Topics: A Conversation with World Religions
| Month | Topic | Second Sunday Salon | Theology on Tap | Brunch Book Club |
Movies with Meaning |
Covenant Group |
| Second Sundays, 12:15 |
Third Mondays, 7pm |
Second and Fourth Saturdays, 9:30am | Third Fridays, 6pm |
First Tuesdays, 4pm |
||
| September | UU: Laying the Groundwork |
An Incomplete History of Unitarian Universalism |
What does it mean to be religious? |
God Is Not One, Introduction (one session | Chocolat – PG13 |
Love |
| October | Judaism | Sources of Wisdom |
What is forgiveness? |
God Is Not One, Chapter 7, Judaism | Yentl – PG |
Exile |
| November | Humanism and the Enlightenment |
Reason and Reverence |
Is there more to life than this? |
God Is Not One Chapter 9, A Brief Coda on Atheism | Contact – PG |
Reason |
| December | Christianity | The Faces of Jesus |
Are there still miracles? |
God Is Not One, Chapter 2, Christianity | The Preacher’s Wife – PG |
Hope |
| January | Confucianism and Daoism |
Five Virtues, Five Relationships | What does it mean to be virtuous? | God Is Not One, Chapter 3, Confucianism and Chapter 8, Daoism | The Joy Luck Club – R | Flourishing |
| February | Yoruba and the African Religions |
The Vision of Sacred Reality | What are we connected to? |
God Is Not One, Chapter 6, Yoruba | TBA | Connection |
| March | Hinduism | Three Paths to Liberation |
To what are you devoted? | God Is Not One, Chapter 4, Hinduism | Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – PG13 | Devotion |
| April | Buddhism | Noble Truths |
What is enlightenment? | God Is Not One, Chapter 5, Buddhism | Little Buddha – PG |
Awakening |
| May | Islam | The Five Pillars |
What does it mean to have faith? |
God Is Not One, Chapter 1, Islam | The Kite Runner – PG13 |
Surrender |
| June | UUism and the Wider World |
Embracing the Whole Human Story |
No Program |
Wrap Up (one session) |
No Program |
Compassion |