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"America's Dark Age or a New Day"
The Reverend Clarke Dewey Wells, Sarasota, Florida
Helen Leddy, Worship Associate
Religious Education
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Nursery Care
10:30 AM
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We are a Welcoming Congregation, affirming the dignity of
bi-sexual, gay, lesbian, questioning, and trans-gender persons!
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Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price Set To Debut in Fort Myers Next Tuesday at House Party Screening
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The controversial new film Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price will debut in Fort Myers next Tuesday as part of Wal-Mart Premiere Week, an unprecedented grassroots effort that will see over 3,000 screenings across the nation from November 13-19, 2005.
The event is open to the media. Please RSVP to attend. You can RSVP online at: http://action.bravenewfilms.org/event/wm_screening.jsp?event_KEY=7045&track= or at uuchurch@uucfm.org.
Who: All interested persons.
What: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price screening and conversation
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Myers (239.561.2700)
When: Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 7:00 pm
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Wisdom Search --- Commentary by Our Minister
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The Reverend Kenneth Gordon Hurto
Senior Minister
Posted 9/29/05
Radical Discontinuity, Hurricane Katrina, and Faith
"Radical discontinuity" is not a phrase that you drop very often over the morning coffee. The phrase has some technical meanings in archaeology, biology, and theology, but essentially it means a sudden shocking departure from the world we expect and the one we find.
Hurricane Katrina is a radical discontinuity for us all. Typically, a major storm is locally upsetting, but there is a presumption that with time and help, things will be made right and whole again. But what do you say when things are more than broken - in the words of one observer, when "whole buildings just aren't there anymore!"? What do you say when all the taken-for-granted "infrastructure" simply no longer exists? How can you imagine a return to things as they once were after the Gulf Coast has drowned?
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To nurture the search for truth and meaning
To be a loving, diverse, and intergenerational community
To minister to each other and to the community at large
To improve the quality of life by living our values and working for local and universal justice.
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The Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism ~ We Affirm & Promote:
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- The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
- Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
- Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
- A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
- The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
- The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
- Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
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Copyright (c) 2005 UUCFM.
All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium
without express written permission of UUCFM is prohibited.
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