Regular messages from the EUU officers – what’s happening in EUU and personal reflections.
EUU President Karen Kyker
Retreat. Revive. Reconnect. Religion. Remember. Rejoice! Regret. Relieve. Relive. Respond. Retire. Rewire. Respire. Rebegin. Revisit. Review. Relight. Regroup. Repeat. Relief. Restart. Return. …Prague. Europe. Earth. Here. Now. …Reflect. Renew. Retreat.
We are one week away from the opening of our Spring 2022 EUU … read more.
EUU President Karen Kyker
“So, what is ‘UU’?” That’s the question that people responded to in ‘elevator speeches’ last Saturday, as the final activity after spending about 4 hours together, listening, sharing, and querying. In our recent UU Basics workshop (online), we … read more.
EUU President Karen Kyker
EUU has existed for almost 42 years, and this month, I’ve stepped into the role of president, as the 26th in an inspiring and guiding lineage of volunteers, following Tony Zamparutti (thanks for your recent leadership, Tony!). Thankfully, I am surrounded by … read more.
As I look back on my last year as president, I would like to express my deep gratitude to everyone who kept EUU running in 2021.
My predecessor, Carolyn Burlingame-Goff, started the wonderful tradition of yearly volunteer awards. At the November Annual General Meeting, we awarded several … read more.
By Karen Kyker, Dec. 15, 2021
On Sunday, November 21, 38 people gathered online for the annual general meeting (“AGM”) of the EUU. At the meeting, we elected officers for 2022, discussed the Treasurer’s Report, made minor amendments to our EUU bylaws, thanked some of our … read more.
EUU President Tony Zamparutti
We had another wonderful online retreat last month. Rev. Diane Rollert led us into the topic of community, and we continued this path by working together to create our Sunday service. You can read impressions of the retreat here. For me, … read more.
EUU President Tony Zamparutti
I, perhaps like many of you, was hoping for a simple story in 2021: everyone is vaccinated and the Covid pandemic ends.
The news, however, has been bewildering. Across the Europe Union and Switzerland, about 70% of adults are now vaccinated against Covid, … read more.
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Summer is here (in a restrained way in Scandinavia), more and more people are vaccinated, and many of us are facing opening up… I’m sure I’m not alone in reflecting about emerging from almost a year and half of physical isolation. I wonder what the … read more.
This issue brings you articles from last month’s fascinating spring retreat on the ethics of what we eat. As you’ll read, the retreat theme has stimulated lots of thought and discussion.
During the retreat, I remembered visits as a child to my father’s village in Italy, … read more.
As I write this, it’s the first day of spring. In Brussels, the days are longer, the first blossoms have come out – but it’s not yet time to store the wool scarves and gloves at the back of the closet. We need patience. And … read more.
