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:17168@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260418T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T225615Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-saturday-2026-04-18/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Science and religion-Gould DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday)-Science and religion-Gould An expl oration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different short 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 t o come twice a week or once in a while.\n\nThe participants over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in which 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 conve rsation. Those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find they are among frien ds.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to tr y that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: Saturday (4/18 at 4PM)\n\n[S cience and religion each] has a legitimate magisterium\, or domain of teac hing authority-and these magisteria do not overlap (the principle that I w ould like to designate as NOMA\, or "nonoverlapping magisteria"). The net of science covers the empirical universe: what is it made of (fact) and wh y does it work this way (theory). The net of religion extends over questio ns of moral meaning and value. These two magisteria do not overlap\, nor d o they encompass all inquiry (consider\, for starters\, the magisterium of art and the meaning of beauty).\n…\nNOMA … cuts both ways. If religio n can no longer dictate the nature of factual conclusions properly under t he magisterium of science\, then scientists cannot claim higher insight in to moral truth from any superior knowledge of the world's empirical consti tution. This mutual humility has important practical consequences in a wor ld of such diverse passions.\n\nReligion is too important to too many peop le for any dismissal or denigration of the comfort still sought by many fo lks from theology. I may\, for example\, privately suspect that papal insi stence on divine infusion of the soul represents a sop to our fears\, a de vice for maintaining a belief in human superiority within an evolutionary world offering no privileged position to any creature. But I also know tha t souls represent a subject outside the magisterium of science. My world c annot prove or disprove such a notion\, and the concept of souls cannot th reaten or impact my domain. Moreover\, while I cannot personally accept th e Catholic view of souls\, I surely honor the metaphorical value of such a concept both for grounding moral discussion and for expressing what we mo st value about human potentiality: our decency\, care\, and all the ethica l and intellectual struggles that the evolution of consciousness imposed u pon us.\n—Stephen J. Gould (1997). Nonoverlapping Magisteria. Natural Hi story 106(2)\, 16–22.\n\n\nHow to join:\n\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 this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join thi s class by on-tap on mobile phones: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San J ose)\n Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: h ttps://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Saturdays. For th e Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday sessio n.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.\n\n\n  \;\n\n*This activity was formerly called "Sacred Text Reading." That proved misleading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are sec ular--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 feel more con nected to other beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our lives with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\n be mo re 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