[UUCP] ARTICLE FOR FRIDAY EVENING ZOOM DISCUSSION WITH REV. PAUL

[revpauld444]

Hi everyone,
Here's the link to the article for this week's discussion.
It's a bit different this week.
This article is written by Diana Butler Bass, one of today's most
progressive Christian theologians and sociologists of religion.
I'm also assigning some homework this week. :-)
If you are able to, please watch the first Presidential debate on Tuesday
evening or, if you can't, the highlights following them the next day.
As we've seen this past week with the nomination of Amy Coney Barret to the
Supreme Court by Donald Trump, religion is once again becoming an issue in
this year's election. As much as we believe in separation of church and
state and should fight for that, religion has always played a role in our
national politics and likely will do so in the future.
So how do we navigate the confluence of these two during this election
period and after it's over? How do we discuss them with our neighbors and
friends and with those who may disagree with us?
This article offers some help in thinking about them and about those
questions.
Please remember that the discussion this week is *not* on Thursday October
1 but has been changed to Friday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Here's the link to the article:
https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/more-than-god-talk
Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday evening.
Please refer to the recurring Zoom link that Michael Myers-Jouan sent in
his email a couple of weeks ago. If you need it again, please contact
Michael.
Peace and Light,
Rev. Paul
Rev. Paul S. Dodenhoff
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palisades
Englewood, NJ 07631
uucpalisades.org
revpauld444 at gmail.com
551-427-2648
*“For my part the only religion which I believe in is the recognition of
the Divine in Man and Nature. The Good, the Beautiful, and the True is the
Holy Trinity which commands the consent of my intellect and the adoration
of my heart. Hence, I can love and worship all True, Good, and Beautiful
men and women as Incarnations of the Ineffable, Inconceivable Godhead. The
adoption of this faith seems to me the turning point of humanity. When men
and women receive this as a Living Faith, the millennium will dawn upon the
nations, social harmony will be inaugurated, and this nasty world will be
Transfigured into the Heavenly Zion.” -- George Ripley, Unitarian minister,
Transcendentalist leader, and founder of the Brook Farm Community, Roxbury,
Mass. 1843*
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