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:17167@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260411T034510Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2026-04-11/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday\, 4/11)-Not Meeting DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday\, 4/11)-Not Meeting An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different short r eading 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 t wice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have fo und that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate communit y of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important as the rea ding itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in\, with a sessio n only an hour long\, Resonant Reading jumps right in to the conversation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well th is 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 cal ling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from gro up members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that r ole.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday\, April 11\n\n[Science and religion each] has a legitimate magisterium\, or domain of teaching author ity-and these magisteria do not overlap (the principle that I would like t o designate as NOMA\, or "nonoverlapping magisteria"). The net of science covers the empirical universe: what is it made of (fact) and why does it w ork this way (theory). The net of religion extends over questions of moral meaning and value. These two magisteria do not overlap\, nor do they enco mpass all inquiry (consider\, for starters\, the magisterium of art and th e meaning of beauty).\n…\nNOMA … cuts both ways. If religion can no lo nger dictate the nature of factual conclusions properly under the magister ium of science\, then scientists cannot claim higher insight into moral tr uth from any superior knowledge of the world's empirical constitution. Thi s mutual humility has important practical consequences in a world of such diverse passions.\nReligion is too important to too many people for any di smissal or denigration of the comfort still sought by many folks from theo logy. I may\, for example\, privately suspect that papal insistence on div ine infusion of the soul represents a sop to our fears\, a device for main taining a belief in human superiority within an evolutionary world offerin g no privileged position to any creature. But I also know that souls repre sent a subject outside the magisterium of science. My world cannot prove o r disprove such a notion\, and the concept of souls cannot threaten or imp act my domain. Moreover\, while I cannot personally accept the Catholic vi ew of souls\, I surely honor the metaphorical value of such a concept both for grounding moral discussion and for expressing what we most value abou t human potentiality: our decency\, care\, and all the ethical and intelle ctual struggles that the evolution of consciousness imposed upon us.\n--St ephen J. Gould (1997). Nonoverlapping Magisteria. Natural History 106(2)\, 16–22.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\nHow 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: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join thi s class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Saturda ys. For the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednes day session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa. org.\n\n\n \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Readi ng." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sourc es 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 of supreme importance to us\n fee l more connected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deepl y\n be more fully and authentically 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:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR