AtholUU E-Newsletter – June 23, 2016

WORSHIP SCHEDULE
   All worship services begin at 10:00 AM

June 26th    Flower Communion and “Blooming Where You Are Planted”
                      Rev Marilyn Richards

The time of the Summer Solstice is the beginning of reliably warm weather, abundant food and  good times ahead.  All will be well again, we know.

Explanation: Flower Communion is a short Unitarian Universalist communion service.
Everyone is asked to bring a flower.  Please bring whatever flower you like.
We celebrate diversity!  For example, little children often like to bring dandelions. We will have a vase and small bowel to collect the flowers brought to the service on the marble topped table in the Chapel. When the service begins, the flower vase and bowl are placed next to the chalice on the table during the service.  At the end of the service, everyone takes a different flower home.  There will be extra flowers for those who forgot.

And please note, participation in any ritual is always purely voluntary.  You may pass if you wish without judgement on anyone’s part.

July 3rd    TED and Response by Steve Wills
                 “July 4th and the Right to Choose Your Own Bathroom”

July 10    Rev. Richards preaching

July 17    Rev. David Farrington

July 24    Rev. Richards preaching

EVENTS

Board of Management’s first meeting of the Church Year will be on Sunday, June 26, 2016 after coffee hour.

IN CLOSING

from This Day In Unitarian Universalist History by Frank Schulman – June 23rd

1760
Mark Akenside, a great English philosophical poet and devoted Unitarian, died in London at the old age of 48 after a life dedicated to liberty, wisdom, poetry and religion.  In the “real world,”  he was the principal physician to St. Thomas’ Hospital in London.

1949
The Unitarian Education Director’s Association was formed in Chautauqua, New York by Sophia Lyon Fahs, Ernest Kuebler, and Frances Wood.

1977
At GA, in Ithaca, New York, the UUA passed the ground-breaking Women and Religion Resolution, which called on UUs to examine in their own lives the way in which traditional religious beliefs have devalued women & promoted his devaluation in the larger culture.

2001
William Sinkford was elected the first African-American president of the UUA.