“Lessons Learned from a Wedding” — Applying Buddhist Principles to Our Daily Lives
Host: Dale Bostock
Facilitator: Michael Johnson
This week, Michael Johnson will be our facilitator. His program is titled ” Lessons Learned from a Wedding (Applying Buddhist Principals to Our Daily Lives).
Please join us for this informative topic.
REMINDER
Sunday, June 1, 2014 we will be having our Annual Congregational Meeting immediately following our Sunday Service.
In addition, we will be having a covered dish (pot luck). Please being an item or items to share. If you are unable no problem.
Reflection question: “How in touch are you with the messages of your body?
Rev. Straube, lead minister of the San Diego Unitarian Universalist Church will discuss our bodies. Many people identify more with their cars, their homes than their bodies but “your body is you.” Rev. Straub goes on to say “most of us are messed up with regard to our own bodies.”
Join us this Sunday to hear Rev. Straube’s video presentation of how we should care for our bodies to make them complete: physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Rev. Straube’s earned his Masters of Divinity from the University of Chicago, and his Doctor of Ministry from Meadville Lombard in Chicago. Rev. Straube recently celebrated 36 years of Unitarian-Universalist ministry and will retire next month.
The Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship meets every Sunday beginning at 10:30 AM at the Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone Street West in Twin Falls.
Newcomers are always welcome. Child care is available. We are handicapped accessible. Please park in the front of the building.
This week’s program will be another from the Great Courses company.
The presenter is Professor Grant L. Voth. He is professor Emeritus in English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Monterrey Peninsula College and an expert in world literature.
The title of the our lecture this Sunday is: “Mesopotamian and Hebrew Flood Myths”.
In this program, Dr. Voth compares Very early Flood myths with the stories in Genesis. These are stories that those of us from Christian backgrounds have heard all our lives and perhaps even taken as truth.
Myths explain who we are and why the world is the way it is; all before the advent of modern science. Do we modern people still have our myths? Some would say the Big Bang Theory is our Creation Myth. What do you think?
The Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship meets every Sunday beginning at 10:30 AM at the Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone Street West in Twin Falls.
Newcomers are always welcome. Child care is available. We are handicapped accessible. Please park in the front of the building.
For information, please contact Ken Whiting at 734-9161.
This week’s program will be a video (a talk by Ajahn Brahm,the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia) titled “Is Buddhism an Atheist Religion?”
The Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship meets every Sunday beginning at 10:30 AM at the Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone Street West in Twin Falls.
Newcomers are always welcome. Child care is available. We are handicapped accessible. Please park in the front of the building. For information, please contact Ken Whiting at 208-734-9161.
Magic Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship(MVUUF)
Twin Falls Senior Center
530 Shoshone Street West
Twin Falls, ID 83301
Mailing Address:
PO Box 5171
Twin Falls, ID 83303-5171
Teenagers these days live in an exciting yet confusing world. How should we best advise them for the future? If you were asked to advise the rising generation of tomorrow what would you say?
Join us this Sunday for a discussion about how to best advise the leaders of tomorrow. In preparation for this discussion please consider the following questions: What is success? How do you achieve it? What is happiness? How do you achieve it? What matters most? How do you hold on to it? What is you purpose? How do you realize it?
For information, please contact Ken Whiting at 734-9161.
PLEASE NOTE: This Sunday’s service will NOT take place at the Senior Center
Facilitator/Host: Marion Wallace
“How I Discovered the Unitarian-Universalist Religion (An Informal Gathering at the Home of the Whitings)”
Please join us Sunday, April 27th beginning 10:30 AM at the home of the Whitings, for an informal service titled “How I Discovered the Unitarian-Universalist Religion.”
Everyone is invited to explore the Unitarian-Universalist faith and also to discuss thoughts that may have inspired (or did not inspire) him or her regarding religion. We will have an open discussion regarding various religious thoughts as well as thoughts that perhaps may be in the minds of those who feel they have no religion (i.e. atheists, those disillusioned by religion in general, etc.).
Members and regular visitors will discuss their own presonal thoughts pertaining to why they attend the Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship.
The Whitings’ home is located at 2529 E 3707 N (Windmill Heights) just outside Twin Falls (near Curry Crossing). For directions, please call Ken Whiting at 208-734-9161 or email mvuuf83301@yahoo.com for directions — or use this Google Maps link.
This will be an informal service since the Twin Falls Senior Center, where the Magic Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship usually meets, is having a special event this Sunday and is not available for our usual meeting location.
We hope to see you! Everyone is welcome.
For those who are able, please bring a covered dish (pot luck) for everyone to enjoy after the service.
For further information, please contact Ken Whiting at 208-734-9161.
Through the art of poetry we connect with the world around us and come to a greater understanding of one another.
