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.
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
Art, music, and song generally accompany the culture of any society. Sometimes songs can lead to a revolt against that society. We will explore examples by singing songs of peace and rebellion against war, oppression and exploitation from our world today.
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.
Service Video 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
