Huntsville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
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Newsletter - September 2003

Huntsville UU Services
Frank and Alice Schulman will be in Alaska for 6 weeks beginning September 1. Dr. Schulman will be the minister at the Fairbanks, Alaska, Fellowship during this time. We wish them well. We will meet on our regular dates in September and have scheduled two outstanding speakers from the Houston area to be our presenters.

Sun. Sept 14: Ross Henry, Humanist minister and President of the Isaac Asimov Chapter of the Humanities of Montgomery County, will present "The Humanist Perspective on Religion." Ross Henry serves as the only Humanist minister in the Houston area and he is one of only four in the state of Texas. He has been active in promoting tolerance among sectarian religions as well as with secular religious organizations such as the American Humanist Association.

The Reverent Ross Hamilton Henry investigates a hypothetical scenario whereby he is able to submit some of the questions that have vexed humanity down through the ages to a huge convocation of the gods. For example

1. How can we begin to eliminate the harmful sectarian elitist tenets left over from the dark ages that some religions still hold as sacred religious truths? Even in our own age certain religions have the idea that they and they alone possess the only legitimate path to truth. They assert, as gospel, that all those who reject their 'truth' are evil and will be tortured throughout eternity, after death, by their supreme being.

2. How can we build a more universally inclusive religion for our planetary citizenry so that they will feel a sense of membership in the global human family and cease killing each other over minor differences in politics and religion?

Sun. Sept 28: Karen McGee, psychotherapist in private and trainer at the Jung Center in Houston will present "The Vision of Carl Jung."

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
Wed. Sept 3: The Women's Sharing Circle will continue the study of UU curriculum Cakes for the Queens of Heaven and Beth Williamson will facilitate the session entitled "Reclaiming Our Bodies." This meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the home of Carla McAdams, 86 Dahlia Rd. in Timberwilde.

Wednesday, September 10:
The UU Women will join the Red Hat Society for lunch at 1:00 P.M. at the Mill Pond Country Store and Restaurant in Trinity.


UU Book Club
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
Ann Staples has recommended several interesting book titles. The first two are Volume I and II from a series entitled The Hinges of History by Thomas Cahill. Volume I is our UU Book Club choice for October: How the Irish Saved Civilization. Volume II is The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels. Four additional volumes are planned for this series. Ann also recommends The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International. See Anne for details.


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


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