Worship & Music Notes

Last month we enjoyed presentations from Rebecca Phillips and Brand Bond celebrating Evolution Sunday. Thank you. We are also grateful to Ernie and Nancy Novak for their extensive research into the art and architecture of our historic church building. Their presentation was very informative. It was a pleasure to host Mary Grigolia as a guest speaker on congregational singing. About 15 people also participated in an engaging afternoon workshop on singing meditation. If you are interested in learning more about her you can visit www.marygrigolia.com. As always, we extend a big thank you to everyone who contributes to the sound, music, speaking portions of our Sunday services. Thank you to Randall Kidder for his excellent music and to the beautiful contributions of the choir. All of your contributions are very much appreciated.

In March we are looking forward to a service on March 7th led by Kerry Blair on the topic “Why is this your Chosen Faith?” We are excited to have Melissa Cox and her band, Mythica as a special musical guest in the March 14th service. From March into May the RELIGIOUS EXPLORATIONS discussion group will be using the book, A Chosen Faith, to explore our liberal religious faith and specifically the six sources of it articulated in our Unitarian Universalist Association covenant. This series should be very helpful to newcomers and long time members alike. The discussions will be helpful and effective on a stand-alone basis, but we do encourage participants to participate in as many of the sessions as they can. The purpose of the book and this series of discussions are perhaps best expressed by a quote from its preface: “If you are a Unitarian Universalist, this book can help speak your faith. I promise that you will find it an exhilarating experience… If you are not (or not yet) a Unitarian Universalist, you will learn more about who we are, and why we are, from these pages.”