SERVICES FOR JULY, 2001
Worship services begin at 10:00 am
July 1, 2001
Rev. Nina Grey
Meditations on Freedom: A "Fourth of July" Service
Who has freedom? Who doesn't? How has freedom evolved? What is freedom's future? We will contemplate some of these themes, as we explore some of the changing nature of freedom in our times.
First Forum, July 1, 2001, at 11:45 a.m.
Richard Pardo
This will be an opportunity to discuss possible locations for the organ console after it is rebuilt.
July 8, 2001
Rev. Nina Grey
Elusive Dreams of Peace
This Sunday Nina will reflect on her journey to the Middle East, which she took in May with an Interfaith Leadership Group from Greater Chicago. She will share some of what she has heard and learned about the history and hopes of that region.
First Forum, July 8, 2001, at 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Nina Grey
This will be an opportunity for some discussion and response to the service, Elusive Dreams of Peace.
July 15, 2001
Rev. Viola Moore
The Power of Images and Images of Power
Rev. Moore's sermon will be about our being bombarded sensually by the images which flash by every 27 seconds if it is TV, videos or film and how these messages impact the optical unconscious. Rev. Moore writes, "as religious liberals we live as exiles in an alien culture, and we have a different picture of what life can be. We live in a distracting culture in which we try to witness and we are not as free as we imagine."
Rev. Viola L. Moore was born in a congregational parsonage in Montclair, New Jersey, later moving to Malden, MA where her father was minister of a Swedish Congregational Church. She graduated from Boston University and attended Chicago Theological Seminary, receiving her degree in 1942. She served with her husband in parishes in Vermont, and then solo pastorates in Vermont and New York. Later, when they lived in Detroit, she served as minister of music in Presbyterian and Baptist churches, later as minister of education at the Woodward Ave. Congregational church. In Chicago. Viola also served as minister of education at the Universalist Church in South Chicago, and then the First Congregational Church in East Chicago, Indiana for 12 years. She has since served a pastorate at the Hobart Unitarian Church, an interim ministry at Chesterton, Indiana, and a pastorate at the Berrien Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, in St. Joseph, Michigan, for seven years. She is now the minister emeritus there and preaches as needed. Rev. Moore is credentialed in the United Church of Christ and the Unitarian Universalist Association. She is the mother of four children and one foster son.
July 22, 2001
Ruth Jacquot
The Responsible Skeptic
Ruth Jacquot has just completed her second year of seminary studies at Meadville/Lombard Theological School. She is a retired university professor and environmental educator. She will examine some of the significant differences between the skeptic and the cynic. What are the characteristics of skeptics which urge them to take action against social injustice?
July 29, 2001
John Biedler
What's Really Liberal about Liberal Religion?
Does liberal religion have a specific definition or does it just describe the kind of loose, sometimes irreverent way we Unitarian Universalists have of doing theology? Having been a fundamentalist preacher and one-time-teacher of Biblical literalism, then turned Humanist, I have first hand knowledge of what "conservative" vs. "liberal" religion looks and feels like. Today we will contrast these approaches in very specific terms, covering concepts that have often been used in orthodox religion, but have much fuller expression if seen from the liberal perspective.
John Biedler is a recent graduate of Meadville/Lombard Theological School
and was the part time Practicum Minister for two UU congregations in the Midwest,
this year in Decatur, IL, and last year for the UU congregation in Delafield,
WI. John is being flown to Paris and Amsterdam in the fall to conduct workshops
on the Enneagram and to preach at the UU congregations of Paris and Amsterdam.
John has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and has lived and traveled in Tanzania, E.
Africa and the Philippine Islands. He has traveled to Hong Kong, New Delhi,
Jerusalem, Cairo, Athens, Rome, Amsterdam, Geneva, Cologne, Paris and London.
He's camped throughout Northern Europe and spends many weekends camping at the
Indiana Dunes. John loves Chicago -- from its magnificent architecture, the
lake, the museums, music and theatre halls, to its great restaurants and fabulous
outdoor concerts.