BisManUU Programs

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: June 13, 2021 Today we will look back on the journey we have made together.Video version:https://youtu.be/bNaWxMifYl0

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: June 6, 2021 TheFlower Ceremony,sometimes referred to asFlower CommunionorFlower Festival, is an annual ritual that celebrates beauty, human uniqueness, diversity, and community.Video version:https://youtu.be/VYVg5_h-HmQ

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: May 23, 2021 As we crawl out of the pandemic, maybe it is time to remember joy.Video version:https://youtu.be/0boS43kB0Vo

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: May 16, 2021 FAILUREWe are all plagued by failure at some point in our lives. Can we reframe how we think about it?Video version:https://youtu.be/IByDMx0N6IY

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: February 21, 2021 Everyone has their own cruelest month.This Sunday we will share some hard won wisdom about the bluesVideo version:https://youtu.be/pYbR6rJmY_w

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: February 7, 2021 Scholar Anthony Pinn studies the role of religion for people who have been systematically dehumanized. He talks about this role and names it a quest for complex subjectivity. How can this quest for fuller meaning inform Unitarian Universalism?Video version:https://youtu.be/7fJe4pzv9p0

Speaker or Performer: Karen Wills Date of Delivery: January 24, 2021 Who we are lies acrossa bridge, a connectionto understanding and hope.Video version: https://youtu.be/T9_evX7yj4Q

Speaker or Performer: Mary Wilson and Pat Hager Date of Delivery: January 17, 2021 Journeys with Mary Wilson and Pat Hager.Video version:https://youtu.be/zxP1AOzvzfc

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: January 10, 2021 Am I loved? Do I belong? These are fundamental human questions. How does understanding that help us to navigate these extraordinary times?Video version:https://youtu.be/LELD_4dzfG0

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: January 3, 2021 Unitarian Universalists are very clear about what they do not believe, but what about what does inform our lives?Video version:https://youtu.be/01E7vIvoGKs

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: December 27, 2020 Join us for a New Year’s Service and Ritual for our community.Video version:https://youtu.be/1Fbx6j9VX58

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: December 6, 2020 Comparing ourselves to others helps us to know how to live together.Video version:https://youtu.be/EdR0z4Hmhm0

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: November 29, 2020 You can’t fix stupid, but you can distract It.We often confront things head-on, but is that always the best way?Video version:https://youtu.be/V7LRkqCPsjE

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: November 15, 2020 The questions we ask, shape the answers we get. What questions are we asking?Video version:https://youtu.be/0d0XrcgVZ40

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: November 8, 2020 May you live in interesting times is reported to be a curse. How does our mission intersect with these very interesting times?Video version:https://youtu.be/wnd-LQ6lJi8

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: November 1, 2020 Part of our Day of Remembrance service will include lifting up those we have lost. If you would like to participate, be prepared to share the name or names of your beloveds, their relationship to you and, if you like something you loved about the person or people. You may have your own candle to light or a picture or anything else you want to share.Video version:https://youtu.be/Y7_1FNC1298

Speaker or Performer: Eric Bjorke and Claire Lowstuter Date of Delivery: October 25, 2020 Erik Bjorke and Claire Lowstuter will share a piece of their Unitarian Universalist journey with us.Video version:https://youtu.be/xAMBMCbA0Xo

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: October 18, 2020 Expectations and fixed perspectives can lead to fear. Know when to let go and lead lives of love and equanimity.Video version:https://youtu.be/qkH_R7fAjKA

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: October 11, 2020 The stress is ratcheting up as we approach the election. All the issues that are being raised or not being raised weigh heavily on us. Where do you ground yourself when hard times come calling?Video version:https://youtu.be/XoEwzixCIGI

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: September 20, 2020 Process theology is one of the most prevalent threads in Unitarian Universalism today even if most of us have never heard of it.Video version:https://youtu.be/JY-sPML9ImI

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: September 6, 2020 WATERUnitarian Universalists have a ritual they practice gathering everyone back together after the summer—it is called Ingathering and often Water Communion is a part of that. We will be engaging in this ritual on September 6thduring our service. Your part of the ritual is to collect some water from a spot that is sacred to you or water that is meaningful or water that connects you to somebody special. Since we will not be physically there to mingle our water, we ask that you bring your water to church ahead of time. There will be a jar on the back porch—you can add your water. Then on the 6thwe will share our stories about the water we brought. Remember that the water cycle is a vast and mighty process and if you forgot to collect the water from your special place, the water out of your tap may have been there at some point anyway. It’s all good.Video version:https://youtu.be/R3KFiGMMPDU

