In the sense in which we can ever be said to be at home in the world, we are at home not through dominating or explaining, or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.
— Milton Mayeroff

Tuesday Discussion Group, July 17, 10:15 am, How do we best get to our goals? We must articulate our truths. Can incivility ever be tolerated in a democracy? Is violence ever useful? Join us for these meaningful discussions led by Liz Stone. The group will meet at the Quinta Loreto restaurant, Loreto 15.

Our discussion group is very popular and there are some people who cannot make it on a Tuesday morning. If you are interested in starting a second group on another day and time, please contact Liz at elmendorf7@aol.com.

Wednesday Lunch Bunch, July 18, 1:30pm, Garambullo, Animas 46.

Women's breakfast group meets at Oso Azul, Zacateros 17 at 9:30 each Saturday morning. All women are warmly invited. Men meet in the Jardin at 9:30am in front of the Parroquia and decide where to eat. The regular guys would like some new faces to join them!

Circle Cena - The Circle Cena is a social gathering for people who meet at a host's house once a month for either a pot luck of botanas and dessert or a full course dinner. The hosts coordinate the event as to how many guests they can accommodate and who brings what food to share. As the groups change from cena to cena, it’s a wonderful opportunity to get to know other UUs.

The next Circle Cena is Monday, August 6. Please sign up as host or guest at the Welcome Table after Sunday service or contact Arlena Lawrence, lawrencearlena@yahoo.com.

At this week’s Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Service, the Rev. Ron Phares explores the UU perspective on what happens when we die and what that means to our living. Is there an afterlife? Dust to dust? Reincarnation? Or... something else...

If we are granted but one breath, we can be assured of only one thing: that there will be a last breath. If nothing else, death is reliable. What is less reliable is what happens to you when you die. It is comforting to have faith in a heavenly paradise post incarnation. But the rationalist in us might flinch at such a gospel. It is also comforting to have some sense of certainty that we simply cease and our remains transform back into other forms of matter. But is that actually comprehensive enough? Is that, in fact, an understanding based on a incomplete data set?

Rev. Phares is drawn to perennialism, the way of theological engagement that sees resonances in the essences of most wisdom traditions and faith ways. He is interested the insights of those traditions that bring us into a more harmonious connection with the underlying, pervasive, original, and unfolding integration of all phenomena. Consciousness, mindfulness, the nature of time, and collective liberation are among his favored topics of reflection.

He was born and raised in Phoenix and received a B.A. in Religious Studies from Arizona State University and a Master’s in International Management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School for International Management. Rev. Phares walked into his first UU church in 2002, where he heard Henry Miller read as a sacred text and knew he’d found a spiritual home. He attended Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, TX, and was ordained in the Unitarian Universalist tradition in 2012 by the Mountain Vista Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Tucson, where he currently serves. He is the father of two seven-year-old girls and a devoted husband. He is also a sometimes an in-house contextual poet for an architecture firm in Phoenix.

The UU Fellowship meets every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Posada de la Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15, and welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientation, and gender identity. For information about our Children’s Sunday Program, contact us at chris.chase1955@gmail.com.. The meeting room is wheelchair accessible. For more information, visit our website at uufsama.org