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Senior Brunch
Wednesday, January 11
11am-1pm
For Senior Brunch on January 11, we’ll listen to and discuss the TED program titled “A Political Party for Women’s Equality” by Sandi Toksvig. “Women’s equality won’t just happen — not unless more women are put in positions of power”, says Sandi Toksvig.
In a disarmingly hilarious talk, Toksvig tells the story of how she helped start a new political party in Britain, the Women’s Equality Party, with the express purpose of putting equality on the ballot. Now she hopes people around the world will copy her party’s model and mobilize for equality.
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January Book Club
January 13
7-9pm at the home of Mary Lou Elson
January’s book is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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BUUF Board Meeting
January 15 @ 8:30am
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Sunday Service
January 15
Join us this Sunday for a service called “Captain Kirk and Darth Vader Meet in a Dark Alley” with a talk given by Rev. Jim McConnell. June Blackwell will lead. The theme is about UU beliefs with a little grace and reconciliation thrown in.
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Creative Conversations
January 18 @ 7pm
For Creative Conversations on January 18, we’ll continue with the theme of ending apathy by listening to and discussing the TED program titled “It’s Time to Reclaim Religion” by Rabbi Sharon Brous. “At a moment when the world seems to be spinning out of control, religion might feel irrelevant — or like part of the problem. But Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we can reinvent religion to meet the needs of modern life. In this impassioned talk, Brous shares four principles of a revitalized religious practice and offers faith of all kinds as a hopeful counter-narrative to the numbing realities of violence, extremism and pessimism.”
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Environmental Justice Film Series presents:
Catching the Sun
January 19, 2016 @ 7 PM
Doors open at 6:30
This event is FREE — BYOB — popcorn included
An unemployed American worker, a Tea Party activist, and a Chinese solar entrepreneur race to lead the clean energy future. But who wins and who loses the battle for power in the 21st century? Through the stories of workers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China, Catching the Sun captures the global race to lead the clean energy future. Over the course of a solar jobs training program, Catching the Sun follows the hope and heartbreak of unemployed American workers seeking jobs in the solar industry. With countries like China investing in innovative technologies and capitalizing on this trillion-dollar opportunity, Catching the Sun tells the story of the global energy transition from the perspective of workers and entrepreneurs building solutions to income inequality and climate change with their own hands. Their successes and failures speak to one of the biggest questions of our time: will the U.S. actually be able to build a clean energy economy? The movie is about 60 min. long, and afterwards we’ll have a discussion about what actions we can all take on this important issue.
