUAL UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST OUTREACH AUCTION
2015-11-14 18:30 - 22:00 | NJ
Saturday, November 14
6:30 PM
Central Unitarian Church
156 Forest Avenue
Paramus, NJ

What is the Outreach Auction?

This gala evening features a live auction as well as a tricky tray and is sponsored by three congregations in Bergen County:

Central Unitarian Church
Unitarian Society of Ridgewood
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades

with 100% of the proceeds going to selected charities. The charities are selected based on the impact they have on those in need in Bergen County, regardless of religious affiliation.

Our first Outreach Auction was held in 2000. Over the years, this brainchild of Central Unitarian Church has grown to include two additional congregations, and has raised more than $400,000 to support Bergen County charities. The auction raises money with bids from $10 to $1,000, demonstrating that when we work together, we are greater than the sum of our parts.

The auction is an annual event calling upon members, friends, businesses and the local community for support.

Tickets: $30 (Includes hors d’oeuvres, beverages, coffee, dessert, and a free sheet of tricky tray tickets valued at $15)
Selected Causes and Charities for 2015
(1) Providing Safe Housing
Center for Hope and Safety provides access to safe housing and services for women and children forced to ﬂee their homes due to domestic violence.
(2) Reducing Hunger
Center for Food Action provides food and homelessness prevention assistance at five locations.
(3) Escaping Poverty
Family Promise of Bergen County provides shelter for families, walk-in dinners for 120 people daily, transitional housing and other services.
(4) Advocacy for Children
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children.
(5) Assisting Children in Need
Holley Childcare and Development Center is a 55-bed residential treatment facility, serving children 5 to 12 years old who are emotionally handicapped as a result of abuse, neglect, poverty, abandonment or other circumstances.
(6) Providing Services for Children
Children’s Aid and Family Services provides human services and child welfare programs, including adoption and foster care for children who have been abused and traumatized.
For more information, contact uuoutreachauction@gmail.com.

15TH Annual Unitarian Universalist Outreach Auction
2015-11-14 | NJ
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2015
CENTRAL UNITARIAN CHURCH
15 FOREST AVENUE
PARAMUS, NJ 07652

This gala event has raised over $400,000 since 2000 for Bergen County Charities with 100% of the proceeds going to the selected charities. The 2015 charities include:

Shelter our Sisters
Center for Food Action
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Holley Childcare & Development Center
Children’s Aid and Family Services
Family Promise of Bergen County

The Outreach Auction features a live auction as well as a Trick Tray and includes live entertainment and hors d’oeuvres.

Be sure to SAVE THE DATE for this very important and worthwhile event that benefits our friends and neighbors in need in Bergen County. When we work together, we are greater than the sum of our parts!

For more information, contact uuoutreachauction@gmail.com.

HEALING THE WORLD - ONE INNER CHILD AT A TIME - Dr. Jay Kantor
2015-11-08 10:30 - 11:30
Please join us for today’s service led by special guest speaker, Dr. Jay Kantor. Each of us has an Inner Child, an aspect of our mind created in childhood that lasts a lifetime. If we were hurt in childhood, our Inner Child lives with that trauma until we heal it, no matter how long it takes. Healing and nurturing a wounded Inner Child – learning what it really means to love ourselves unconditionally – is the critical step in a person’s spiritual development we will explore today.
Dr. Jay Kantor holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University and began utilizing the Inner Child concept in 1990 to help people overcome the effects of inadequate parenting and parental abuse. Jay combines the use of Inner Child Psychology with other forms of energy and spiritual healing to help people overcome long-term emotional, psychological, and relationship problems, which have not responded to talk or drug therapies.
Bring a friend and stay for coffee and great conversation. We look forward to seeing you!
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

AUTUMN: EVENTIDE OF THE YEAR - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-10-18 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. We’re now well into Autumn, the “even-tide” of the year. Even though it’s a season of wondrous beauty and color, for many of us it is also a season of melancholy and a season of turning inward. But that turning inward is vital if we are to be renewed. Rev. Dodenhoff will share some thoughts today on this paradoxical season of Autumn.

Service Auction Event - Come Onna My House and Stromboli Together
2015-10-03 14:00 - 17:00 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States

THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS: ROOTS OF THE NEW SPIRITUALITY - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-09-20 10:30 - 12:00 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Polls continue to show that many people consider themselves “spiritual but not religious.” Today we’ll take a look at the 19th century Transcendentalist movement, which included such luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Throeau, and Margaret Fuller, and explore some of the ways in which it gave birth to the SBNR phenomenon.

UUCP WELCOME BACK PICNIC
2015-09-13 11:45 - 13:00 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
The annual UUCP Welcome Back Picnic will take place on Sunday, September 13, after the service.

The picnic will be at the Garret Lydecker House, 228 Grand Avenue, Englewood, NJ. Food and drink will be provided by the Board of Trustees; however, you are invited to contribute your favorite picnic dishes.

