Halfway between Buddha's Awakening (Dec. 8) and Christmas (Dec. 25), we'll ponder what these two savior-teachers have in common and how they differ.

Bring your questions and comments. Tea and treats too!

Revisit Ted’s sermon about Jesus and Buddha: Two Messengers of Light

After the most recent election, how do progressives begin again?

What can we learn from this election?

There will be plenty to time to share and exchange views with free tea and lemonade.

What is democracy? How does it work, can it work, and should it work?

History has examples, good and bad. Plato, Rosseau, Hobbes, Jefferson, Locke, Mills, Marx, Dewey. Relevance to today and the future. Trump and authoritarianism.

Rev. Ted E. Tollefson will be talking about the healing gifts of Universalism for our divisive time.

And we'll serve tea to make sure that all are awake!

Reverend Ted Tollefson will be talking about the many kinds of love that animate our lives and bring us new life. And we'll serve tea to make sure that all are awake!

Let’s talk about the full range of dreaming: night dreams, day dreams, twilight dreams and the Big Dreams that help establish religions. There will be helpful hints on how to remember, record and work with your dreams.

And we'll serve tea to make sure that all are awake!

Sometimes the world stops making sense. Sometime our ordinary experience is infused with wonder and delight. What are the options when we are facing Mystery?

Bring your questions and your answers and stories. A lively discussion and sharing will be an important part of this service.

Feeling and expressing gratitude is a regular feature of many ways of being religious or “spiritual.” But where does it come from? What are the options for making gratitude a more regular feature of our lives?

Bring your questions and your answers and stories of being grateful. A lively discussion and sharing will be an important part of this service.

Poetic reflections on how to find and claim our place in turning seasons. We'll practice some savoring together. There will be time for questions and comments, too.

Rev. Ted Tollefson will share news, views, history, and doubts on his religious/spiritual journey.

Bring your faith, your doubts, and your questions. If you have answers, bring those too!
This talk is intended to empower 2 or 3 of our members to do a "This I Believe" talk next month.

A talk with a shared inquiry. We'll be using a *Secret Process* to move from individual to shared understanding.

Possible responses to this month's topic question:

• Sun

• Fun

• Vacation

• Outdoors

• R&R

• G&G

What does "home" mean to you?

And how does the simple act of "Coming Home" illuminate the landscape of what it means to "be true"?

Reflections on what really matters. Bring your faith, your doubts, and your questions. If you have answers, bring those too!

Many people in our culture are divided about what Easter means.

I'll offer some new Unitarian views of Easter, beginning with the insight that Easter marks the death of the historical Jesus AND the birth of the mythological Christ. All answers are questioned here. Bring your faith, your doubts, and your questions.

If you have answers, bring those too!

We are now entering the last full month of summer.

It's time when people visit our congregations and when friends and family ask what we do on Sunday mornings. This practical talk will give you up to 10 ways to respond when someone pops the question about our Unitarian Universalist tradition.

The first way can fit inside your wallet!

The Supreme Court has recently ruled to permit athletic coaches to offer a prayer of thanks after winning a game. Does this violate the "separation of church and state" that was so dear to many of America's Founding Generation? It turns out that both the US Constitution (Amendment #1) and the Bible speak to both sides of this issue.

My talk aims to disentangle the threads and gives you a chance to vote on hypothetical cases to find out where you stand and why.

Three friends from the Red Wing AA community share news of their journeys from addiction to recovery. Join us for a thoughtful presentation and discussion.

We'll explore together how tending a garden and wild foraging can restore lively, healing connections between ourselves & the natural world around us.

The discussion was integrated into the presentation. Come prepared to share your thoughts and experiences.

Please wear a mask and maintain social distancing!

Join us to celebrate "Summer's End.”

Rev. Ted Tollefson will give an inspiring talk with a discussion integrated into the presentation.

Rather than a technical discussion of "Critical Race Theory" which currently seems like a landmine in our culture wars, we're going to have an open conversation about race in America.

I will present 3 ideas about how our constructions of race keep reshaping our vision of what America is and what we aspire to become. There will be room for all those present to share their views. I'll be using the "Pizza method" of preaching yet again: I deliver one slice at a time and we chew on it (talk about it) together.

Bring your thoughts, memories, and your hopes to share.

We live caught between what is and what ought to be. Our ethical life begins when we learn to work skillfully with that tension.

Where will you choose to focus your moral attention in the months ahead?

Where can you make a difference without causing harm?

Join us on Zoom at 10am

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• Do Not “Sign In”
  just hit Launch Meeting and then Join Meeting.

• You’ll want computer audio

• and to allow Zoom to use your computer video camera.

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Join us with Gary Stone to discuss such topics as:

• Jeopardy

• QAnon

• faces on Mars

• apophenia

• truth, lies, and meaning

• We Good They Bad - We Bad They Good

• riots

• Trump

• stories

• moral language

• Gnosticism

• And other Epistemological questions.

Join Us on Zoom at 10am

• You should be able to enter without the password above. Just keep hitting the blue button.

• DON’T "Sign in" - just hit "Launch Meeting" and then "Join Meeting.”

• You’ll want “computer audio”

• and to “allow Zoom to use your computer video camera.”

• Need some more info/help?

hosted by Donn Leaf.

Who or what is "God?”
Is God necessary for a good life?
Join us for a lively discussion!

Brief talks on our UU faith by leading ministers and lay-leaders hosted by Peter Jacobs.

Join us for a lively discussion! Healthy refreshments to follow.

Come for 99 cent tacos; stay for lively conversation and storytelling.

Shared reflections on how to remember, record, understand and befriend our dreams: night-dreams, day-dreams, twilight dreams and Big Dreams.

Rev. Ted wrote his master's thesis on dreamwork, trained with Jeremy Taylor and Stephon Williams. He has taught dreamwork in Minnesota since 1980.

"Human beings are the only animals that dream 24 hours per day"
Carl Jung

Check out the “10 Basic Questions” worksheet and the “Remembering Your Dreams” how-to.

hosted by  Donn Leaf. 

Who or what is "God"?   Is God  necessary for a good life? 
Join us for a lively discussion!

Come for 99 cent tacos; stay for lively conversation and storytelling.

Come for 99 cent tacos; stay for lively conversation and storytelling.