AtholUU E-Newsletter – June 29, 2016

WORSHIP SCHEDULE
  All worship services begin at 10:00 AM

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    “Abraham’s Tent”   by Rev. David Farrington

Given the recent Supreme Court decision thwarting President Obama’s efforts to give immigrants without papers — but with American-born children a break and the rhetoric of the presidential campaign, perhaps we would benefit from a look at the spiritual heritage which has guided American immigration policy since the nation’s founding. Towards this end I offer Abraham’s Tent — a reflection on how we receive and honor strangers..

July 24    Rev. Richards preaching

EVENTS

Board of Management Meeting will be Sunday, July 24, 2016.

 

IN CLOSING

from This Day In Unitarian Universalist History by Frank Schulman

June 29th

1813
The Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which amended the Blasphemy Act 1697, abolishing legal penalties for denying belief in the Trinity.  The effort was defeated by it was resubmitted & eventually passed July 14th 1813.  The Act was also known as the Unitarian Relief Act , The Unitarian Toleration Bill, and Mr William Smith’s Bill.  The Blasphemy Act was finally repealed in 1967.

1835
Celia Thaxter was born in Portsmouth NH, the daughter of the lighthouse keeper at Isle of Shoals.  She helped her family turn it into a summer retreat for New England’s Literary Unitarians.  Today, UUs call it: Star Island.