The Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma
An Oasis for Heart and Mind Every Sunday in Downtown Petaluma

For complete up-to-date info on the Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma, see our website: www.uupetaluma.org

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SUNDAY SERVICES

(Social time with refreshments begins at 10:00 am , at the Petaluma Woman's Club, 518 B Street. Worship service begins at 10:30 am. )

Sunday, February 18: "The New Atheism"
Guest Speaker Leland Bond-Upson
Worship Associate Mike Iritz
As Leland foreshadowed last month in his criticism of the Catholic Church and its pedophilia problem, and his condemnation of fundamentalism in Christianity and Islam, maybe we shouldn't let bad religion get the polite pass any more. What does the new atheism teach? Is more to be gained than lost by its adoption? Is it possible to reject religious nonsense but retain a reverent sensibility, to be a religious atheist? Many in the new atheism movement are saying 'No'! 'Zat right?

Sunday, February 25: "Charting the Course"
Guest Speaker Meredith Guest
Worship Associate Stacey Meinzen
As UUP charts its course into the future, it is potentially important and useful to consider what others who are similar to us have done and how they have avoided the pitfalls common to the progressive religious movement. Come and consider how another progressive spiritual community, now some fifty years old, has made its way and what that might mean for us.

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Do You Love a Parade?

For three of the last four years, UUP has participated in Petaluma's quintessential small-town event, the annual Butter and Egg Days Parade (we won awards twice!). This year, as always, the parade will wind its way through downtown on the last Saturday in April (April 28). The parade theme will celebrate 150 years of the Petaluma Fire Department. If you'd like to be the point person for UUP's participation, the Membership, Outreach and Hospitality Committee would love to provide backup help in organizing our entry for the year. (Some ideas came up: Red T-Shirts with flaming chalices and a slogan along the lines of "You'll Never Put Out Our Fire!" or something like that...) The entry can be a simple walking group or a float.

Contact Elaine Ellsworth if you are interested! This is a great way to get to know people at UUP, and it gives our community a high profile in the larger community.

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Regularly Scheduled Gatherings

-Larking About (UUP Choir): Rehearsal Sunday at 9:30 am at the Woman's Club and Tuesday at 8pm at David and Diana's house.
-UUP Women's Group: Monday, Feb. 19 th at 7:30 pm at Jean Conrad's house.

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