January - February 2008
Riverside-Salem
UCC/DC
January – February, 2008
Program Schedule
All
programs from 4-6 p.m. Sundays at the Cottage (3449 West River Road,
Grand Island), unless otherwise indicated. Other events of interest
in italics. For information/confirmation: 773-1426 (June) or www.riversidesalem.org
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Jan. 6 BUSINESS MEETING [Epiphany] & Discussion of organizing
in faith communities, particularly UCC/DC, to help pass the Time
to Care Act (Paid Family Medical Leave Act) in New York State
(A.1301/S.1501).
- Jan.
12 Erie County and the City of Buffalo will again be hosting a
post-holiday electronics and textile recycling event from 9-1
at the Buffalo Zoo parking lot (Parkside & Jewett).
For
three January Sundays* [in the bleak mid-winter], we will explore
the concept and nature of evil, accepting that evil can reside
in each one of us. We affirm that to withstand evil in the world,
we must first face what lies within each of our hearts. [We
have met the enemy and he is us—Pogo.] We will close with
an evening devoted to frank exploration and sharing of our personal
knowledge of the evil within and how we have found or hope to
find paths to empathy, compassion, and love. [‘Twas Grace
that taught my heart to fear/And Grace my fear relieved—“Amazing
Grace,” John Newton]
We plan to use the writings and experiments of others to help
us with our own explorations—particularly, Hannah Arendt’s
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Philip
Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect (based on his Stanford Prison
Experiment), and a report of Milgram’s Yale Experiment
(referred to in the DVD on Abu Ghraib that we will begin with).
We will have some copies of articles & summaries that will
be available both in hard copy and as attachments to emails.
If you want but don’t receive the copies, please contact
June (773-1426 or jlicence@buffalo.edu) or Jon (829-9784 or
jonrg@verizon.net).
- Jan. 13 DVD
on Abu Ghraib and beginning discussion on the concept/nature of
Evil
- Jan. 17 Network
of Religious Communities Annual Meeting, Temple Beth Am, 4660
Sheridan Drive, Williamsville. $25 per person. Information/reservations:
882-4793.
- Jan. 20 We
will continue our discussion of Evil, focused by the writings
of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem:
A report on the Banality of Evil.”
- Jan 21-23
An Interfaith Dialogue on Religion and Violence: Untangling the
Roots of Conflict,” Trinity Episcopal Church, 461 E. Main
St., Hamburg. The
registration fee is $25.
Jan. 27 Discussion of Milgram’s Yale Experiment and Zimbardo’s
Stanford Prison Experiment and what they might lead us to know/say
about ourselves and our capacity knowingly to harm others.
Feb. 3 ANNUAL MEETING (Business + Election of Officers + Adoption
of Budget)
Feb. 10 Barbara
& Angelo LaDuca, “Our Philosophy of Traveling, in Particular,
to New Zealand” (which they did last September)
Feb. 17 Elea
Mihou, “New Vision/Direction for the WNY Peace Center.”
Elea, the new Director of the Peace Center, has a Master’s
degree in Urban Planning from UB and worked in mental health in
Cincinnati and for the Northern Kentucky University Department of
Multicultural Affairs. She founded and built a multiracial student
organization that worked for reconciliation in Guatemala and sanctions
on Iraq (before the war). We welcome Elea and hope to learn how
we can support her work.
Feb. 20 UB Green
Office holds Town Hall meeting on UB Green Climate Action Report
at Unitarian Universalist Church on Elmwood in Buffalo, 7 p.m.
Feb. 24 Marjorie
Buscher, Traveling to China (last October)
March 2 BUSINESS MEETING
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