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Adult RE - "What You Can Believe if You Don't Believe in God?"
Session 1
Monday, December 5, 7-9pm
Session 2
Sunday, December 9, 3-5pm
In December we will read and discuss an address entitled “Why Teach Religion in an Age of Science?” by Sophia Lyon Fahs, the famous scholar and educator who revolutionized RE and contributed to the “Unitarian Renaissance” of the 1940s.
"The world we now know is one. The universe is one. Mankind is one brotherhood. We even belong in the family of atoms and stars. Reality can no longer be divided into clear-cut contraries, the material and spiritual, the animate and the inanimate, the temporal and eternal, the body and mind, good and evil, today and tomorrow, Jew and Gentile, Christian and Pagan, the secular and religious, even the Creator and the created. The dividing walls are down... Let us then walk forward rather than backward. The unique historical memories in our special religious cultures call today for less loyalty and more understanding, less praise and more honest self-criticism. Our direction needs to be forward. It is not our ancestors who will be changed by what we do. It is our contemporaries, and our descendants for generations to come, for whom we should be feeling responsibilities. 'For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.'”
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Adult RE - "What You Can Believe if You Don't Believe in God?"
Session 1
Thursday, November 29, 7-9pm
Monday, December 3, 4-6pm
Session 2
Sunday, December 9, 1:30-3:30pm
Saturday, December 15, 4-6pm
In December we will read and discuss an address entitled “Why Teach Religion in an Age of Science?” by Sophia Lyon Fahs, the famous scholar and educator who revolutionized RE and contributed to the “Unitarian Renaissance” of the 1940s.
"The world we now know is one. The universe is one. Mankind is one brotherhood. We even belong in the family of atoms and stars. Reality can no longer be divided into clear-cut contraries, the material and spiritual, the animate and the inanimate, the temporal and eternal, the body and mind, good and evil, today and tomorrow, Jew and Gentile, Christian and Pagan, the secular and religious, even the Creator and the created. The dividing walls are down... Let us then walk forward rather than backward. The unique historical memories in our special religious cultures call today for less loyalty and more understanding, less praise and more honest self-criticism. Our direction needs to be forward. It is not our ancestors who will be changed by what we do. It is our contemporaries, and our descendants for generations to come, for whom we should be feeling responsibilities. 'For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.'”
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Adult RE - 7 UU Principles and Palestine-Israel |
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Adult RE - Advanced Directives
Your Advance Directive is a legal document that can speak for you when you cannot speak for yourself. It empowers an agent that you select to make medical decisions for you and act as your advocate in difficult times. In this workshop we’ll explore materials that can help you make the choices to mark on your directive. Bring your questions, maybe a previous directive or “living will” document, and join us for homemade muffins Saturday morning, from 9:30 am to noon in the Warren Matthews Conference Room. This is the first of a two part workshop. Contact: Joyce Holmen. One time materials cost: $5.00.
Contact: Joyce Holmen, or email AdultRE@UUSM.org. |
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Adult RE - Advanced Directives Your Advance Directive is a legal document that can speak for you when you cannot speak for yourself. It empowers an agent that you select to make medical decisions for you and act as your advocate in difficult times. In this workshop we’ll explore materials that can help you make the choices to mark on your directive. Bring your questions, maybe a previous directive or “living will” document, and join us for homemade muffins Saturday morning, from 9:30 am to noon in the Warren Matthews Conference Room. This is the first of a two part workshop. Contact: Joyce Holmen. One time materials cost: $5.00.
Contact: Joyce Holmen, or email AdultRE@UUSM.org. |
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Adult RE - An Enjoyable Dive Into the Who and What We Are Bill Blake & Dave Watson will present an enjoyable dive into the who and what we are. This on-going, once a month class is presented to help participants master specific meditation skills. We endeavor to answer the questions Who am I? (attitudes and beliefs) and What am I? (essence or true nature). This class will include meditations that explore participants' spiritual goals. The monthly group meetings will also focus on insights gained throughout the month. It is expected that participants have a regular meditation practice. |
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Adult RE - Book discussion "Humanist Voices in Unitarian Universalism"
Join Adult RE as we read and discuss this new and remarkable little volume of thought-provoking, inspiring, and heart-warming essays that just might challenge your view of Humanism -- whether you consider yourself a Humanist or not. Contributors represent a range of viewpoints and include luminaries of Secular Humanism and Unitarian Universalism such as Edd Doerr, Michael Werner, Chris Stedman, Rev. David Bumbaugh, Rev. Kendyl Gibbons, and Rev. William Murry.
From the publisher:
“In this highly anticipated collection, Unitarian Universalist Humanists present their faith perspectives in 23 engaging and thought-provoking essays. The contributors, both lay and ordained, demonstrate why Humanism has been one of the bedrock theologies of Unitarian Universalism for the last hundred years. They reflect on what it means to be a religious Humanist today and how they see the movement evolving in the twenty-first century. They explore Humanist history, beliefs, approach to life, social justice, community, and religious education. Together, these voices proclaim a passionate affirmation of a rich and dynamic tradition within Unitarian Universalism.”
The first 40 pages are available as a free preview on Google: goo.gl/RvwrCU
Contact James Witker at jwitker@mac.com.
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Adult RE - Book discussion "Humanist Voices in Unitarian Universalism"- 2nd Meeting
Join Adult RE as we read and discuss this new and remarkable little volume of thought-provoking, inspiring, and heart-warming essays that just might challenge your view of Humanism -- whether you consider yourself a Humanist or not. Contributors represent a range of viewpoints and include luminaries of Secular Humanism and Unitarian Universalism such as Edd Doerr, Michael Werner, Chris Stedman, Rev. David Bumbaugh, Rev. Kendyl Gibbons, and Rev. William Murry.
From the publisher:
“In this highly anticipated collection, Unitarian Universalist Humanists present their faith perspectives in 23 engaging and thought-provoking essays. The contributors, both lay and ordained, demonstrate why Humanism has been one of the bedrock theologies of Unitarian Universalism for the last hundred years. They reflect on what it means to be a religious Humanist today and how they see the movement evolving in the twenty-first century. They explore Humanist history, beliefs, approach to life, social justice, community, and religious education. Together, these voices proclaim a passionate affirmation of a rich and dynamic tradition within Unitarian Universalism.”
The first 40 pages are available as a free preview on Google: goo.gl/RvwrCU
Contact James Witker at jwitker@mac.com.
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Adult RE - Book Discussion Group "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" |
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Adult RE - Book Discussion Group |
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Adult RE - Book Discussion Group - (re-scheduled will be on 04-21) |
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Adult RE - Book Group
On Sunday, February 3, from 1:15 to 3:30 pm, please join us in the Warren Mathew Conference Room to discuss anti-racist educator Robin DiAngelo’s new book, White Fragility. We will share our responses to the author’s perspectives on implicit bias and structural racism, and explore the unconscious strategies that white folks may engage in to defend against the notion that they are complicit.
From author, academic and preacher Michael Eric Dyson: “A vital, necessary and beautiful book, a bracing call to white folk everywhere to see their whiteness for what it is and to seize the opportunity to make things better now.”
Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine writes that the book “brings language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult.” Books are available for purchase at the Lifespan RE table. 156 pp. All are welcome!
For further information, contact Roberta Frye or Audrey Lyness.
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