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:17194@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T130000 DTSTAMP:20251105T223729Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/resonant-reading-wednesday-2025-11-12/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)- The Temptation of the Well-Meaning-Mo rrill DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Wednesday)- The Temptation of the Well-Meanin g-Morrill An exploration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a different short reading as our springboard each time. The session s 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 participa nts over the years have found that the approach we take\, and the respectf ul\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, a re 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 rig ht in to the conversation. Those who are frequently in the group get to kn ow each other very well this way\, and those who are new will soon find th ey are among friends.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the r eading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions f or readings* come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\nThe reading for this session: This Wedne sday (11/12 at 12 noon)\nIn 1963\, Robert Kennedy invited James Baldwin\, Lorraine Hansberry\, and other Black visionaries to a Manhattan apartment for what he thought would be a productive chat about race. Kennedy came in confident\, the well-intentioned ally ready to help. But the room did not meet him with applause—it met him with anguish. And when the anguish ch allenged his optimism\, he took it personally. He wanted to help without b eing changed. That’s the temptation of the well-meaning: to seek transfo rmation for others while staying intact ourselves. To love the idea of jus tice more than the practice of humility. But to love truly means being wil ling to be undone.\n\n–Rev. Jake Morrill\, Executive Director\, UU Chris tian Fellowship\n\nHow to join:\n\n\n\n Join this class from your Web bro wser: https://zoom.us/j/96865808923\, passcode 227385\n Join this class u sing the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 968 6580 8923\n Join this class by one-tap on mobile phones: 6699006833\,\,96865808923#  (San Jose)\n Phon ing in\, but not in the Bay Area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.u s/u/abL8clvIYT\n\nThis is the Zoom link for Wednesdays. For the Zoom link for Saturday\, go to Calendar and click on a Saturday session.\n\n\nQuesti ons? 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 misle ading--for one thing\, more often than not our sources are secular--but it 's worth describing the qualities of a sacred text\, which we still look f or in the readings we choose. It is any reading that helps us to:\n\n con nect to something of supreme importance to us\n feel more connected to ot her beings or to the universe\n feel more intensely alive\n align our li ves with our values\,\n perceive or feel more deeply\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:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR