Until recently, the destructive impact of emotional trauma, particularly during childhood, was grossly underestimated. Today, we know this form of wounding is widespread and demonstrates long-term impacts on mental, physical and spiritual well-being. We will examine the nature of emotional trauma, its corrosive effects on well-being, and new, innovative treatment approaches that help heal the wounded soul.
Philip Chard is a practicing psychotherapist. He writes an award-winning weekly column titled "Out of My Mind,” that can be found on his webpage. He is author of The Healing Earth, which won the 1995 Midwest Publishers Award, and Nature’s Ways, which examines the spiritual aspects of nature interaction. Philip is a contributing writer to Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, has been a guest expert on ABC Television’s 20/20, and has presented at the Brookings Institution, among many other venues.
9:50 – Join for informal conversation (optional)
10:00 – Service begins
11:00 – Coffee hour
Report from Alliance for Nuclear Accountability: Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War, Protect our Communities.
Pamela Richard held the position of Office Manager for Peace Action of Wisconsin in Milwaukee for years. She is self-taught by working on many volunteer projects in lobbying and advocacy for peace, freedom and meeting human needs. She is on the board of the United Nations Association of Milwaukee. Pam is a member of the Disarm Committee of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She is a board member of Sri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, a watchdog group on the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory. Pam is on the board of the national coalition-Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. She is on the Milwaukee Advocacy Team of the Friend’s Committee on National Legislation. Pam is a supporting member of Milwaukee Veterans for Peace and on the board of Welfare Warriors.
9:50 – Join for informal conversation (optional)
10:00 – Service begins
11:00 – Coffee hour
Sarah Oelberg has been a special education teacher, has written special ed. curriculum for our U.S. Office of Education, was a faculty member at Yeshiva University in New York and at NYU, and trained special ed. teachers in Iowa. She followed her heart as the first in her six-generation Unitarian family to become a UU minister. After serving churches in Nebraska and Minnesota, she retired in 2001 and now she frequently speaks at UCN. She and husband Gerald raised four children and have six grand- and four great-grandchildren.
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10:00 – Service begins
11:00 – Coffee hour
Join us, Sunday July 19th for an interactive, intergenerational worship service inspired by the life and work of scientist, educator and Unitarian Universalist Clyde Tombaugh. Adventurers of all ages are welcome!
Rev. Erik David Carlson (he, him, his) is a life-long UU who has held leadership positions at every level of our Association, including the Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Central Midwest District (now
MidAmerica) and the UUA Board of Trustees. Rev. Carlson has served 17 of the last 20 years in UU congregations and is currently a hospital chaplain working in the Ascension Health system while completing
graduate studies at Northwestern University.
Prior to ordination, Rev. Carlson served as intern minister for the three New Orleans area UU congregations who were struggling with
rebuilding their churches and communities in the post-Katrina period.
His work on technology and UU evangelism was a featured essay in the 2008 Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press publication Reverend X: How
Generation-X Ministers are Shaping Unitarian Universalism, and his leadership during the 2020 protests in Kenosha was the subject of a
national piece aired on HBO’s Vice News.
An accomplished songwriter, Rev. Carlson often performs original music in the UU worship services and enjoys his growing collection of stringed instruments. He is dedicated to the spiritual growth of our young people. Rev. Carlson lives in South Milwaukee with his wife, the Rev. Kimberlee Tomczak Carlson, Minister of Faith Formation at the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, his 13-year-old son Miles and two
opinionated felines.
He is looking forward to meeting everyone and beginning this
exciting collaborative relationship with Unitarian Church North.
9:50 – Join for informal conversation (optional)
10:00 – Service begins
11:00 – Coffee hour
A comedian once said, "In other churches kids learned the 10 commandments. But I was raised Unitarian, so we learned the 10 suggestions." How do we UUs actually look at these commandments, and are they perhaps in need of revision? (That's not just a rhetorical question.)
How did they develop historically, why are there three different numbering systems, and why do some people want them on public property? (And how many of those same people can actually recall more than 3 or 4?)
Come this Sunday to have these--and more--questions answered. Our minister emeritus, Rev. Tony Larsen, will be leading this service.
Tony Larsen was our minister here at Unitarian Church North for 4 years (2019-2023), having served before that at Olympia Brown UU in Racine for 40+ years. He was raised Catholic, and studied to be a Catholic priest for 10 years before being ordained to the Unitarian Universalist ministry. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Maryknoll College in 1971, his M.A. in theology from Maryknoll School of Theology in 1973, and his D.Min from Meadville/Lombard Theological School in 1975.
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10:00 – Service begins
11:00 – Coffee hour
The meaning of worship is
to be shaped by
what is of worth.
We gather together in spiritual community because we need constant reminders of what matters most in life. In a world of heartbreak and dehumanization, our congregations and communities call us to our better selves. We learn to live with more wisdom, more connection, and more compassion.
Our Worship Services are weekly reflections that weave together our own thoughts and experiences with music, beauty, poetry, and words that both comfort and challenge. Our programs for all ages inspire and awaken us to our capacities to make a difference in our own lives and in the world.
