Blockbuster programs still remain in the 2003-2004 curriculum year! Look for Items hi-lighted in this color!
This class is intended to form a small community over the course of 6 weeks
as participants create their own credos. Many mark it as a milestone in
their own religious development.
Facilitator: Deb Derylak
Dates: October 19th-November 23rd, 2003
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Donation: $10.00
Ever wonder about the history of the UU Church? Did the new member orientation or New UU class spark some curiosity in you? Then we have the class for you. Each week we will focus our discussion around one or two short readings by key thinkers such as Michael Servetus, Faustus Socinus, Hosea Ballou, William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, or the Humanist Manifesto. Beginning Early Christianity and the Protestant Reformation and ending with today's grappling with diversity, we will place such thinkers and their thoughts into their historical frameworks, and try to trace the common threads that run through their words.
Facilitator: Kay Read, Associate Professor
of World Religions at DePaul University
Dates: Sundays: April 18th-May 30th 2004. (i.e. skipping May 14th
and 16th)
Times: All Sessions 12:00-1:30
Donation: $10.00
Suggested Reading: The Epic of Unitarianism, by David B. Parke,
Boston: Skinner House Books, 1985 available in our bookstore or at www.uua.org
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Small groups of five to ten, meet twice a month in facilitated groups for two hours. In ten sessions (five months) we deepen our connections and religious understanding. For more information contact the Church Office at 773-549-0260. Upcoming sessions:
Join facilitator Paul Alfassa on an exploration into the World Religions. Each religion will be covered in an hour and a half session Sunday afternoons from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. throughout the year. Suggested donation for these one-time seminars is $5 per seminar.
Twenty-three million people are followers of the Sikh religion. But who are they? What do they believe? A guest speaker Rajinder Singh Mago, of the Palatine Gurdwara (temple), will answer these questions and more as we explore this fascinating faith.
This will be a fun and easy way to introduce yourself and your children
to the basics of this mind-expanding religion. Learn the Buddhist worldview
and how it is different and similar to UU.
Do you know “The Way?” Discover the basics of this ancient Chinese
religion rediscovered in such modern books as The Tao of Pooh. Learn why
this religion is popular today and how it can make life flow more simply,
naturally, effortlessly, and effectively for you-right now!
What is this religion with nearly a billion adherents all about? There
is more to it then holy cows and gods with elephant heads. Discover what
Hindus really believe and why it is so misunderstood.
What is Zen anyway? Discover the answers through Japanese haiku-the poetry
of everyday life. Learn the meaning of this mysterious religion and watch
Zen transform anyone-even you-into a poet. No prior experience necessary!
Far away or closer to home then you think? You may have seen the movie
Seven Years in Tibet with Brad Pitt, but what is Tibetan Buddhism really
about? And how does the Dalai Lama fit in? Come and join us as we explore
this magical and mysterious religion.
Is He/She dead alive, asleep, an underachiever, or
what? How does our belief or non-belief in God affect our world outlook?
We’ll explore the answers and discuss different concepts of God using
Karen Armstrong’s History of God.
Co-facilitated with Kay Read, Associate Professor of World Religions,
DePaul, University.
It means “holy war,” right? Wrong! Find
out why this frightening buzzword is so misunderstood. Discover its true
meaning in Islam and what the Koran really says about this controversial
and explosive subject.