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Journey of the Universe: An Earth Sunday ScreeningJourney of the Universe: An Earth Sunday Screening
Join us on Sunday, April 28 at 1 pm for a special Earth Sunday screening of Journey of the Universe, a unique odyssey of cosmic, biological, and cultural evolution that offers insight and inspiration for our present ecological challenges. In a single 60-minute narrative, writer and host Brian Swimme guides us through a scientific and spiritual Great Story, from the birth of the universe to the emergence of complex structures, from the dawn of life as we know it to the conscious present moment. The whole experience is framed by a single day on the Greek island of Samos, a crossroads of history and discovery.
Different from purely scientific approaches, Journey is the first film to integrate arts and humanities into the cosmic big picture. Drawing on the work of the late Fr. Thomas Berry, a cosmologist, historian, and eco-theologian, Journey won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary in 2012 and has birthed an online video series and podcast, as well as a sequence of online courses through the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology.
Learn more and see the trailer at the official website: https://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/
(This event is sponsored by AAHS.)
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Journey of the Universe narrates the 14 billion−year story of the universe’s development, from the great flaring forth at the universe’s inception to the emergence of simple molecules and atoms to the evolution of galaxies, stars, solar systems, and planetary life of greater complexity and consciousness. This is a story that inspires wonder as we begin to understand such complexity through science and appreciate such beauty through poetry, art, history, philosophy, and religion. It also awakens us to the dynamic processes of evolution that are chaotic and destructive, as well as creative and life-generating.
Journey of the Universe is a cosmology, although not just in the scientific sense of the study of the early universe. Rather, it is a cosmology in the sense of being an integrated story that explains where both humans and life forms have come from. All cultures have had such stories. We now have the capacity to tell a comprehensive story drawing on astronomy and physics to explain the emergence of galaxies and stars, geology and chemistry to understand the formation of Earth, biology and botany to envision life’s evolution, and anthropology and the humanities to trace the rise of humans. Journey draws on all these disciplines to narrate a story of universe, Earth, and human evolution that is widely accessible.
Journey weaves science and humanities in a new way that allows for a comprehensive sense of mystery and awe to arise. Such an approach expands the human perspective beyond an anthropocentric worldview to one that values life’s complexity and sees the role of humans as critical to the further flourishing of the Earth community.
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Journey to the End Palm Sunday recalls a journey that was joyful and pensive at the same time. That makes it similar to all journeys as travelers try to live in the moment yet count the days to the end. (Remarks by Rev. Ernie Pipes) |
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Joy to the World Christmas Eve Candelight Services (6 and 8 p.m.)
Adult Choir at 6 p.m.
Poulenc Quartet at 8 p.m.
If you would like to be a reader at a Christmas Eve service, please contact Nica Eaton-Guinn at intern.minister@uusm.org.
(Please note that audio from both the 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. sermons are posted below.)
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Joyce Lieberman: “Wall of Steals and Deals” Please join us for a special exhibit featuring the work of Joyce Lieberman: “Wall of Steals and Deals.” UU Santa Monica’s Beverly Alison has persuaded Lieberman to bring many wonderful pieces at unprecedented low prices! Come meet the artist. A Gala Artist Opening Reception for Joyce Lieberman will be on Sunday, August 2, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Forbes Hall. The show will run through Sunday, August 30.
After receiving her BFA from the University of Michigan, Lieberman spent five years at the University of Texas at Austin where she taught art, exhibited art, and earned a Master’s Degree in Art. Lieberman came to Los Angeles in 1983, settled in Venice, and began working with designers and art consultants who placed her paintings and collages in hotels, corporate residences, and galleries throughout the country.
 Lieberman’s art rapidly became well known. She often works with series of pieces. Her “UNStill Life” series features painted works on paper and canvas displaying flower-filled vases in luscious colors with colliding and overlapping patterns. For her Personal Archaeology series, she used collage to incorporate pattern, organization of shapes and color, and subtle references to correspondence. These works have been widely collected by many individuals and institutions including the University of Wisconsin, Merrill Lynch, Beverly Hills Hilton, and Blue Moon hotel in Miami. They have appeared in many Hollywood films.
She has been the solo exhibitionist in dozens of shows throughout the L.A. area, including ten solo shows at the iconic Seidman Gallery on Main Street. She continues to create new, intriguing pieces.
For this exhibit, Lieberman has created a salon style show of samples of her works from 1991 to the present. Works include florals, abstractions, and many other styles.
Contact Beverly at balison@aol.com for further information about the artist or about exhibiting on the Art Wall at UU Santa Monica.
— Jackie Schwab
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Julia Ward Howe Public and Private Julia Ward Howe's life was full by any measure wife of an activist doctor, mother of five children, author of Battle Hymn of the Republic, poet, suffragist, abolitionist, feminist, pacifist, and Unitarian. A new biography reveals just how difficult it was to juggle all these roles. |
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July 10, 2007 NOTE: This agenda reflects items to be considered at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors. Additional items of new business may be added at the board meeting. An updated agenda is available from the Church Office on the day of the board meeting. 1. Check-in [6:30 p.m.] 2. Call to order & identification of new business items: [6:45 p.m.] 3. Discussion and approval of minutes: Dayla McDonald |