Pathways
Come join our Ministers, Becky and Mark Edmiston-Lange as they present an excellent program for prospective and new Emersonians. They’d love to meet you. The next session will be Saturday, September 27, 2008 from 9am to noon. It’s a great opportunity for every visitor and new member to learn more about UU and what the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church has to offer in particular. You’ll move through a series of discussions about different aspects of Unitarian Universalism, interact with your fellow Unitarian Universalists, and tour the campus.

Childcare is provided. Come for the entire program or as much as you can fit into your day. To sign up contact Susanna Painter, our church Secretary, at (713)782-8250, or e-mail her.

“First Friday” Film Nights—7:15pm
Good Company! Great Movies!
We gather to view a meritorious (but still entertaining) motion picture on the First Friday night of each month. This program is fun as well as enlightening. A $2.00 donation is requested, to cover the cost of all the popcorn, soda pop, and candy you can reasonably consume.
Delaney Hall Rooms 205/6

September 5 : Juno

Sunday Morning Book Club
The Sunday Morning Book Club will start again September 14. We meet from 10:00–11:00 a.m. in Delaney Hall room 204. The book discussion group has a theology/religion focus and is led by Susan Green. Each book is discussed over a leisurely four to six weeks. In the fall, we’ll discuss “The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions” by Karen Armstrong; “What on Earth have I done” by Robert Fulgham; and “Happiness: A history” by Darrin McMahon and watch the movie “what the bleep do we know.”

If you order books(or anything else) from Amazon using the link here it will generate a small rebate to Emerson.

From the Amazon description of The Great Transformation:

From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought.

In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have endured to the present day—the development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Armstrong, one of our most prominent religious scholars, examines how these traditions began in response to the violence of their time. Studying figures as diverse as the Buddha and Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah, Armstrong reveals how these still enduring philosophies can help address our contemporary problems.