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: August 30, 2020 We reference the climate crisis daily, but do we all have the same understanding of cause and effect? This service will be a Climate 101 to be sure we all start from the same place.Video version:https://youtu.be/lm4ZalOzyUA

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: August 23, 2020 Some have argued that we live in a disenchanted world now--free of superstition and magic.The idolatries of celebrity culture, nationalism and consumer capitalism paint a different picture.Video version:https://youtu.be/GRZEej-2Qy0

Speaker or Performer: Joseph McNeil Date of Delivery: August 9, 2020 Please join us with Bush Foundation Fellow Joe McNeil. Joe’s mother is Hunkpapa Lakota and he is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST). His father is Joseph McNeil Sr., founding member of the Greensboro 4 Sit In Movement at Woolworth’s lunch counter, Greensboro North Carolina. He has been a friend of this congregation for several years - you may remember some of his wonderfully catered food - and has deep roots in his tribe as well as the movement to assert Black and Indigenous rights.Video version:https://youtu.be/VE6uMsNcn1A

Speaker or Performer: Jane Schreck Date of Delivery: August 2, 2020 Schreck is a member of the English faculty at Bismarck State College since 2000. Focused on the craft of teaching rhetoric composition and business tech writing, Schreck's doctoral research examined the work of Wendell Berry through the lens of issues and topics in higher education.Video version:https://youtu.be/tmSOslGU_UA

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Lynnda White Date of Delivery: July 19, 2020 We will be hosting UU minister,Rev. Lynnda White, from the Universalist Unitarian Chruch of Peoria.Usually we think of history as the accomplishments of other people more significant than we are, but what does it mean when we become witnesses to unprecedented change?Video version:https://youtu.be/77hxw6lC5lk

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: June 14, 2020 Flower Communion was created in 1923 by the Czechoslovakian Unitarian Minister Norbert Capek. This is one of the few rituals unique to Unitarian Universalism. We will talk about the history and the symbolism. Traditionally, everyone brings a flower to the service, makes a shared bouquet and then takes a different flower home. We will have an online version of this ritual, so have a flower ready to share—a real one, a picture of one or an artistic rendering of a flower. We will turn on our cameras and make a bouquet!Video version:https://youtu.be/Uvz0dfvmkxw

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: June 7, 2020 How can we make the Bismarck Mandan Unitarian Universalist Church and Fellowship a worthy vehicle for our shared values?Video version:https://youtu.be/UyKHlLTXFQM

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: May 31, 2020 Imagination is a human abilityallowing us to explore ideasthat can change the world.Video version:https://youtu.be/emgWWSHLAFc

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: May 24, 2020 “Suffering occurs when an impending destruction of the person is perceived; it continues until the threat of disintegration has passed or until the integrity of the person can be restored in some other manner.”--Eric CasselVideo version:https://youtu.be/x4AXbUcsv9U

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: May 17, 2020 Do we get in our own way when working for justice and a better world?Coalition building might help us help ourselves.Video version:https://youtu.be/unzvM9pcbuY

Speaker or Performer: Janelle Masters, Kitty Netzer and R. Vincent Moniz, Jr. Date of Delivery: May 10, 2020 Join poets, Janelle Masters, R. Vincent Moniz, Jr. and Kitty Netzer for a morning of exquisite poetry. We will be treated to a live (via Zoom) performance by these three wonderful poets.Video version:https://youtu.be/u1Ls-Zbt5Sw

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: April 26, 2020 We are hearing the buzz phrase, “personal responsibility” in the news a lot these days.What does that mean for Unitarian Universalists?Video version:https://youtu.be/uCygtz5epes

Speaker or Performer: Mary Jo Dunne and Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: April 19, 2020 Earth DayRev. Sollie and Jo Dunne will be speaking about Earth Day. Mary Jo Dunne is a freshman at the University of Mary and holds the local title of Miss Coal Country in the Miss America Organization. Her social impact initiative is raising awareness about food waste. Today she will be speaking about things you can do to prevent waste on an individual level, while eating out and around your kitchen. Rev. Sollie will share some good news for the earth.Video version:https://youtu.be/9NFjv3YCZsY

