Ongoing Programs

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Ongoing Programs

UUFG's Ongoing Adult Programs for Faith Development include our 9:30am Sunday Discussion group, Socrates Cafe, and the Wednesday "Around the UUWorld Brown Bag Lunch.

Around the UUWorld Brown Bag Lunch

Every Wednesday
12:00 - 1:00pm
Common Room, UUFG

Bring your lunch and join Rev Meredith for exploration of recent articles in our excellent denominational magazine, UUWorld.
Click on the article title to go to the article.

Mar 14: "For Love and Justice"
Mar 21: "Flowers for Communion" and "A Beacon for the Questioning" and "Sheltering the Faith" and "Congregational News"
Mar 28: "Join the Immigration Conversation" and "Congregations as Allies"
Apr 4: "Partners in Justice" and "Report Catalogs Abuse of Immigrants and Mexican Border"
Apr 11: "Congregations Study, Plan for Justice GA" and "If We Don't Invest in Our Youth, Others Will"
Apr 18: "Religious Hospitality" and "A Candid Welcome"
Apr 25: "A Book Group for the Ages" and "Disney Buys UU's 'Dark Life'" and "Churches Not Exempt"
May 2: "Service is our Prayer" and "Occupy Paradise" and "Bay Area Clergy Arrested at Occupy Oakland"
May 9: "Two Churches Become Occupy Sites" and "Board Listens, Learns at Occupy Boston" and "Spiritual Heritage of the Occupy Movement"
May 16: "NASA Fellowship named for UU Astronomer" and "Wandering in the Wilderness" and "Nautilus" and "Community Minister Helps 'One Child at a Time'"
May 23: "Prayers of Desperation" and "57th and Broadway" and "April Wind" and "Tucker Rescues Women's Voices"
May 30: "Me, Jewish?" and "Woods Sentinel" and "'Gathered Here' Helps UUs Share" and the families insert.
Jun 6: "Rochester Church's Rap Video Goes Viral" and "Main Congregation Rebuilding" and "'Tree of Life' Mosaic" and "Phoenix UUs Protest"

Also read Rev. Meredith's reflections and questions each week at uufgminister.blogspot.com.

Socrates Cafe

1st Sunday of the month

7:00pm
Phillips Social Hall

Next Socrates Cafe: Sunday, May 6, 2012

Topics are not selected in advance; rather, determining each gathering's philosophical interests is the first order of business. A two-stage nomination-and-voting process selects the evening's topic. Virtually any question can be fine-tuned so it can be looked at in a philosophical way.

What is a just war? What is an excellent marriage? Who owns a life? What is good taste? We then jump into the topic. There is a facilitator whose job is to look for built-in assumptions and embedded concepts, to notice differences of kind and degree, to point to logical implications or inconsistencies, and to seek out objections and alternative viewpoints.

Sunday Discussion Group

Lively discussions of current topics and concerns, run by a facilitator. This is open to the community and members.

Sunday mornings

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Common Room on the UUFG campus

Sunday 3 June 2012: Roxane Bleiweis and Emily Humphries-Beher will share slides and experiences from there recent visit to Cuba.

1st Sunday of the month

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