A Unitarian Universalist Community

Author Doug Slagle

Sunday, December 22, 2019, “Around a World of Holidays: Hanukkah in Israel”

(c) Rev. Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Reserved Please click here to listen to the message. See below to read it. After the death of Alexander the Great in 312 BCE, his vast empire… Continue Reading →

Sunday, December 15, 2019, “Around a World of Holidays: Winter Solstice – or Dongzhi Festival – in China”

(c) Rev. Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Reserved Click here to listen to the message. See below to read it. Sometime around 1500 BCE, ancient people living in today’s Britain finished an immense ring… Continue Reading →

Sunday, December 8, 2019, “Around a World of Holidays: St. Lucia Day in Sweden”

(c) Rev. Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Reserved On June 5th, 1944, at 9:30 in the evening, at an airbase north of London, 200 paratroopers took off in unarmed C-47 planes.  The paratroopers had… Continue Reading →

Sunday, December 1, 2019, Music Director Michael Tacy Speaks, “The ‘C’ Word – Church”

(c) All Rights Reserved, Michael Tacy Click here to listen to the message.

Sunday, November 17, 2019, “The First Unitarian Universalist Principle: Our Version of ‘Imageo Dei'”

(c) Rev. Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Reserved A minister began her message by asking the congregation to raise their hands if any of them have enemies.  Many hands went up.  She then asked… Continue Reading →

Sunday, November 10, 2019, “The Second Unitarian Universalist Principle: Equality vs. Equity”

(c) Rev. Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills Click here to listen to the message. See below to read it. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of… Continue Reading →

Sunday, November 3, 2019, “The Third Unitarian Universalist Principle and Expansion of Our Souls”

(c) Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Reserved Saint Augustine was a fourth and fifty century theologian who had a big impact on Christian and western thinking.  He saw the world in strictly Manichean –… Continue Reading →

Sunday, October 27, 2019, “Fantasy Reality”

(c) Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Re Key West is one of my favorite places to visit because of its generally relaxed and open minded culture – in of course a tropical setting.  And… Continue Reading →

Sunday, October 20, 2019, “Are We Having Fun Yet? Let’s Be Romantic!”

(c) Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Reserved How does one talk about sex in church?  If the past is any guide, you  don’t.  How do the major world religions address the same topic?  Judaism,… Continue Reading →

Sunday, October 13, 2019, Coffeehouse Service, “Are We Having Fun Yet? It’s OK Not to Act Your Age!”

(c) Doug Slagle, Minister to the Gathering at Northern Hills, All Rights Reserved Some of you may have read the Biblical stories about the life of King David.  Whether the stories are myth or true, that doesn’t matter.  What’s important… Continue Reading →

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