Fish Stark & Rev. Jeremiah Lal Shahbaz Kalendae - March 22, 2026
The People Right in Front of Us
This month's theme is paying attention — and humanism is, at its core, a practice of presence. A choice to focus on the world we can see, the neighbors we can reach, the suffering we can actually reduce. Fish Stark, Executive Director of the American Humanist Association and a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, celebrates the shared roots of humanism and Unitarian Universalism and invites us to rediscover the radical joy of choosing people over abstractions and outcomes over ideals. Order of Service: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wiHm8ce7Qe9wXPisv-HQ_wrUUxcfcISqP--VOUa7kiQ/edit?usp=sharing
From Monthly: "Paying Attention"
Our theme this month invites us to consider our world, our community, and our lives in the light of the practice of Paying Attention. As Brene Brown puts it, “stories are only a form of connection when someone’s listening and hearing us.” And there’s a lot going on that can get in the way of truly listening and hearing. It’s hard to get out of our own narratives long enough to let someone else’s story stand on its own….