Please bring a poem that provides a spiritual message that moves you and has made a special impact on your life.
The poem can be something old or new, famous or not, something you wrote or just really enjoy and think others will too.
Please be prepared to tell us why you selected your poem and why you like it.
We hope to see you!
The Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship meets every Sunday beginning at 10:30 AM at the Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone Street West in Twin Falls.
Newcomers are always welcome. Child care is available.
This week’s program will be an online service titled “The Art of Listening.” Join us this Sunday for this interesting service and lively discussion.
The Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship meets every Sunday beginning at 10:30 AM at the Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone Street West in Twin Falls.
Newcomers are always welcome. Child care is available. We are handicapped accessible. Please park in the front of the building.
For information, please contact Ken Whiting at 734-9161.
This week’s program will be a video from the Great Courses series: “The Spiritual Brain” featuring Dr. Andrew Newberg. Dr. Newberg is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
Our program this Sunday will explore answers to the questions: How do religious and spiritual ideas have an impact on our brains and why do some people develop compassion while others develop hatred as part of their religious beliefs?
We will also see how brains of mediators and non-mediators develop differently and what that might mean in our lives.
The Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship meets every Sunday beginning at 10:30 AM at the Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone Street West in Twin Falls.
Newcomers are always welcome. Child care is available. We are handicapped accessible.
Please park in the front of the building.
For information, please contact Ken Whiting at 734-9161.
Marion Wallace will lead a discussion pertaining to the “Holy Grail.”
Points to be discussed with regard to Marion’s topic of the “Holy Grail” are as follows:
The definition of “Finding the Holy Grail”
Examples of people who are considered to have found the Holy Grail
What is Your Holy Grail?
For those unacquainted with the “Holy Grail” here are a few videos to acquaint you with this subject:
Holy Grail Legend Endures for Centuries
Photo: Holy grail painting
This 1895 painting by Edwin Austin Abbey shows the Arthurian knight Sir Galahad discovering the fabled Holy Grail. The famous chalice earned its spiritual power as the cup used by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper.
By Richard A. Lovett
In the Bible, the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper is little more than a prop, given no particular prominence. But over the centuries, the fate of this now legendary vessel, the so-called Holy Grail, has come to haunt stories ranging from Arthurian legend to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Because Jesus used the cup during the Last Supper in what became the basis for the Christian Eucharist, the Grail has for many taken on the aura of an extremely holy relic.
The Grail takes on even greater significance from tales that Joseph of Arimathea, in whose tomb Jesus was placed prior to his resurrection, used the cup to collect Jesus’ blood while he was being crucified.
Theories abound as to where the cup eventually went. One says the Knights Templar, a medieval military order that persisted for more than 200 years, took it from Jerusalem during the Crusades.
There’s also a story in which Joseph carries the Grail to Glastonbury, England, a Roman outpost at the time of Christ’s crucifixion. In 1906, in fact, a blue bowl claimed by some to be the Grail was found there, and since then at least four other cups have been proclaimed to be the Grail, two from England and Wales and two from the Middle East.
But the reality, says historian Richard Barber, author of The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, is that the Grail stories are just that—stories.
‘Poet With a Remarkable Imagination’
“The whole thing is basically the imagination of a 12th-century poet,” he says.
The poet, Chrétien de Troyes, created the initial, “fairly unspecific” story, Barber says, as a way of examining the theology of the Roman Catholic Mass.
“That may sound terribly obscure,” he says, “but in the 12th century, the nearest you got to drama, theater, and spectacle, if you were an ordinary person, was the celebration of Mass.”
In working through his story, Barber says, Chrétien worked backward from his own time to the time of Christ. “So you’ve got a poet with a remarkable imagination who invents the idea of the Grail.”
In fact, Barber says, the most remarkable thing about the legend is simply the fact that the story appears to have originated with a single writer. “There are so many people out there looking for the thing,” he says. “Actually it’s more exciting that someone can imagine something in the 12th century … that is still a hot concept 800 years later.”
Not that this means there wasn’t a cup. But even if it still exists, Barber asks, how would you know if you found it? “You are not going to come up with a cup with a neat label tied around it saying ‘This is the cup of the Last Supper, guaranteed authentic.'”
Archaeologist Fred Hiebert, a National Geographic Society fellow, agrees. “I’m always interested in finding remains of ancient people, especially pottery or metal vessels,” he says. But when it comes to linking any such object to a specific legend or biblical story? “We can’t do it.”
The Magic Valley Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship meets every Sunday beginning at 10:30 AM at the Twin Falls Senior Center, 530 Shoshone Street West in Twin Falls.
Newcomers are always welcome. Child care is available. We are handicapped accessible. Please park in the front of the building.
For information, please contact Ken Whiting at 734-9161.
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