Sunday Service Topics & Speakers
March 2010
March 7: Rev. Valerie T. Wills. Do We Need the Church? What purpose does a Unitarian Universalist church serve? Is it to worship or to gather or to share in community? How do we justify our existence in the world today? These and other questions are the topic of this morning's service.
March 14: Rev. Valerie T. Wills. Living More With Less. The art of simplicity of living is one it takes a lifetime to learn. We begin, perhaps again, perhaps for the first time to embrace a simpler, more ecological way of living. This is a Family Service, where the children join the adults in the sanctuary.
March 21: Dr. Karen Gray. The Trouble With Freedom of Religion. The roles of personal beliefs and political theologies in our individual and national politics, and of how these contribute to the inherent contradictions and instabilities between the free exercise and non-establishment of religion clauses of the first amendment.
March 28: Valerie T. Wills. Speaking of Faith. The spiritual life "is the life of man's real self, the life of that interior self whose flame is often allowed to be smothered under the ashes of anxiety and futile concern." (Thomas Merton) Faith is the keeping alive of that self.
Sunday Service Topics & Speakers
April 2010
April 4: Easter: Rev. Valerie T. Wills. Lift up a Stone. We see rebirth in the smallest and most humble of things. May this season prepare us for the glorious rebirth of spring. This is a Family Service, where the children join the adults in the sanctuary.
April 11: Rev. Valerie T. Wills. Metaphorical Theology. In a sense, all theology is metaphorical if we admit that the theos, whatever it may be, is beyond the human mind to understand except through the use of metaphor.
April 18: Ginny Cook. A Letter From God. A first person account of what God has meant to people through the ages: a goddess to the Greeks, a god of war to the Hebrews, possibly that God is ultimately indefinable yet ever seen as the source of life.
April 25: Rev. Valerie T. Wills. The Larger Hope. Universalism has always been a religion of hope. There have been many different systems of understanding the positive force of God and the reality of hope. This morning we will examine the history of Universalism's interpretations of hope.
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