Sunday, June 1, 2025

LGBTQ History in Fargo-Moorhead
with Larry Peterson

Dignity/Lutherans Concerned, later renamed the Prairie Lesbian/Gay Community, was Fargo-Moorhead’s and North Dakota’s first gay support, advocacy, and rights group,  From 1978 to about 1996, the group was the home and the public voice for LGBTQ communities in Fargo-Moorhead. What can we learn from their struggles and triumphs to help us face our current challenges?

FMUU member Larry Peterson retired from NDSU in 2016.  He is researching the history of the LGBTQ communities in Fargo-Moorhead and  coordinates the Red River Rainbow Seniors oral history project, "Breaking Barriers: Harvesting LGBTQ Stories from the Northern Plains." 

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Be Who You Are by Peter Friedrichs, presented by Donna Jones

Author and minister Peter Friedrichs examines what is perhaps our greatest calling--to become our authentic selves. Donna Jones will read this sermon that was originally written by Rev. Friedrichs.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

​Love at the Center Part 1:
FLOODING THE ZONE WITH LOVE:
A UU VISION FOR THE FUTURE (AND PRESENT)
with Rev. Karen Van Fossan

For Part 1 of our special Summer Series, Rev. Karen Van Fossan will speak about the UU shared value of Love.

“Given everything our world faces today, having faith in love is no small thing,” says UUA president Sofía Betancourt. Placing love at the center, our UU tradition has recently adopted seven core values, inspired by the seven principles that served as a guiding light for many UUs. As this summer series begins, Rev. Karen Van Fossan shares a practical vision of love, by which we might transform the world—as well as ourselves.

Rev. Karen Van Fossan is a trauma therapist, abolitionist UU minister, and beloved matriarch to a rambunctious chosen family. She is author of A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector, as well as an essay in Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies. Currently, she is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree through Pacific School of Religion, with a focus on abolitionist earth justice. 

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Love at the Center Part 2: Interdependence
with Tim Peterson

On Sunday, June 22nd, Dr. Tim Peterson will lead us in a reflection about the Unitarian Universalist value of Interdependence.

We honor the interdependent web of all existence. With reverence for the great web of life and with humility, we acknowledge our place in it.

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Love at the Center Part 3: Pluralism
with Carolyn Monzingo

Carolyn Monzingo will lead Part 3 of our Summer Series. The topic will be Pluralism.

We celebrate that we are all sacred beings, diverse in culture, experience, and theology.  We covenant to learn from one another in our free and responsible search for truth and meaning.  We embrace your differences and commonalities with Love, curiosity, and respect.