The Coffee House - the UU Fellowship Thread (churches, experience) - Page 38

Stairs In My House · #**371** 03-13-2007, 12:52 PM

Wow, I wonder if somebody at NPR reads this forum! This story was just on this morning, featuring an OWL class at a UCC church! Definitely worth a listen, but be prepared to shake your head sadly at the abstinence-only counterpoint (though there is a good laugh to be had with the Southern Baptist guy who uses sports and car anecdotes to teach his church's version of sex ed; a real gender stereotype extravaganza!).

des · #**372** 03-13-2007, 10:27 PM

Yep, there are "ears" over here, or so it seems. :-)
This was great. I'm not sure why it needed "balancing" since they already talked about it being a response to abstinence only sex ed. (And boy has the media covered that little darling!) I did get a kick out of the testostrone charged images too though. :-)

Maybe I'm wrong to think I wouldn't want to teach kids at church. :-)

--des

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Originally Posted by Stairs In My House

Wow, I wonder if somebody at NPR reads this forum! This story was just on this morning, featuring an OWL class at a UCC church! Definitely worth a listen, but be prepared to shake your head sadly at the abstinence-only counterpoint (though there is a good laugh to be had with the Southern Baptist guy who uses sports and car anecdotes to teach his church's version of sex ed; a real gender stereotype extravaganza!).

Stairs In My House · #**373** 03-13-2007, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by des

I did get a kick out of the testostrone charged images too though. :-)

I'm sure they were very progressive compared to his predecessor's fishing and woodworking analogies.

lilithu · #**374** 03-18-2007, 03:08 PM

Hey des, did you notice that my lovely new avatar has cat eyes?

She has a black tail that twitches around too, which you can't see in the pic.

(The tail came as a set with a pair of cat ears, but they made her look like a playboy bunny...erm, kitten... so the ears had to go away.)

des · #**375** 03-18-2007, 10:05 PM

No, but now that you mention it, maybe why I like her so well.

--des

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Originally Posted by lilithu

Hey des, did you notice that my lovely new avatar has cat eyes?

She has a black tail that twitches around too, which you can't see in the pic.

(The tail came as a set with a pair of cat ears, but they made her look like a playboy bunny...erm, kitten... so the ears had to go away.)

lilithu · #**376** 03-26-2007, 10:23 AM

Just to let yall know, our President Bill Sinkford is meeting with Congressman Pete Stark from Cali today. I don't know if they've met before, but I'm pretty sure it will be the first time they've met since Stark made the news a couple of weeks ago declaring that he is a Unitarian who does not believe in a supreme being.

Not sure why I'm thrilled by this meeting, but I am, so I thought I'd share it wit yall.

lilithu · #**377** 03-27-2007, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Stairs In My House

Wow, I wonder if somebody at NPR reads this forum! This story was just on this morning, featuring an OWL class at a UCC church! Definitely worth a listen, but be prepared to shake your head sadly at the abstinence-only counterpoint (though there is a good laugh to be had with the Southern Baptist guy who uses sports and car anecdotes to teach his church's version of sex ed; a real gender stereotype extravaganza!).

Hmm.... we keep getting press on this. Maybe we should make a separate thread just for our sex ed stuff.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/...s/16974911.htm

BrandonE · #**378** 03-28-2007, 09:35 AM

Monday night we completed a 12 week course on The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck. It was a really great course. It was a class of about 12 people with two facilitators, taught from a book that was developed specifically for the purpose (though I can't recall the name, as we just used handouts and not the book). It did a lot to build community and bring the classmembers closer together, and both the book and the class offered really great spiritual insight. I'd read the book about 8 years ago, but I swear I must have been asleep, as I recall only the earliest parts of it (maybe I never even finished it before...). However, the book was EXACTLY what I needed at this point in my journey.

Fantastic.

BrandonE · #**379** 04-05-2007, 09:25 PM

I led our "New UU" class (membership orientation) last night and really really enjoyed it. It's always great to have new people coming in and here their stories. We've grown a lot in the last year. I've just been attending a year, but it's been a big one. If all of this current class joins, it would be >10% increase in our membership! We have about 103 members now, and there are 14 folks in the class.