BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16528@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T170000 DTSTAMP:20250531T194220Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-2-2025-05-31/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday) DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday) An exploration of ideas\, feelings \, and our life experiences\, using a different short reading as our sprin gboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays\, 4-5\, and on Wednesdays\ , 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome to come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approa ch we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in w hich we read and converse\, are as important as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a session only an hour long \, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Those who are freq uently in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Z oom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members\, who al so take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session:\n\n\nIn a country where most people are pessimistic abo ut the future and don’t trust the government\, where hope is hard to com e by\, people are longing to believe in something. Religion can offer beli efs\, belonging and behaviors all in one place\; it can enchant life\; mos t importantly\, it tells people that their lives have a purpose.\n\nPeople also want to belong to richer\, more robust communities\, ones that wrest le with hard questions about how to live. They’re looking to heady conce pts — confession\, atonement\, forgiveness\, grace and redemption — fo r answers.\n\n–Lauren Jackson\, "Americans Haven't Found a Satisfying Al ternative to Religion" The New York Times\, April 18\, 2025\n \;\n\n\n How to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j /91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meet ing ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jo se)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile pho nes: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\n This is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to t he Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was f ormerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thin g\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to something o f supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings or to th e universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values \,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentically ours elves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Classes,Learning,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR