May 30 -- "Now News Is Good News" by Dr. Fred (aka Doc) Heide. This talk will discuss how spiritual traditions, poets and pyschotherapeutic approaches have endorsed present-centeredness. Research on the value of the here and now will be overviewed. Learn how to distinguish between living in the moment and living for the moment as Doc Heide also shares his own personal reflections on the advantages of being present-centered. Doc Heide is the founder of the American Folklore Theater in Door County and is an associate professor at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco.

June 6 -- "Pet Blessing" by Carrie Arnold and Therese Barry-Tanner. Calling all pets, calling all pets!!! Many Unitarian Universalist congregations celebrate their furry and feathered friends in an annual pet blessing. We’re trying to bring this back as a tradition. The plan is to be outside in our green space and we’re hoping to be blessed with good weather as well!

June13 -- "Reflections on the Life and Poetry of Rumi" By Therese Barry-Tanner.

June 20th -- "In Search of an Honest Religion" by The Rev. Phillips Sweet. Garry Wills in his 2006 book "What Jesus Meant" makes a case for Jesus being the enemy of religion because he opposed just about every form of religion we know. Ralph Waldo Emerson called the Unitarians "corpse-cold". Are these remarks true? A reflection.