FUS Summer Program for Children
Childcare for infants - preschoolers is available. Chalice Camp is open to all children who come to the service and meets at 10:30 a.m. in the Chalice Room. For kids entering 6 - 8 grades, Gabe Aderhold is offering an FUS film club.

 
SCOTT RITTER, author of Target Iran, Waging Peace and Iraq Confidential, was one of UNSCOM's most senior weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, after having served for eight years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. Ritter, who famously and accurately argued that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, stated in an interview with Amy Goodman: "There is no doubt in my mind that the United States is planning right now, as we speak, a military strike against Iran." The former weapons inspector warns that such an attack is unnecessary, and if launched, could provoke a massive response with catastrophic consequences to millions of people, including Americans.

 

Suggested donation: $10 (no one turned away)
A book signing will follow the discussion.

Cosponsored by: First Unitarian Society Social Action Committee, First Universalist Church Pathways to Peace Committee, WAMM, NW Neighbors for Peace, U.S. Tour of Duty, Middle East Peace Now, DoPeace Minnesota, and Ground Zero.
Info: carydberg@comcast.net 

"The most important thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right." - Seymour Hersh

 
You've noticed. The world is getting smaller because of the vast communications networks that exist and the relative ease of movement throughout the world. The United States is becoming increasingly multicultural. Your children are members of the global community right now. In light of this multiculturalism it is so important that your children are religiously literate. It is reported that in the United States alone Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims and various other religious people are practicing their faith. When children don't understand or are not knowledgeable about various religions that they will definitely encounter in this global community, fear can creep into the picture, and when fear raises its ugly head, intolerance is not far behind. 

This is where a Unitarian Universalist religious education can be so valuable to your child. I remember sitting at a Minnesota Department of Education meeting with representatives of all of the major religions in the Twin Cities. The Secretary of Education wanted to probe how the state could make children more tolerance of different traditions and religions. The group agreed that children must learn about various religions, but everyone at the table acknowledged that they only taught their children about their own religion--except me! I was the only one at the table that could say that our children have nine week programs on Native American Spirituality, Buddhism, Islam, the Bible plus our own Unitarian Universalist history and heritage! It was a show stopper for everyone. Clearly we are on the right path! 

 

Take advantage of FUS's Religious Education programming. It's more valuable than soccer, more important than basketball, more life enhancing than ___. You fill in the blank with the activity/lessons that you dutifully drive your child to week after week. Giving your child the gift of religious literacy is helping them to be tolerant, well-versed, and educated children and young adults. And it is here, waiting for you, at the First Unitarian Society every Sunday!
 

- Jan Devor, FUS Director of Religious Education