All-Ages Worship (4 December 2022)

Please join us this Sunday (4 December 2022) at 11:00 AM for “Would You Believe?” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at Al

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Middle and High School Youth Religious Education (4 December 2022)

This Sunday (4 December 2022) — “Understanding the Bible” Adapted for this age group from a curriculum based on the book by John Buehrens (Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seeker

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Children’s Religious Education (4 December 2022)

This Sunday (4 December 2022) — Moses and the 10 Commandments This week, the class will hear the story of Moses and the 10 Commandments. They will talk about the Commandments as a covenant and work on

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Online Adult Religious Education — 4 December 2022

Please join us on Sunday (4 December 2022) as we continue our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM for “WhUU Dat” via Zoom and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger and continuing our

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Zoom Lunch Now on Tuesdays (6 December 2022)

Please join us next Tuesday (6 December 2022) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch. Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

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The Importance of December

I love December because it is a fresh way to stop being shackled to the past. Choosing to have difficult conversations with yourself allows a freedom to reassess a true sense of  who you are and your

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Before You’re Tired

It’s okay to rest before you are tired. Rest is a necessary precursor to action. -Jess Hunt (CLF)   Rest before you are tired today.

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Homeless this Christmas by James Wynbrandt— Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival 2022-‘23

James Wybrandt wrote and performed Homeless This Christmas in 2013 to benefit the National Coalition for the homeless. Yesterday was the first Friday of December.  Here in McHenry County, Illinois tha

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Stepping into the Polar Night

It is like living in a lighthouse, surrounded by nothing but the wild, often unwelcoming nature. You merely need to take three steps outside the door to remember where you are. Locals have a saying ab

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What UUSC’s Partners Had to Say About COP27

The 27th annual Conference of Parties (COP27) was held from November 6 to 1 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Seven UUSC partners attended the conference to advocate durable solutions to climate change adapt

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Making Classic Toys that Teach

LeeValley.com has copies of my book, Making Classic Toys that Teachhttps://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/books-and-dvds/75487-making-classic-toys-that-teach?item=49L2743 in stock and ready to shi

Beacon Behind the Books: Meet Nicole-Anne Keyton, Assistant Editor

In undergrad, when I started working on my creative writing minor, I spotted a course on book publishing in the English department’s catalog. I’d always been “interested” in publishing, and I suppose

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Our Fascination with Con Artists

A century before there was the Tinder Swindler, Ana Delvy or Elizabeth Holmes there was Baron von Koenig, and Count Adalbert de la Ramee and Maurice Schwabe. The period in which they operated was cons

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The End of Title 42 Will Not End Injustice

Even as we celebrate the demise of one cruel anti-asylum policy, new threats to migrant justice emerge to take its place.

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Christianity is basically an epic mistake . . . and the time is right to correct it

In 2020, during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, I wrote a version of the piece you’ll find below. But, for various reasons, I eventually decided to take it down in order to rework i

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What If

I started writing my own music sometime in high school. I wish I held  on to those starters. My pattern was to write something and then let go of it soon after thinking it was good enough to keep. I …

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Prayer for Generosity

Prayer for the Week of December 6, 2022 - Prayer for Generosity Gracious Wonderment, may we find ourselves amid life’s abundant worries, cares, and griefs aware of the choices we have in those moments

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Ease and Leisure

We were created not for labor, but for rest. For ease and leisure. To enjoy the wind in the trees, the smell of honeysuckle while sitting on the front porch. Taking in the beauty we didn’t have a hand

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Ella Fitzgerald’s Frosty the Snowman— Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival 2022-‘23

                                                                      Frosty the Snowman  performed by Ella Fitzgerald. Frosty the Snowman, today’s entry into our Holidays Music Festival, touches seve

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FUUN Programming for Children & Youth 12/4

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