Archives for July 2023

Why do societies have religions, and what is the relationship between the nature of a society and its religious institutions? How has secularization impacted religion?

Our speaker, Jeff Nash, taught at University of Tulsa, Macalester College and he is an emeritus professor of sociology at Missouri State University. He also served as chair of the sociology and anthropology department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and he has articles and books on a variety of topics from the language and culture of Deafness to studies of everyday life. For the past eight years, he has been co-editor of Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

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Renée delivers a service from one of our sources – Buddhism! The “Four Immeasurables” of Buddhism teach us about Love and how to be our best – for others and for ourselves.

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On Juneteenth 2023, Fayetteville changed the name of a major street from Archibald Yell Boulevard to Nelson Hackett Boulevard. Gene Vinzant tells us more about Hackett, an enslaved man who escaped from captivity in Fayetteville in 1841 and made it all the way to Canada, and why it’s important to remember Nelson Hackett today.

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Is the world getting better or worse? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. So should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future? Maybe there’s another alternative. NWACC Professor Doug Krueger, a beloved regular guest speaker for UUFF, addresses this timely topic.

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