AtholUU E-Newsletter – July 6, 2016

WORSHIP SCHEDULE
  All worship services begin at 10:00 AM

July 10   “Hope”  Rev. Richards

To quote the poet Shelley, “ To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates from its own wreck, the thing it contemplates.”   Hope is not only a quiet, passive thing.  Hope gives energy.  There are times when Hope is quiet; but at other times, Hope needs to be doing.

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

First Fall Fair Meeting is this Sunday, July 10, 2016 after church.

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

Notice of great TV Show about the Sharps
DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR, a new documentary co-directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky about a little-known but important mission by an American minister and his wife to rescue refugees and dissidents in Europe before and after the start of World War II, will air on September 20 at 9 pm (check local listings) on PBS.  A trailer for DEFYING THE NAZIS is available at http://www.defyingthenazis.org/

IN CLOSING

from This Day In Unitarian Universalist History by Frank Schulman

July 6th

1592
John Koszka, a patron of Unitarian churches in Poland and Lithuania, wrote A Confession of Faith.

1829
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray, a Universalist poet, activist and religious educator and second wife of Universalist preacher, Rev. John Murray, died at age 69.

1835
John Marshall, first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and a Unitarian, died at age 79.

1874
Paul Revere Frothingham as born in Jamaica Plain, MA.  Like his numerous “Mayflower ancestors,” he became a minister and was called to the Arlington St. Church in Boston.