Topic: Five Smooth Stones

An Attitude of Ultimate Optimism

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Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
An Attitude of Ultimate Optimism
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James Luther Adams asserted that while immediate optimism was unrealistic, “the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism.” We’ll take a close look at that claim in this final service on Adams’s tenets of religious liberalism. World AIDS Day is, strangely enough, an apt day for such an exploration. Music: Veronika Agranov Dafoe, piano

Prophets of a New World

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Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Prophets of a New World
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“A faith that is not the sister of justice is bound to bring us to grief,” James Luther Adams wrote. Religion isn’t primarily about what we believe, but about what we do: specifically, what we do to bring about the world we long for. Special Music: Season of Us
Appropriately, we will be giving the Peg Capron Social Justice Award to Jane Glauz this morning.

On a Mission to Discover What’s Out There

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Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
On a Mission to Discover What's Out There
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In this first of a series, we’ll look at the profoundly transformative idea that truth continues to be revealed and that the future therefore holds more to discover.
Special Music: Margaret Davis and Kristoph, harp and guitar
Today’s entire offering collection will be donated to Hotel de Zink.