News from EUU to members and friends.
EUU President Karen Kyker
Brown and yellow leaves on wet pavement, and that odor rising from damp vegetation – it’s time for a Fall Retreat! We’re all so very much looking forward to gathering together again, both onsite at Mittelwihr and online from home! So much … read more.
COMBINED SESSIONS 1 and 2: 2–5:30 pm Excursion to Albert Schweitzer Center and Home
A Pilgrimage to Rediscover and Honor Albert Schweitzer’s Engagement for Peace
John Eichrodt
Discovering and honoring Albert Schweitzer, his theological quest and life-long action for peace. This will include a session at the … read more.
Workshop leader: John Eichrodt
Note: This workshop will last all afternoon and extend through both workshop sessions. Participants will return to the retreat center at 5:30 pm.
The workshop is intended to be in the form of a pilgrimage to Albert Schweitzer’s home. It takes place on … read more.
“Nonviolence and the Powers that Be” is the seventh chapter in Alastair McIntosh’s book Spiritual Activism. I decided to savor it over coffee on a Sunday morning, during our fellowship’s summer break from UU services. The timing was perfect; the chapter, co-written with Matt … read more.
During EUU retreats, workshops have been our special time together in smaller groups. They seek to give us an opportunity to focus on what matters to us as persons, to help us not only to grow spiritually, but also emotionally, psychologically, physically, and intellectually – … read more.
Cultivating Peace is life practice. Our speaker, Alastair McIntosh, brings his leadership on the practice and the real-world impact to our next retreat.
Europe is experiencing the greatest threat to peace on our soil since WWII, and many of us have personal relationships with those … read more.
Mittelwihr
Our fall 2022 retreat will be held at a site EUU has visited many times in the past: the Centre Le Mittel in Mittelwihr in Alsace, France, in the Rhine valley. Mittelwihr is south of Strasbourg and close to the city of Colmar, known for … read more.
by Roland Siebeke
A survey to help us prepare for the 2022 EUU Fall Retreat, created by Emily Searle-White and Karen Kyker, yielded 76 responses. The results are very useful to us in our planning process.
Summary
61 respondents declared their intention to attend the … read more.
(Updated Aug 15)
In response to the pandemic, many EUU and fellowship activities moved online. You can still participate in some events via Zoom. This can be a good opportunity to ‘travel’ to another fellowship for a service.
Here is a round-up of upcoming services and other meetings. … read more.
EUU President Karen Kyker
Welcome to summer!
In this Unifier edition, you’ll find information about our upcoming IN-PERSON Fall Retreat… our first official EUU in-person gathering since Fall 2019, three years ago. I wonder what it was like at the first ever EUU retreat, over 40 years … read more.
