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:17141@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251011T170000 DTSTAMP:20251005T173513Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2025-10-11/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Power of thee State-Judt DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Power of thee State-Judt An explor ation of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different s hort reading as our springboard 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 h ave found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate co mmunity of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as t he 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 convers ation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very w ell 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 a nd calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come fr om group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday\, October 11th\n\n “[The Christian Democratic Parties (e.g.\, in Germany and Italy)]avoided class-based appeals and emphasized instead social and moral reforms. In p articular\, [Christian] insisted upon the importance of the family\, a pro perly Christian theme with significant policy implications at a time when the needs of single-parent\, homeless and destitute families had never bee n greater. Thus Christian Democratic parties were ideally placed to capita lize on virtually every aspect of the post-war condition: the desire for s tability and security\, the expectation of renewal\, the absence of tradit ional right-wing alternatives and the expectations vested in the state—f or in contrast to conventional Catholic politicians of an earlier generati on\, the leaders of Christian Democratic parties and their more radical yo unger followers had no inhibitions about enrolling the power of the state in pursuit of their goals.”\n—Tony Judt\, Postwar\n\n“No state can b e strong unless it is sustained by the conviction of its citizens that the state must be respected and strengthened in the interest of all.”\n—K onrad Adenauer\, Christmas Day Radio Address\, 1962\n\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zo om.us/j/91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom ap p: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mob ile phones: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clv IYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the 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 activit y was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for o ne thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it's worth des cribing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look for in the re adings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n connect to some thing of supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to other beings o r to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be more fully and authentical ly ourselves.\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,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