Speaker: Lee F. Greer
Lee F. Greer, Ph.D, is an evolutionary biologist and educator. He is married to Linda and the father of three. Lee and Linda have been members of UU Church of Riverside for years.
“From Mythos to Cosmos: From Representational Meaning-making and Mythmaking to Cosmology-making,” by Dr. Lee Greer
From our early primate subfamily hominin ancestors >3 Mya through origin of our genus Homo ~2 Mya, and the emergence of anatomical modernity ~315 kya in Homo sapiens sapiens, humankind and its forebears have used agency-detection, personification, representational symbols, and tale-telling to model … read more.
Easter before 70 CE: Giving Jesus a Proper Burial At Last
For the first decades after Galilean radical Jesus of Nazareth was executed for sedition by the Romans, the earliest followers of Jesus did not believe in a bodily resurrection as later taught. Textual and archaeological evidence show that the earliest Palestinian Jewish Christianity and the … read more.
Community and the War Against Modern Loneliness
In the modern world, isolation leading to loneliness is a major part of the human experience, and even more so in our post-industrial, pandemic situation. In today’s meditation we will consider the experience of loneliness from isolation in an artificial world in sharp contrast with … read more.
Palestine
Service by Lee Greer & Shaheen Nasser
Democracy—What it is, Where it isn’t, & How to Build it
In light of the commitment by Unitarian Universalists to democracy, we consider the societal differences, historical and economic, between democracy in pretense and democracy in reality.
Earth Day Smile: The Buddha’s Wisdom for Our Inner and Outer Ecological Crises
We will be discussing the application of the wisdom of the Buddha to our ecological crisis on our planet and within us.