Adult Classes
Lifelong Learners
Horizon offers adults opportunities to grow in knowledge, wisdom, and spirit. Classes range from one-session workshops to semester-long courses. Information can also be found in the weekly newsletter and on bulletin boards around the church.
Visit Spiritual Deepening for information about additional spiritually-centered groups
Adult Classes and Spiritual Growth Groups
Click on an image below for the Adult Class or Spiritual Growth Group Fall 2025 sign-up link.
Most groups sign-ups run through August 31st or September 7 depending on their start date.
Many classes and groups begin September and some begin in January (watch for sign-ups in December). Information about the weekly Sunday Morning Forum topics can be found by scrolling down. Learn more about the Horizon Book group and other fellowship groups HERE. Our 2 session Starting Point Small Group for newcomers happens about once every 3 months.
Sunday Morning Forum
sundays, 9-10:15AM
online and In-person in the Library — Check Church Calendar for link
Our weekly facilitators bring topics that motivate us to live into our UU values, grow spiritually, and learn from one another in our free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Topics and presenters vary from week to week. Drop-ins welcome. Please contact SMF@horizonuu.org if you have a presentation to give or a fresh topic idea to share.
August 3, 2025
Understanding the American Healthcare System - We will learn how politicians, insurance companies, and the government, by making healthcare a business, have created a broken American healthcare system. We will explore how capitalism and socialism intertwine and, in the process, create a messy and unhappy situation for patients and physicians.
Presenter: Bhaskar Padakandla, MD
August 10, 2025
DECLUTTER Your Life - We will view and then discuss a video on Stoic philosophy by Ryan Holiday: DECLUTTER Your LIFE (8 Stoic Strategies To Get Your Life In Order Today).
Presenter: Dave Troiano
August 17, 2025
Resisting AI Harm, Reclaiming Human Wisdom: Grassroots Pathways through the Doughnut Lens - As AI threatens to erode our democracy, environment, and sense of self, we will explore a different path. Using the Doughnut Economics model, and movements like ControlAI.com, we’ll examine how grassroots communities can reclaim technology for healing and human flourishing. Join us for a powerful conversation about AI, AGI/ ASI, natural intelligence, agency, systems change, and the regenerative power of compassion and connection.
Presenter: Karen Doore
August 24, 2025
Roots to Leaves Episode 2.9: What's so UU about the Democratic Process? - In this video,
Rev. Jude Geiger and Brother Zachary Stevens-Walter unpack the Fifth Principle of Unitarian Universalism: "The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large." So, what IS so Unitarian Universalist about the democratic process?
Presenter: Ed Keller
August 31, 2025
Understanding the American Healthcare System Part 2 - We will continue to explore how politicians, insurance companies, and the government, by making healthcare a business, have created a broken American healthcare system. We will explore how capitalism and socialism intertwine and, in the process, create a messy and unhappy situation for patients and physicians.
Presenter: Bhaskar Padakandla, MD