Location: The Lingonberry We will celebrate the winter solstice with music with performances from various area musicians, including Suzanne Ernst on flute, members of Dames’ Rocket with recorder arrangements, Lalie Madriguera, Mike Ellingsen, Andrew and Eric Ellingsen, and various members of Burning Bright. There will be congregational singing, too! LIVESTREAMED VIA ZOOM: See Zoom Details … Continue reading Celebrating the Solstice with Song
Location: Phelp’s Park Shelter #1 Although summer is the time we often associate with leisure and vacation from our regular routines, we can easily get caught up in the busyness life always seems to offer. Every wisdom tradition tells us that what we need is right here. Let’s explore song and poetry that helps us … Continue reading Embracing the wasted day: Song and Poetry for Summer
Location: Phelps Park Shelter #1 During the pandemic, we’ve had limited opportunities to join our voices in song, instead having to sing along with a recording on Zoom. Let’s take advantage of the open air during our outdoor service to do something we haven’t done for years: a hymn sing! Come ready to pick your … Continue reading Hymn Sing
Join us via ZOOM as we listen to words from Angela Davis, Imani Perry, bell hooks, and Cornel West as they lead with love in the face of the ongoing struggle for justice. Service leader: Carolyn Corbin. All are welcome to join us at Sunday Fellowship either in-person (when available) or remotely via Zoom. We … Continue reading Lift Every Voice and Sing
Decorah UU members and friends will be sharing music of the season. Service Leaders: Karen Esterl and Ellen Rockne Everyone is welcome at our Sunday morning gathering. We meet at The Lingonberry, 218 W. Water Street, with our service at 10:00, followed by our social time at 11:00.
Jon Ailabouni and students will play music and accompany us in a few hymns. Jon will speak about jazz, and service leader Sue Otte will help us connect jazz and UU philosophy. Service Leader: Sue Otte Everyone is welcome at our Sunday morning gathering. We meet at The Lingonberry, 218 W. Water Street, with our … Continue reading UUs and Jazz
Music of the season with Karen Esterl, Sue Otte, Ellen Macdonald, Ellen Rockne and Otter Dreaming. Ellen Macdonald, service leader. Annastacia Cowles, greeter
Last week’s service focused on how music can be a spiritual experience. Let’s continue exploring that idea through a hymn sing! Come ready to pick your favorite songs from the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook, Singing the Living Tradition. Karen Esterl will facilitate, sharing the history of UU hymnody, reading texts that celebrate music, and walking folks … Continue reading Hymn Sing
At Decorah UU we say that we are a “spiritual community.” What does that really mean? What makes a person (or a community) spiritual? Beth Wahlberg will use her favorite musical Into the Woods to explore what it means to be on a spiritual journey and how we as UUs can help one another along … Continue reading Into the Woods: Lessons from Stephen Sondheim
