Lee Greer is an evolutionary biologist, educator, married to Linda, and a father of three. Lee and Linda have been members of UU Church of Riverside for many years, and they recently moved to Montana where they attend the local UU church. We are fortunate to have Lee continue giving his quarterly presentations via zoom.
Two old UUs, Lee Greer and Steve Lawless, conspire together to summarize Unitarian Universalism in a song with stanza lyrics by both!On introducing Unitarian UniversalismOn Enlightenment LiberalismOn Science & ReligionOn Sticking Up for the Underdog!On War & PeaceOn Christian UniversalismOn Unitarianism & DivinityOn our little red sandstone church in Riverside.
We will review the history of select paradigm-shaking women scientists, and the obstacles they face and overcome, as well as their contributions to free thought and the making and breaking of world-views.
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Service video 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 ourselves and our World. As meaning-making primates, we have structured … Continue reading “From Mythos to Cosmos: From Representational Meaning-making and Mythmaking to Cosmology-making,” by Dr. Lee Greer
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 competing early Pauline Christianity disagreed about many things, but both … Continue reading “Easter before 70 CE: Giving Jesus a Proper Burial At Last,” by Dr. Lee Greer
Service Video 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 the natural healing experience of solitude in Nature. … Continue reading “Community and the War Against Modern Loneliness,” by Dr. Lee Greer
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.
