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Adult Religious Education at First Unitarian

Compassionate Communication Group

Hybrid meetings will be on first and third Tuesdays at 7pm in the Common Room. For the summer, we will meet by Zoom only. Contact Suzanne King nvcsuz@gmail.com for Zoom link. During our practices, we learn to transform the thinking, language and moralistic judgments that keep you from the enriching relationships and start to resolve conflicts with more ease, learn to ask for what you want in ways that ensure you’ll receive it, begin to hear the true needs of others with less effort, strengthen your personal and professional relationships and start living to your full potential. Everyone is welcome. No prior experience needed.

Film Showing: Thursday, August 15 at 7pm in the Common Room. This film series is facilitated by Sharon Conlon and Elaine Wells. This month we will show The Occupation of the American Mind. Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading observers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film explores how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces, often with very different motives, to shape American media coverage of the conflict in Israel's favor. From the U.S.-based public relations campaigns that emerged in the 1980s to today, the film provides a sweeping analysis of Israel's decades-long battle for the hearts, minds, and tax dollars of the American people in the face of widening international condemnation of its increasingly right-wing policies.

First Unitarian Book Club: The August meeting will be an in-person outdoor "Potluck Barbecue" gathering on Monday, August 26 at 5pm at the home of Bob Fischbach. This will serve as our "Kickoff Event" for the 2024-25 year. This gathering will include an informal discussion and sharing of what individual members read over the summer. We encourage guests or "newbies" to join us or just stop over to check us out. Further details will be forthcoming.

Questions? Reach out to Dave Richardson at drichardson821@gmail.com or 402-212-5054.

For those looking ahead: our September book selection is An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin. That discussion will take place on Monday, September 30th. Everyone is welcome to join the Book Club.

The Anxious Generation Book Study Group: Jonathan Haidt's newest book explores how changes in the modern experience of childhood are increasing rates of mental illness in young people and what society, schools, and parents can do about it. We will read it over three months and meet to discuss at 9:30am on the 4th Sunday of the month. Our first meeting will be September 22nd when we will discuss parts 1 and 2. On October 27th we will discuss part 3, and on November 24th we will discuss part 4. Questions? Email Jody Rowan (formerly Petrow) at jodysrowan@gmail.com

Insight (Mindfulness) Meditation: Insight Meditation hosted by the Mindfulness Outreach Initiative (a Nebraska 501c3) will meet on most Sundays at 4pm in the Common Room or the Merritt Lounge. The meditation will last about 40 minutes and there will be time for conversation and questions as well. Church member Mark Wiesman will host or Dave Reed. If you have questions, please contact Mark at oceanica3@cox.net or the church office. Click here to learn more.

Other Classes

First Steps is a class for visitors and we welcome everyone to attend. Pathways is a class for those interested in church membership. Please click here for information about the next sessions.

First Unitarian Church is proud to have partnered with Richard Holland to bring the Holland Lecture Series to Omaha.

The series is now discontinued. If you need information about it, please contact the church office.