Huntsville UU Services
Sun. Feb 6: Dr. Frank Schulman's sermon title is "What Can We Make of Miracles?" Miracles are especially hard for modern, rational people to understand. We don't like to believe things that violate natural law. We believe the universe is governed by immutable laws that don't depend on how we believe or what faith we have. There are other problems, too, with both Old Testament and New Testament miracles. Yet at the heart there is a message we ought to consider.

Thanks to Beth and Stuart Williamson for providing the refreshments on Feb. 8.

Sun. Feb 22: Our guest speaker will be Garna Christian, a professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown since its inception in 1974. His topic is "No Law But Justice," which will be a discussion of the Houston race riot of 1917.

"No law but natural justice" is a quote from Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister, who believed that slavery was a violation of natural law and justice and appealed to a higher law.

Members of the African-American 24th Infantry Regiment attempted to assert their rights under the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence when stationed in racially segregated Houston, Texas, at the beginning of World War One. The clash of wills had tragic and far-reaching results for the participants, the community, and the nation.

A native Houstonian, Christian has a Ph.D. in history from Texas Tech University. He is the author of Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917,, which won the T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award of the Texas Historical Commission in 1996.

Huntsville UU Women
Wed. Feb 4: The Women's Sharing Circle will continue the study of the UU curriculum Cakes for the Queen of Heaven. We will meet in the home of Anne Sigler, 1321 Greenbriar Dr, at 10:00. Please bring a dish to share. In March, Shirley Ann Ranck, who wrote Cakes for the Queen of Heaven, will be the speaker of our Women's Sharing Circle.

Wed. Feb 11: The UU Women will join the Red Hat Society for the Lunch Bunch Style Show to be held at 11:00 a.m. at the Elkins Lake Dining Room. Reservations are $11.00 and must be made by Feb. 5. See Roberta for more details.