UUFP Book Club

The UUFP Book Club welcomes you to join us on February 21st, 12:00, at Lily’s Grill, 115 East High St, Pottstown, 19464 to discuss the book, Still Alice.51QBKeJO93L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-v3-big,TopRight,0,-55_SX278_SY278_PIkin4,BottomRight,1,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_
Our newest member to the book club, Cyndi, has recommended this book.
“In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease learns that her worth is comprised of more than her ability to remember. Now a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life—and her relationship with her family and the world—forever.
At once beautiful and terrifying, Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease that is as compelling as A Beautiful Mind and as unforgettable as Ordinary People”.
Review from Amazon.com
Please join us for a lively discussion that, for some, has already touched our lives.
Linda
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Service Topic for January 25

These Are Interesting Times

Guest Speaker: Bob Wood

Historian, writer, artist, and retired English teacher Bob Wood will share in depth history of our local area, with an emphasis on the folk culture of the PA Germans of the Perkiomen region. He will examine the value of paying attention to local history in contemporary life and open his talk to discussion. Bob is a member of many historical associations and is currently president of the New Hanover Historical Society.

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Service Topic for January 18

Confronting the Structures of Evil

Speaker: Reverend Dave

Today we will begin a series on the current Black American experience, which Rev. Dave will continue through Black history month in February. Here he will provide an overview of that experience in the 21st century, as he now sees it, and trace its roots back to the Reconstruction era. Subsequent sermons will focus on the role of the criminal justice system as an ongoing institution of Black oppression in America, highlighting recent grand jury actions.

Third Sunday Potluck will follow the service.

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Service Topic for December 28

A Morning of Poetry 

Speakers: Congregation and Guests

Lay Leader: Allan Pallay

Are there poems or passages of prose that you have found to be particularly beautiful; that have moved you emotionally? If so, come to this service and share them with UUFP friends and guests. At this service each person will be invited to read their chosen poem(s) or short piece(s) of prose and tell us why they find them meaningful. No need to make prior arrangements; just show up with poem/prose in hand. We also welcome those who would just like to listen. Thus, we will have the pleasure of sharing with others, words that we find beautiful, discovering new poems/prose that may move us, and getting to know our UUFP friends and guests more deeply.

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Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

December 24 at 7:00 PM giotto

Comfort Ye My People 

Speaker: Reverend Dave Farrington

Christmas is the quintessential story of the soul, with all of its symbols, most especially a beautiful baby in a manger who reminds us of the sacredness of every child and points like a star in the East to our potential for love and compassion. Tonight we will revisit that story.

(Adoration of the Magi, fresco by Giotto di Bondone, 1305-06; in the Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy)

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Service Topic for December 21

A Gift to Give 

Speaker: Reverend Dave Farrington

What would happen if Santa turned his gift-giving powers over to children? Well, I talked with Santa, who confesses he has tried it and the results are more than interesting. Today I’ll share with you what Santa told me!

3rd Sunday potluck will follow the service.

Dave=Santa

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UUFP Book Club

The Book Club is continuing to read the book of the month from December: Sweetness #9 by Stephan Eirik Clark. Clark takes a satirical look at over two decades of food wars, family life and American culture. We will meet on January 24th. A flyer will be posted at UUFP and the website will be updated with the meeting place and time. We hope you read the book and join us for the book club discussion, it’s very interesting!

 

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The main character, David Leveraux, is a flavor chemist who starts his career in 1973 at a company whose new product is an artificial sweetener called Sweetness #9.

His job is to test the product on lab rats and monkeys and monitor the health effects. He reports a lot of side effects that are covered up by the company.

Sweetness #9 soon becomes the artificial sweetener used in diet drinks, and many other foods, and is also marketed in little packets for use in coffee and tea. When Leveraux sees Americans overcome by the symptoms he found in the lab animals — like obesity, rage, depression — he feels personally responsible for not having blown the whistle on the manufacturer.

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Service Topic for December 14

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify mustdoforholidays

Speaker: Reverend Dave Farrington

Thoreau famously said, “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! Well, what would he think of Black Friday and our commercial treatment of Christmas today? Join me as we walk through the world of Thoreau and Emerson and critique the “simplicity” of the world in which we live.

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Service Topic for December 7

Scrooge and Dickensian Dharma 

Speaker: Miranda Van Horn

Lay Leader: CJ Rhoads

ChristmasCarolIn the Preface to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens wrote, “I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly….” In this service we offer a telling of this famous and beloved story and show how it also has become, for some Western Buddhists, a holiday “gem” in their trove of mindfulness practices and teachings.

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Craft Bazaar!

Just in time for holiday shopping!

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