Adult RE
The Adult RE Committee would like to extend a special invitation to singles and new members. If you need a ride or babysitting, please contact Win Munro, 508 548-4695 a few days in advance.
Wednesday, February 1 at 7:00pm: “Art Therapy: Its Practice and Uses” by Cheri Weber, Art Therapist.
Art Therapy is one of many Expressive Therapies but perhaps is the best known. Like the others it is used to treat ailing conditions of many sorts–physical, emotional, and spiritual. Cheri will begin with a brief history and explanation of art therapy, and then show by example the insights and benefits from it. This is intended as a program for general interest, not as a program for artists.
Cheri has a B. A. degree in psychology and art therapy from Leslie University and is pursuing an M.A. in expressive therapy/art therapy. She is a counselor in a jail alternative residential program and uses expressive therapies along with other types of therapy. She is also a wife and mother whose family have been UUFF members for 16 years.
Wednesday, February 8 at 7:00pm: “Faithful Choices 2” presented by Lyn Dalzell.
We will continue a medical ethics discussion using the UUA curriculum Faithful Choices. Again we shall discuss 3 individual cases. The emphasis will be on understanding the medical facts, the ethical dilemmas and spiritual dimensions of each case. These cases are short –fewer than 1½ pages– and will be available in the office. Lyn Dalzell, who is a physician assistant, has taught this course in the past and will lead the discussion.
Wednesday, February 15: “The World According to Monsanto”: Potluck and Film
This combined ARTE France and National Film Board of Canada is a chronicle of the damage to the natural environment, to communities, and to individuals resulting from the products and practices of Monsanto chemical. Beginning in the 40′’s, continuing to the present, and traveling to sites around the world, the film shows the vast trail of harms from Monsanto’s products: from PCB’s to Agent Orange to Round Up to its most recent developments. It devotes attention to the corporation’s expansive promotion of genetically modified crops around the world. These crops are shown not only to have potential dangers as food but also to threaten other kinds of agriculture and agricultural markets around the world. Throughout the film Monsanto is shown as a corporate giant that creates and markets narrowly useful products but is careless and heedless of their wider long term consequences. One reviewer characterized the film as “scrupulous, thorough, and damning”. It will be followed by a brief 18 minute film that shows an example of successful, practical resistance to a Monsanto agricultural by consumers.
Wednesday, Febbrary 22 at 7:00pm: “My Trip to Egypt” with Rev. Murphy
Rev. Bob Murphy, our congregation’s minister, will have returned from Egypt. He’ll discuss the Arab Spring with special attention given to economic and environmental justice issues. Rev. Murphy will visit religious leaders and human rights activists in Egypt and pay special attention to food, water, and energy issues that have received special attention during his visit.
Wednesday, February 29 at 7:00pm: “Corporations As Persons in Election Campaigns?”
A Forum on the Supreme Court’s Decision in the Citizens United Case: In 2010 in the Citizens United case the Supreme Court decided that corporations–like persons–have a First Amendment right to engage in election related spending, independently from a candidate’s campaign. In this forum Stuart Graham, a retired attorney, and Reverend Edmund Robinson, a former attorney and minister, will explore the legal, ethical, and political issues raised by this controversial Supreme Court decision. They will also discuss some recent, prominent proposals, set forth, to overturn this decision or to mitigate its effects. At all points they will encourage questions and comments from the audience.
Stuart Graham was an attorney at the U.S Office of Economic Opportunity and then an associate specializing in municipal law at the Boston firm of Palmer and Dodge. For more than twenty years he was a civil rights attorney in the Office of General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Edmund Robinson was a trial and appellate lawyer with the ACLU, litigating constitutional cases. He was ordained a Unitarian-Universalist minister and, after serving in three other parishes, came to Chatham in 2008. For two years he has worked with a Cape Cod group to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United ruling; more recently he introduced this amendment into the Chatham Town Meeting which passed it. In September at the Falmouth Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship he preached a sermon, “Do Corporations Have Souls?”.