Speaker: Lee F. Greer

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.

“Across the Geological & Genomic Fossil Records of Life, the One you Meet is You!” by Dr. Lee Greer

Meditation Summary: In the eternal nowness of the thrive and riot of life on our planet Earth, from barrier reefs, rain forests, boreal forests, tundra, fungal neural networks, micro and macrobiota in lakes, streams, grasslands and deserts, to the abyssal plains of our oceans, the archipelagos of our oceans and seas, to the lichen-encrusted rocks … Continue reading “Across the Geological & Genomic Fossil Records of Life, the One you Meet is You!” by Dr. Lee Greer

“Swirl of Autumn Leaves: the Transitions of Life,” by Lee Greer

Service video The weightiness of the passage of time is a long standing theme in art, poetry, and literature in many cultures. The literary motif in latin called “Ubi sunt . . .?” which translates to “Where are . . .?” engages with the poignant/wistful human feeling of the passage of life. For example, the … Continue reading “Swirl of Autumn Leaves: the Transitions of Life,” by Lee Greer

“Universalism: The Other Half of UU: Part 2,” by Dr. Lee F. Greer

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.

“From Mythos to Cosmos: From Representational Meaning-making and Mythmaking to Cosmology-making,” by Dr. Lee Greer

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