Adult Programs:

Meditation Group, UU Adult Religious Education, Poetry: You Don't Have to Be Afraid Of It, Long Island Great Books

UU Adult Religious Education (U.U.A.R.E.)

Articulating Your UU Faith - Sundays - January 9, 23, 30, February 6 & 13

Articulating Your UU Faith is designed to deepen our grasp of UUism so that we can articulate the meaning of UUism to others. It will explore the Seven Principles or Pillars of the faith, the meaning of words like "religion," "belief" and "faith," and how UUism understands itself alongside other faith traditions. There will be discussions, readings and personal assignments each week.

Contact David McClean for information and registration demcclean@hotmail.com or 516-680-6630.

Poetry: You Don't Have to Be Afraid Of It!

Hosted by Janet Lombardi

Attention All Poetry Lovers: The workshop, "Poetry: You Don't Have to Be Afraid of It!", hosted by Janet Lombardi, will extend into the New Year. Beginning January 10 and continuing on the second Monday of every month, poetry lovers will get a friendly dose of poetry to read, dissect, and discuss. As with the last three sessions, there is no writing required, just the willingness to share your thoughts about the works presented. And if you have a poem you'd like to share, please bring it, along with copies (about 10) for the group. Meetings start at 7:30 and meet in the Senior Youth Room (Room 1). Please let Janet Lombardi know if you plan to attend. Last minute attendees welcome.

The second Monday of the month - Beginning January 10, 2005

Meditation Group

UUCCN Meditation Group

The UUCCN Meditation group meets on Friday nights at 7:30 pm. Contact Karen Zampa Leon at KZ2@AOL.COM and John Cottone (please put Meditation Group Question in your subject line) for more information.

Long Island Great Books

Now heading into its second season

A discussion group of great writings that meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m.

Readings: December 16th - "Individual Freedom" by Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
Taken from Simmel's The Philosophy of Money. Come and raise your consciousness and understanding of what individual freedom means in the age of the Patriot Act.

Simmel wrote about some of the most pressing issues in the modern world: the function of money, the fate of individual identity in city life, and the fear of the outsider that pervades society - not so irrelevant after all? He once said "Feelings of isolation are rarely as decisive and intense when one is actually alone as when one is a stranger among physically close persons at a party, on a train, or in a city."

January 20th - Sophocles' Antigone
February 17th - John Dewey's Habits and Will
March 17th - John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
April 21st - Shakespear's Hamlet

May 19th - The Bible's The Gospel of Mark
June 16th - Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesain War