Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

06/11/2026

Here's the latest KUUF Digest:

There will be two speakers. Kate Larlee will describe how she uses her fully trained service dog, She will also describe the differences betweenemotional support animals and service dogs, and the legal rights associated with each.

06/11/2026

This Sunday, June 14, KUUF presents the Forum, "How Emotional Support and Service Animals Are Used."

This Forum will discuss the variety of ways that animals are used to help people.

There will be two speakers. Kate Larlee will describe how she uses her fully trained service dog, She will also describe the differences between
emotional support animals and service dogs, and the legal rights associated with each.

Larlee grew up in Maine. After teaching theatre for 17 years as an adjunct professor in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she attended law school at Michigan State University and worked at Elder Law of Michigan for three years before accepting her current position at Legal Services of Northern Michigan.

The second speaker, Andrea Senyk, will describe how she uses rabbits as emotional support animals for nursing home residents and senior
citizens. Emotional support animals don't have specific training and are not permitted inside public establishments.

A third category is a therapy animal that is trained to go to specific places, like nursing homes or to support crime victims during courtroom
testimony. One of Senyk’s rabbits, Cadbury, was recently certified as a therapy rabbit. He brings comfort and joy to everyone he meets, including nursing home residents, students during stressful final exam weeks, and many friends and neighbors.

Senyk and her husband, Michael, raise Angora rabbits for their wool, which can be used in fiber arts, such as needle felting and hand-spun yarn. The Senyks both work at Michigan Tech.

Forum will be by Zoom only, and starts at 10:30am. All are welcome. Email [email protected] for login information.

06/03/2026

Re-Awakening Curiosity

Curiosity is one of my favorite qualities. I equate it with openness, wonder, non-judging, and the beginner's mind of not-knowing. Young children walk, and talk, and reach out and touch things, absolutely filled with wonder and curiosity about the world. They haven't closed their minds to things yet. I encourage all of us to re-awaken our curiosity. I'll share some ways that I use curiosity in my meditation practice that are very useful.

Curiosity is one of my favorite qualities. I equate it with openness, wonder, non-judging, and the beginner’s mind of not-knowing. Young children walk, and talk, and reach out and touch things, absolutely filled with wonder and curiosity about the world. They haven’t closed their minds to things...

06/03/2026

Here's the latest KUUF Digest:

Please bring a favorite flower to the service today. We’ll create a congregational ‘bouquet’ representing the beauty of all our individual blossoming selves and then celebrate the traditional Unitarian ceremony of the ‘flower communion.’ Each participant will choose a flower to take home o...

06/03/2026

What can we do as Unitarian Universalists in response to the rise of right-wing authoritarianism in our country, especially in the form of “Christian Nationalism?”

Whatever strategies and specific actions
may be required of us, it is critically important that we ground ourselves firmly in the history and
theology of our liberal religious tradition.

This Saturday, June 6, 10am-11:30am, at KUUF, Rev. Bruce leads the "Minister’s Saturday Seminar: Responding to Religious Nationalism," on the thought of one of modern Unitarian Universalism’s most important theologians: James Luther Adams.

As a theological student and young minister, Adams made several extended visits to Germany in the 1930’s, which gave him a front-row seat to the rise of fascism in that country. Those experiences became decisive for the formation of his critical thinking about the role of social ethics in liberal religion. I had the privilege of working for “JLA” (as he was affectionately called) during my
own time in divinity school, and I consider him to be one of my theological mentors.

We’ll explore the key ideas of Adams and consider their relevance and importance for our time. Questions?

E-mail Rev. Bruce at [email protected].

06/03/2026

This Sunday, June 7, is the annual Flower Communion at KUUF.

Please bring a favorite flower to the service today. We’ll create a congregational ‘bouquet’ representing the beauty of all our individual blossoming selves and then celebrate the traditional Unitarian ceremony of the ‘flower communion.’ Each participant will choose a flower to take home other than the one they brought, symbolizing our interdependent community. Rev. Bruce Johnson leads the service.

Service will be in person and on Zoom, and starts at 10:30am. All are welcome.

05/28/2026

Cultivating a Down-to-Earth Curiosity

Astronauts find it hard to fit words to the awe, wonder and curiosity that is felt while experiencing the earth from space. This perspective shift can be profound and translate into a deep sense of responsibility and care upon returning to Earth. One of the Artemis II astronauts recently assigned this homework to space-curious kids: stop and really look at something growing out of the earth....

Astronauts find it hard to fit words to the awe, wonder and curiosity that is felt while experiencing the earth from space. This perspective shift can be profound and translate into a deep sense of responsibility and care upon returning to Earth. One of the Artemis II astronauts recently assigned th...

05/28/2026

Here's the latest KUUF Digest:

Curiosity is one of my favorite qualities. I equate it with openness, wonder, non-judging, and the beginner's mind of not-knowing. Young children walk, and talk, and reach out and touch things, absolutely filled with wonder and curiosity about the world. They haven't closed their minds to things yet...

05/28/2026

This Sunday, May 31, Carol Grafford leads the service, "Re-Awakening Curiosity."

Curiosity is one of my favorite qualities. I equate it with openness, wonder, non-judging, and the beginner's mind of not-knowing. Young children walk, and talk, and reach out and touch things, absolutely filled with wonder and curiosity about the world. They haven't closed their minds to things yet. I encourage all of us to re-awaken our curiosity. I'll share some ways that I use curiosity in my meditation practice that are very useful.

Service will be in person and on Zoom, and starts at 10:30am. All are welcome. Email [email protected] for login information.