Speaker or Performer: Don Morrison Date of Delivery: April 5, 2020 In February, Don traveled with a group of North Dakotans to the US-Mexico border to listen and learn from asylum seekers, border agents, legal experts, care givers, and others. Hearing the stories of women and children in dangerous limbo at the border, the group promised to make sure more people know what is really happening. Now, the coronavirus pandemic makes a deeper understanding of how we’re all connected even more obvious and important. Don is a retired coalition builder and community organizer. He and his family have been members of our congregation since the late 1980s.Video version:https://youtu.be/A4x_wtPQ26c

Speaker or Performer: Mary Wilson Date of Delivery: March 29, 2020 Land AcknowledgementSunday, March 29A Land Acknowledgement is a formal statement that recognizes the unique and enduring relationship that exists between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories. This week Mary Wilson will share some information about the growing practice of giving Land Acknowledgments and offer some of her own reflections about how we claim belonging and why it matters.Video version:https://youtu.be/nDHORH-jf8U

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: March 22, 2020 It's a global deep breath,an agreement between humansto be still and understand thatlove will guide us.Video version:https://youtu.be/OvMn_70r4yM

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: March 15, 2020 With so much going wrong with the world today, let us take time to find Delight.Video version:https://youtu.be/N5xF5jPJppw

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: March 1, 2020 It is good to know howand why our Fellowship started.Directions from the past toour futureVideo version:https://youtu.be/99_EonIf-1k

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: February 23, 2020 Who benefits and who bears the costs of our society? What does it mean when we decide we don’t want to take on certain risks?Video version:https://youtu.be/yyuOFAh2nq8

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: February 16, 2020 Spiritual practices are a way to connect to and live from what matters to us in this hectic world. They include many practices in addition to prayer or meditation. Find a practice you would like to try or be refreshed in your current practice.Video version:https://youtu.be/meocaWPis3o

Speaker or Performer: Butterfly Woman Date of Delivery: February 2, 2020 Renaming Custer ParkSunday, February 2ndwith Butterfly Woman (Angel Moniz)Butterfly Woman (Angel Moniz) enrolled member of the MHA Nation, is a local activist and student at United Tribes Technical College. She is one of the founders of a group dedicated to changing the name of Custer Park to something that is welcoming to all members of our community. Angel will discuss her journey to activism in our community, their efforts to change the name of Custer Park, as well as how you can be involved.Video version: https://youtu.be/m1eOydERA4g

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: January 12, 2020 To change the world and ourselves, we need to be vulnerable.Video version:https://youtu.be/r78ANHSEgdU

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: January 5, 2020 To mark the new year, we will engage in a ritual to bury what we need to set down and think about what we want to birth in the coming year. You can bring something that symbolizes what you want to let go and what you want to create.Video version:https://youtu.be/8kuK6aZ49HQ

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: December 22, 2019 Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Come celebrate the return of the sun.Ending song 'Longest Night' by Peter Mayer, sung by Elicia Faul.Video version:https://youtu.be/g29zGCI9qnU

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: December 8, 2019 Nature, rich and complex,a fertile place to findmeaning with which tolive out our lives.Video version:https://youtu.be/jczBLCv1KY4

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: December 1, 2019 Let's spend some time talking about what it means to be a religious person and what that means in our shared life.Video version:https://youtu.be/A3s-IHWCRcw

Speaker or Performer: Zayden Bartosh Date of Delivery: November 24, 2019 On November 20th, we remember those who were stolen from us through violence.Video version:https://youtu.be/zXe7Dtvq0yE

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: November 17, 2019 What we pay attention toshapes what our lives will become.Video version:https://youtu.be/hoDhhf1rXU4

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: November 10, 2019 Shame keeps us from fully showing up in our lives. Is it time to set it down?Video version: https://youtu.be/2qGo9JsMfxk

Speaker or Performer: Rev. Elizabeth Sollie Date of Delivery: November 3, 2019 When it comes to our owndeath, we all believe anexception will be made inour case.Video version:https://youtu.be/Q7jJFdLjp6g