Huntsville UU Services
There will be only one service each of the three summer months. Note that the
July service will be on the fourth Sunday, with Dr. Frank Schulman preaching. In August, Dr.
Schulman will return to his regular schedule of preaching on the second Sunday.
Sunday, July 27, 10:30 AM, Laura Chapel at HMH:
Dr. Frank Schulman's sermon topic will be "Three Ways to Build a Religion,
Two of Which Aren't Very Good." The nature of religion is now, as it always has been,
to try to interpret the world and our place in it. There are three separate models for building a religion. We must decide for
ourselves where our commitment lies and what doctrines of the past to accept. The three ways are orthodoxy, which looks
to the past; modernism, which throws everything overboard to start fresh; and recasting, or reinterpreting, which uses
experience to examine tradition. What standard do we have in finding a religion that can join us in this important venture?
Ancient Reading: Luke 11: 37-44
Modern Reading: "The Coming Church" by Theodore Parker
Sunday, August 10, 10:30 AM, Laura Chapel at HMH:
Dr. Schulman's sermon topic will be "The Bible, and a Few Words About the Author."
Ancient Reading: Deuteronomy 6: 1-9
Modern Reading: from "Unitarian Christianity" by William Ellery Channing
Looking Ahead:
On Sunday, October 26, exactly 450 years after Servetus was sentenced to his
death for heresy, Dr. Schulman will preach on "Servetus' Real Discovery."
Ancient Reading: Luke 6: 27-38
Modern Reading: The Sentencing of Servetus, by the Syndics
[Judges] of Geneva, October 26, 1553.
Huntsville UU Women
The Women's Sharing Circle will not meet in July.
Wednesday, July 9:
The UU Women will join the Red Hat Society for lunch at 1:00 P.M. at the Grand Buffet,
in the old Hastings building just around the parking lot from Kroger's.
UU Book Club
Anne and Kelley Sigler will host the August meeting and will lead the discussion of The Lexus and the Olive Tree:
Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman. The exact date will be announced later.
In October, we will be discussing How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role
from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill.
Other News
The Huntsville Unitarian Fellowship donated $600 to the Unitarian Church in Kemenyfalva, Transylvania, which is in
Northwest Romania. That amount is comparable in their currency to 19,800 lei, a large amount of money to those village
people. Kemenyfalva is in the area of the Carpathian Mountains where Unitarianism began in 1568.
To submit news to the UU newsletter, e-mail Carla McAdams.
Annual Meeting
On April 20, 2003, we elected officers and approved appointments to various
positions listed below for the church year 2003-2004.
Officers
President: Dr. Karl Mahaffey
Co-Vice Presidents/ Program Chairs: Ralph and Gail Phillips
Treasurer: Anne Isham
Secretary: Pete Kelly
Appointed Positions
Keyboardist: Sylvia DeVoss
Substitute Keyboardist: Dixon Lichtenauer
Co-Song Leaders: Dixon Lichtenauer & Melissa Templeton-Mahaffey
Co-Reading Leaders: Ann Staples & Richard Lane
Hospitality Coordinator: Pam Maine
Order of Service Editor: Roberta Krock
Newsletter Editor: Carla McAdams
Immediate Past President: Scott Plummer
Publicist: Stuart Williamson
