News about retreats and other EUU events.
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.
First Impressions
Just like the first time I went to a UUFP service, this first EUU retreat felt like arriving in a very familiar, warm place. The workshop on Saturday about reading during harrowing times was a great discussion: Lara’s words were food for thought, Snail … read more.
This online workshop was held as part of the semi-annual EUU retreat in the session from 11:30am to 1pm. There were 8 people in attendance: John Eichrodt, the host, Gevene Hertz, Roland Siebeke, Christine Hinterlang, Sherif Soliman, Alinda Helleman, Wolfgang Jantz and your rapporteur, Peter … read more.
Our first two EUU Virtual Pesach Seders in 2020 and 2021 were both a success, so I am holding one again this year on Friday 15 April starting at 17:30 CET.
A Pesach seder is a ritual telling of the story of the exodus from Egypt. … read more.
