February 3, 2002
Rev. Nina D. Grey
Rev. Dr. Marlene R. Walker
First Food
Rev. Nina Grey will reflect on the importance of food for all human beings. We will ask: what roles does food play in our lives? What does food sustain and make possible, for ourselves and our communities? Who needs but does not have enough food? And why don't they have it?
Soup Lunch. After the service, we are all invited to a soup lunch, created by the church school program. Our young people have spent the month of January with the Empty Bowls project, learning about hunger and enhancing bowls with their artistry. They will provide the soup and the bowls. We'll buy both, and our contributions will support the Hyde Park and Kenwood Interfaith Council Food Pantry.
First Forum: Economic Globalization at 11:45
"How to Reach Out" at 1:00 p.m.
February 10, 2002
Rev. Nina Grey
Rev. Dr. Marlene Walker
Belonging
Near Valentine's Day, that day that honors relationships, Rev. Nina Grey will explore some facets of the experience of belonging: in the family, in the church, the community, the world, and even the cosmos!
First Forum: Interdependent Web at 11`:45
Great Books at 11:30
February 17, 2002
Rev. Nina Grey
Rev. Dr. Marlene Walker
Prophets and Healers
Recognizing and honoring Black History Month, Rev. Grey will reflect on prophets and healers. She will draw on the books, Company of Prophets, African American Psychics, Healers and Visionaries, by Joyce Elaine Noll, and Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans, by Albert Raboteau.
First Forum: Economic Globalization at 11:45
Parenting Group at 12:00 p.m.
February 24, 2002
Rev. Dr. David A. Johnson
Conversations with ... God? (Or: Mick Jagger's Lament)
Long before becoming a grandfather, Mick Jagger crooned the timeless wisdom -- "You can't always get what you want." Nevertheless, each of us may try to leverage our power and influence to get what we think we want, or at least to tilt life's playing fields more favorably. In traditional faiths, prayer often is invoked to serve such a tilting role. For Unitarian Universalists, though, God-conversations may be problematic. How might we acknowledge, and "converse" with, the creative and renewing spirit of our lives, and do so in ways which are truly redemptive and transforming, guiding us beyond our own self-interests? The reading will include a "God-conversation," adapted from Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue (1996).
Our Guest Minister this morning is Rev. David Johnson, who is serving as Minister-in-Residence at Meadville/Lombard during the Winter 2002 Quarter. Since 1987 he has been Minister at Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church in Overland Park, Kansas. Prior to entering ministry Dr. Johnson was a marine geologist and oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the National Science Foundation. He and his wife, Diann, have two children, Melanie (who will be 20 tomorrow!) and Stefan (16). His family will be visiting with him in Chicago this weekend.
Special Congregational Meeting at 11:30.