Reading:“ROBERT’S RULES OF RITUALS” While UU minister Robert Fulgham is best known for the best seller, Everything I know I learned in Kindergarten, his most ‘religious’ book is From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives (1995) Some of his “Propositions:” ‘Rituals are timed by beats of the heart, not ticks of the clock.Most of our major holidays are connected to…

opening song”YOU, ME, AND THE UNIVERSE” -Words and Music by A. SEVERANCE CHORUS: YOU, ME, AND THE UNIVERSEYOU, ME, AND THE WORLDSPIRIT OF LIFE,LOVE, AND HAPPINESSDWELLS IN EACH BOY AND GIRL LONG LIVE THE WEB WE CALL LIFELONG LIVE MOTHER EARTH, TOOCELEBRATE LIFE RELIGIOUSLYCELEBRATE ME AND YOU CHORUS: SING SONGS OF ALL RELIGIONSGODS AND GODDESSES ALLFIND THE MEANINGS DEEP WITHINBY HEEDING OUR…

A 19th century Protestant missionary was trying to convert a Taoist farmer in China, but was having great difficulty imparting all the rules and doctrines of Christianity, especially the part about nonbelievers God sending them to Hell. ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ the farmer asked.‘No,’ said the missionary, ‘not if you did not…