BEGINNINGS: ROSH HASHANAH - Deborah Singer Pires
2015-09-13 10:30 - 11:35 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP Co-President, Deborah Singer Pires. Today marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It is also Grandparent’s Day. The convergence of these two holidays reminds us of the importance of ritual and celebration in passing on traditions from one generation to the next.
Poster By: Bonnie Savitz

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ATTICUS? - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-09-06 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster By: Bonnie Savitz
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. Harper Lee’s new novel “Go Set A Watchman,” the sequel to her classic “To Kill A Mockingbird” has given the world an entirely new look at the iconic Atticus Finch. What does this “new” Atticus have to say to us today about issues of prejudice and race in America?

HONORING THE INHERENT WORTH AND DIGNITY OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES - Arlene Holpp Scalaa
2015-08-30 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster By: Bonnie Savitz
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP Co-President, Arlene Holpp Scalaa. This service will draw on the First Unitarian Universalist Principle to address ageism, discrimination against the young and the old. Internalized oppression, particularly among older adults, will be addressed.

SEEKING SECURITY - Judy Manton and Yonas Dule
2015-08-23 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by Judy Manton and special guest speaker, Yonas Dule. Yonas, a Christian, will share with us his source of strength and perseverance during his 10-year, 10-country journey from being accused of being a spy, beaten and tortured in the jails of both Eritrea and Ethiopia, to the trauma at the US-Mexican border, to his release from the detention and sponsorship by the Bergen County Sanctuary Committee.
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

THE CREATIVE LIFESTYLE - Cassandra Jennings-Hall
2015-08-09 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster By: Bonnie Savitz
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP member, Cassandra Jennings-Hall. Cassandra will describe how the creative force within her emerges in the form of artistic expression.

THE PROPHETHOOD OF ALL BELIEVERS - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-08-02 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster By: Bonnie Savitz
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. All of us are called, not just a certain few. Today we’ll be taking a look at UU theoogian James Luther Adams’ idea of the prophethood of all believers.

THAT'S BLASPHEMY! - Michael S. Meyers-Jouan
2015-07-26 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz
Please join us for today’s service led by UUCP member, Michael S. Meyers-Jouan. Come hear some thoughts on what is blasphemous, what’s not, and what we should do about it.

A SUMMER MEDITATION - Jonathan King
2015-07-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Come enjoy a meditation service that will help you get in touch with the deep resource within.
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

THE "S" WORD - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2015-07-05 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us for today’s service led by Rev. Paul Dodenhoff. It’s the word that many people don’t want to hear or that many people talk around rather than talk about. Today we’ll be talking about that age-old word, “sin”, and considering if it has a place in our spiritual vocabulary and just what it means for us as spiritual progressives.
Poster by: Bonnie Savitz

Learn the meaning of Passover and its relevance to us as Unitarian Universalists
2015-03-29 10:30 - 23:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Instead of our usual service format, we will experience the Jewish holiday of Passover with a traditional Seder. Learn the meaning of Passover and its relevance to us as Unitarian Universalists. Please bring a dish to share, but please do not bring food items made with pork, shellfish, or bread. Please be on time to be seated at the table in order to not disrupt the service after it has begun. All are welcome: bring family and friends.

25th. Aniversary Gala
2014-09-19 19:00 - 22:30 | NJ

Love Liberates: A Celebration of Maya Angelou
2014-06-13 19:30 - 21:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Please join us as we celebrate the life of author, poet and activist, Maya Angelou. Along with special music, we will be reading selections of her poems and prose works and sharing how this great teacher touched us individualy, and how her legacy of love, faith and activism calls us to do it in our own lives. Refreshments will be served.
Poster by Bonnie Savitz

"Spring, Rebirth, Creativity & the Goddess - Deborah Singer Pires & Arlene Holpp-Scala
2014-03-23 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
The spring equinox, when light and dark are in balance, marks the beginning of spring, a time of rebirth, renewal, growth and creativity. It is also time to celebrate the spring goddess of fertility and divinity of the radiant new light, bringing joy and blessing. Lets celebrate.
Poster by Bonnie Savitz

"Water, Water Everywhere:The Spirituality and Politics of Water" - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2014-03-16 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Poster by Bonnie Savitz
Water has held a spiritual significance in every culture and represents spiritual life. And In our everyday lives
we cannot exist without it. Yet, over 1 billion people on our planet do not have access to clean water on a daily
basis. Climate change, war, and corporate privatization of the water supply are making water an even more scarce – and expensive – commodity. What is our relationship to water as individuals and as people of faith? What is our responsibility to the planet and those people and other beings who share our planet? How can we bring the spiritual life-giving meaning of water into practical stewardship and service in our daily lives? You are invited to consider those questions with us today and to join us in observing a reimagined celebration of our UU Water Communion.

What Symbol are You? - Rev. Paul Dodenhoff
2014-03-02 10:30 - 11:30 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
Symbols and signs surround us constantly in our daily life, yet, many of then are meaningless or confusing to us. Today we consider the difference between and symbol and a sign, try to unpack what some of them mean, and examine why they are important in our lives.
Poster by Bonnie Savitz

Board Meeting
2013-12-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Englewood, NJ, 07631, United States
