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Unitarian Universalist PEACE Fellowship, Raleigh, NC (4104 Watkins Rd. 27616) Map and Directions

Sunday Services — Variety of speakers and topics Infant and Childcare available during Sunday Worship
Sunday Forum (on scheduled dates) – 8:30 to 10 am before the Worship Service - Time and dates listed below:
AfterWords Discussion – Following some Sunday Services, a casual moderated discussion for those who want to explore the topic further.
First Sunday of the Month – Following the service — Joint Council Meeting of UUPF leaders, committee representatives and any one else who would like to attend.
Congregational Meetings – (Committee of the Whole): January 30th, April 24; June 5 - Congregational Annual Meeting (others tbd)

May 6 – The Interconnected Web of Shifting Global Power – Presented by the Sunday Forum Team
No man is an Island, entire of itself……….any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.” *
Paddy Ashdown, British legislator and diplomat, claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. It has become apparent that now more than ever countries and people are intimately locked together giving meaning to the meditation quoted above. *John Donne, Meditation XVII English clergyman & poet (1572 - 1631)
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Following the service and coffee hour, the Coordinating Council meets on May 6, to do the business of the church. All are welcomed to stay.

May 13 –

Sunday Forum: 8:30 AM ~Continental breakfast and discussion~ Visitors welcomed
Nature, spirit and the human condition — Acclaimed author Barry Lopez joins Bill Moyers to discuss nature, spirit and the human condition. Lopez is an essayist, author and short-story writer, whose many books include ARCTIC DREAMS, winner of the National Book Award and OF WOLVES AND MEN, a National Book Award finalist

Service: 10:30 AM — The Boundaries of Holiness —
Dr. Margarita Suarez, PhD, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, Meredith College
If the Book of Leviticus reminds us throughout its pages that we should be holy as God is holy, there must be a way to reach holiness. Is holiness to be set apart from the world, where we ignore the things of the world and focus on spirituality? Should holiness be thought of as a pure, unbounded state of sinlessness? Is the idea of holiness being connected to God undefinable? We will explore the religious idea of holiness.

May 20 – How Will Your Garden Grow? –
Rev. Margaret L. Beard, Consulting Assistant Minister at the Eno River UU Fellowship, Durham, NC
Congregations have many similarities to gardens: both are living organic systems. What do they grow and how do they grow it? What might be your role in the garden?

Sunday Forum 8:30– 10:00 AM ~Continental breakfast and discussion~ Visitors welcomed
A kinder, gentler philosophy of success. — Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.

Service: 10:30 Danny Gotham, guitarist Community Church Chapel Hill, UU and Rev. Joan Gelbein

June 3 — Beloved Community — presented by UUPF's Healthy Congregation Committee

Sunday Forum: 8:30 AM If I should have a daughter… — Spoken word poet, Sarah Kay, tells the story of her metamorphosis — from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York's Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E.

Service: 10:30 AM
Appreciation Service and Congregational Mtg. UUPF Officers — This will be our annual congregational meeting with recognition of volunteers and proposed slate of officers and budget for the coming fiscal year.

June 17 — Service: Flower Communion — Rev. Joan Gelbein
Bringing a flower to share is an annual spring tradition in many UU communities. The Rev. Norbert Capek, who perished in a Nazi death camp, originated the service in 1923 at his Unitarian church in Prague. The Flower Communion symbolizes the spiritual community we create in our congregations and expresses a commitment to our Sixth Principle. The New-member Welcoming Ceremony will take place.

Sunday Forum 8:30– 10:00 AM
Life’s Third Act — Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy -- and these years aren’t just a footnote or a pathology. Jane Fonda asks how we can think about this new phase of our lives.

Service: — Annual Youth Religious Education Service The UUPF youth will conduct this service.
Guest musicians are the Raleigh Youth Orchestra.
A backyard cookout and ice cream social will follow the service.