Land Acknowledgments, what do they really do? Are they enough, or is more needed to address the past that still affects us today.
Kate Erickson is a Member of the Oneida Nation and a frequent speaker on Wisconsin Native American history. She is a faculty member of the History Department of MATC, where she serves as a Member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Grant Committee. Kate also serves as an Alternate Board Member of the Wisconsin Indian Education Association.
9:50 – Join for informal conversation (optional)
10:00 – Service begins
11:00 – Coffee hour
Last month I heard a news commentator, who was getting fed up with all the negative comments about Joe Biden, say, "He isn't perfect, but he's a real mensch." I hadn't heard anyone described that way for a long time, so thought I would explore what a mensch is, and isn't, and how we can achieve menschness.
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.
9:50 – Join for informal conversation (optional)
10:00 – Service begins
11:00 – Coffee hour
The meaning of worship is
to be shaped by
what is of worth.
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