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URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/sacred-text-reading-group-2021-04-03/
SUMMARY:Sacred Text Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Sacred Text Reading Group  \n\n\nA weekly online sacred text re
 ading group with Amy\n\nUsing a spiritual-practice approach\, in each sess
 ion we will explore a different brief scriptural text in depth. The aims o
 f the sessions are educational (learning something about the texts and tra
 ditions)\, spiritual/moral (discovering what the texts ask of us)\, and co
 mmunity-building (getting to know each other better). Amy will have a vers
 ion of the text available to share\; “bring” your own if you like. All
  are welcome\, as are your suggestions of future texts. About half our rea
 dings so far have been those suggested by group members.\n\n\nOur text for
  Saturday\, April 3 continues the previous week's theme but\, appropriate 
 to April Fool's Day\, pokes Unitarians in particular in the ribs. It is fr
 om The Varieties of Religious Experience\, William James:\n\n\n\nNot only 
 the cruelty\, but the paltriness of character of the gods believed in by e
 arlier centuries also strikes later centuries with surprise. ... Ritual wo
 rship in general appears to the modern transcendentalist\, as well as to t
 he ultra-puritanic type of mind\, as if addressed to a deity of an almost 
 absurdly childish character\, taking delight in toy-shop furniture\, taper
 s and tinsel\, costume and mumbling and mummery\, and finding his 'glory' 
 incomprehensibly enhanced thereby\; -- just as on the other hand the forml
 ess spaciousness of pantheism appears quite empty to ritualistic natures\,
  and the gaunt theism of evangelical sects seems intolerably bald and chal
 ky and bleak. Luther\, says Emerson\, would have cut off his right hand ra
 ther than nail his theses to the door at Wittenberg\, if he had supposed t
 hat they were destined to lead to the pale negations of Boston Unitarianis
 m.\n\n\n\n\nHow to join:\n\n 	Join this class from your Web browser: https
 ://zoom.us/j/578882781\n 	Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 
 578 882 781\n 	Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\, Meet
 ing ID: 578 882 781\n 	Join this class by on-tap on mobile phones: +166990
 09128\,\,578882781# US (San Jose)\n 	Phoning in\, but not in the bay area?
   Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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CATEGORIES:Adult,Classes,Learning,Small Groups
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