All services are held on Sunday at 10:30 am at our Sanctuary at
1971 Pinebrook Road, unless otherwise noted.
Sunday Forums are held from 9:00 am to 10:00 in the Sanctuary.
(Sunday Forums will resume in October)
August - September 2008 Services
August 3. Rev. Susanne Nazian’s sermon is entitled “NO ON 2.” Upper case letters means shouting, and I’m doing some. Amendment 2 is morally repugnant to me, and I’ll tell you why.
August 10. Rev. Susanne Nazian will speak on “Homosexuality and the Bible.” Part of my study leave will have been spent taking a course on Homosexuality and the Bible through the Pacific School of Religion. What’s the real truth of the scriptures? How might it have been different if we’d always understood the text?
August 17. Rev. Susanne Nazian will discuss “From Whence Comes Evil?” This is the one I’ve been mulling over for a while now. From World War II to Guantanamo, what psychological glitch allows human beings to visit cruelty on one another and still live what seems to be normal existences.
August 24. Rick McBride, Half-blood Cherokee, will speak on: Applied Prayer, Intentions, Sacred Sites and Quantum Mechanics.
Rick McBride, a mixed-blood Tsalagi (Cherokee), lectures and presents workshops on Native American Spirituality and Lifeways and has spoken at a number of UU Congregations in central and south Florida. His focus is on the Lifeways of the ancestors rather than political activism. The study of the Medicine Wheel, e.g. shows its true purpose of self-knowledge and reflection of Universal Laws. His topic touches on what the Elders have taught, what we have learned from our own experiences and what now is being discovered by Western Science.
August 31. Information about this service will be available in the previous Sunday Order of Service and the weekly InfoNet posting.
September 7. Information about this service will be available in the previous Sunday Order of Service and the weekly InfoNet posting.
September 14. Information about this service will be available in the previous Sunday Order of Service and the weekly InfoNet posting.
September 21. Dr. Robert Tucker, Minister of the UU Congregation of Lakeland, Florida will speak on, Abortion: The Ontological Question.
Dr. Robert Tucker received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Christian Theology from the University of Chicago and his B.A. degree from Texas Christian in Fort Worth, Texas. Originally ordained in the Christian Church, he later transferred to the Unitarian Universalist Association and served congregations in Texas, South Dakota, Virginia and Florida. Since 1995, Dr. Tucker has served as Minister of the UUC of Lakeland, Florida. He is also a founding board member of the Humanist Association of West Central Florida. His topic will outline the six ethical criteria that an action must meet. Abortion does not meet all of these criteria to be considered murder, the chief argument against it.
September 28. Information about this service will be available in the previous Sunday Order of Service and the weekly InfoNet posting.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Venice
