Unitarian Fellowship Welcomes Barbara Gilday

Barbara Gilday will address the Unitarian Universalist Fellowingship on “Surviving Fundamentalism” at the West Sound Community Hall this Sunday, Jan 10, at 11 a.m.

Gilday, a registered counselor, Unitarian Universalist Minister, and a Toastmasters International Competition Winner,  says:

Although news headlines tell us every day about recession, scarcity, wars, etc., increasingly, multitudes of people are traveling to all corners of the earth and innumerable grass roots organizations are engaging in cooperative development with other cultures globally.

At home, we are building communities of co-operation- community gardens, ride share cars, barter systems, etc. We are reconsidering our use of limited resources in more earth friendly living. The result is good news in the form of relationships, stories and wisdom shared from culture to culture and people to people creating more sustainable communities. This is bringing to us a new kind of wealth enriching all of us in a myriad of ways, which will be reflected by new vitality in our spirits, our relationships, the environment and the world.

My life’s passion has been exploring connections, internally, in relationships and communities, and bringing various people and cultural groups together. I believe that we are all connected and that integration and healing on all levels, is a critical issue for all of us in this pivotal time of history.

There are so many creative ways to do this. Rather than thinking that we can’t do anything to change the world, I agree with current thinkers, who believe that grass roots efforts by thoughtful, ordinary people may be the most effective way to do so. Each of us has a role to play in this renaissance, no matter how large or small.                                                                                        (www.barbaragilday.com)

The Orcas Island Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets (usually) at 11:00 a.m. the second and fourth Sunday of each month, September through May, at the West Sound Community Hall, Deer Harbor Road at Crow Valley Road in West Sound on Orcas Island. All are invited.

From the  Orcas Unitarian Universalist website:

“With its historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion — that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves. We are a “non-creedal” religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed. UU congregations are self-governing. Authority and responsibility are vested in the membership of the congregation.”