Adult RE

ADULT R.E. 9:30 SUNDAY MORNINGS

            We will begin a series of discussions with a new topic each week, beginning February 17 and ending May 4, depending upon weather effects.  We will designate a leader for each session and recommend that interested individuals are invited to attend whether or not they had read anything on the subject.  We will provide one or more references in UUA materials that the leader will refer to in the discussion but will not want anyone to feel excluded for not having read the article. We encourage individuals to find additional material to share on each subject.   Listed references are to UUA publications accessible on the UUA website.

            Child care is available. Please contact Frank Veno by Wednesday each week if you plan to attend and you are bringing children.

 February 17:  Stem Cell Research:  led by Jim Barbee.  UUA has one article to begin our thinking: “Stem cell research offers hope but politics is interfering with medical research.”   by Molly DeHaas Walsh 7.16.07

February 24:  Fascism:  is it increasing in America Today?  Led by ____ “Davidson Loehr and Charles Derber see fascism in contemporary American politics.  by Tom Stites 11.1.05 I  and “Rev. Dr. Davidson Loehr says fascism has come to America.” by Charles Derber 10.24.05

 March 2:  How do worldviews of fundamentalists and liberals differ?    Led by  _____  “Competing worldviews of fundamentalists and    religious liberals;   Why fundamentalists fear liberal family values.”  by   Doug Muder 9.12.05  and  “Making sense of the conservative worldview:    Two recent books can help liberals understand  the Christian right.”  by  Doug Muder 8.1.05

 March 9:  What is UU Theology?  Led by _____ “What is sacred?  The  relationship of all living things.”  by Patrick O'Neill          12.17.07  and “What is evil?  A view of human nature grounded in human possibility  rather than pathology.”  by Patrick O'Neill 11.26.07

 March 16:  Does UU reach working-class individuals?  Led by _____  “Liberal religion and the working class:  Unitarian Universalism has a class   problem.” by Doug Muder  9.3.07

 March 23:  How do UUs define theology?  Led by _____ “A theology of gratitude.  Gratitude should be the center of UU   theology.”   by Galen Guengerich 2.12.07

 March 30:  Original Sin vs. perfectionism? Led by ______ “Can UUs   talk about failure?  Original Sin isn't a good idea. Expecting perfection  isn't, either.”  by David Hubner 9.25.06

April 6:  Can UUs be tolerant?  Led by _________ “Sam Harris challenges liberal religious tolerance.  Harris has good news and bad  news for UUs”.   by Warren R. Ross 9.4.06

 April 13:  Can UUs cooperate with others to save the earth?  Led by         _______” Many religions, but only one earth.  Can reverence for the earth bring us together across religious differences?”  by Patricia Montley 2.6.06

April 20:  What is our moral agenda?  Led by _________  “Why liberal religion offers a better way.  Liberal religious people need to reclaim      the moral agenda.”  By Krista Taves 10.10.05

 April 27:  Do we agree about sin?   Led by ________  “The pages    of sin: Greed, envy, gluttony, and lust reconsidered.”  by Dan Cryer 9.1.04

 May 4:  The UU merger.  Led by _______________ “Claiming and  reclaiming Universalism.  Reflecting on the Unitarian and Universalist merger.”  By Helene Knox 7.1.93

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