January 1 – Rev. Cynthia Johnson

HAPPY NEW YEAR, MR. PODSNAP If Mr. Podsnap happens to be vacationing in Door County on January 1, I suppose we’ll have to welcome him warmly if he comes to the Fellowship. I don’t think he’d like what we’ll say and do on New Year’s Day, but I think we will. Cynthia Johnson, a retired …

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January 8 – Rev. Joan Shiels

REEL SPIRITUALITY: ENLIGHTENMENT AT THE MOVIES We think we watch movies for simple entertainment but good films, like all good art, reflect us and change us at the same time. Many of the most popular films of our generation carry strong theological and spiritual messages. This is a close look at a few of those …

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January 15 – Rev. Cynthia Johnson

A TIME TO LIVE, A TIME TO DIE Whether we like it or not, someday our one precious life will end. What do we need to do ahead of time to make it better for us — and the people who love us — then? Let’s start by thinking about how tenderly we help our pets in their …

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January 22 – Rev. Phil Sweet

THE DIFFICULTY OF HELPING The question comes from the mythological story of Cain and Abel: Are we our brothers Keepers? It is a question that religious people have assumed to be simple and simple in its answer. But it is not. The sociologist Garrett Harden speaking about altruism and helping says: “…about the only thing …

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January 29 – The UUFDC Governing Board

FORWARD THROUGH THE AGES Members of the UUFDC Professional Leadership Task Force want your input as we study our congregation’s leadership needs to bring us to the next level in our development as individuals and as a congregation. All options are on the table. We want to explore together our potential moving forward. Several members …

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January 1 – Rev. Cynthia JohnsonJanuary 8 – Rev. Joan ShielsJanuary 15 – Rev. Cynthia JohnsonJanuary 22 – Rev. Phil SweetJanuary 29 – The UUFDC Governing Board

Capturing the Beauty of Landscapes in Pastel

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December 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

By Jane Delcarson

Dianne Saron’s work will be featured in the gallery in a titled show “Capturing the Beauty of Landscapes in Pastel”. An opening reception will be held Friday, January 6, 4-6 pm. The exhibit will continue through February.

Saron moved to Door County in 2001.  She had worked primarily in black and white portraiture.  In retirement she  found time for her passion to portray the beauty all around her. She comments, “The breathtaking winter sunsets that seem to be on fire, or the light as it reflects on water and rocks just beg to be painted ”.

Sunrise at Sunset Resort

Soon after moving here, while attending classes taught by Mary Bosman, Saron discovered a new love for pastels to augment her efforts to capture the beauty of the settings.

Trees Mountain

As an avid student, interested in various techniques and the many opportunities for learning, Saron soon was to be acclaimed for her talent. She gives credit to several of the artist teachers at the Peninsula School of Art.  Her painting “Sunrise at the Sunset Resort on Washington Island” will be shown in this exhibit and has won honorable mention at the Fairfield Art Museum.  Other paintings to be shown have been in other invitational, juried shows.  Currently her paintings can be seen at the Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay and the Paint Box Gallery, Ephraim.

Dock at Sunset

Diane is co-chair of the Guenzel Gallery, Peninsula School of Art and is the program chairman for the Door County Art League.  She is also a member of the Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh, WI, the Francis Hardy Center for the Arts in Ephraim, the Miller Art Museum volunteers, Sturgeon Bay and the cooperative gallery of the Door County Art League, Fish Creek.

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UUFDC Website Features

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December 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

By Marilyn Hansotia

The New Year brings a new feature to our UUFDC Members and Friends. We have added a password-protected tab near the top of the home page www.uufdc.org that will be updated regularly with information pertinent to our congregation. Some items posted there include Member and Friend contact lists, policies for our Memorial Garden and Building Use. Other items will be added as we explore the possibilities.

We will email the password to all Members and Friends on our email distribution list. Once you click on the Members & Friends tab on the website you will be asked to enter this password. It may take a few minutes for this to load the first time you attempt to access it. Be patient! All computers are not created equally! If you have trouble getting into this portion of our website, contact either our Administrator Pat Crow at the office contact@uufdc.org and me at mhansotia@charter.net

Where can you find the most up-to-date information about UUFDC events? On the website calendar at www.uufdc.org! Items will be added to the calendar by Pat as they are set. Simply click on the CALENDAR tab on the opening home page. The current month will display but you can go forward or backward to other months. Hold your cursor over a calendar entry and you will see details of the event. Our website is always being updated with new information about our Fellowship. Use it regularly and suggest it to others who may have an interest. If you have a new event to post, please send that to Pat or me.

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Forks Over Knives

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December 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

By Lu Schilling

January 17 at 4:30 pm the documentary Forks Over Knives will be screened and followed by a discussion.

In symbols, this logo means food choices tops surgical stopgaps.

Focusing on the research of two food scientists, this documentary reveals that despite broad advances in medical technology, the popularity of modern processed foods has led to epidemic rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer and simultaneously  harms the environment. Caldwell Esselstyn of Cleveland Clinic, Colin Campbell nutrition scientist and former USDA whistle-blower, Neal Barnard, M.D. of Physicians for Responsible Medicine, Gene Baur from Farm Sanctuary, and Mac Danzig, body builder and Ultimate Fighter Champion are featured.

We are dealing with more than just food addiction. Advertising makes us think unnaturally about food products. Chronic degenerative disease can be prevented and reversed by eating whole, unadulterated foods, primarily plants.

This movie covers the basics and is really great at pointing out the tremendous flaws in the USDA food pyramid as well as the American Dietician Association’s guidelines for healthy eating.  I hope all dieticians and physicians will see this documentary.

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Homework for Jan. 8th Service

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December 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

Highly recommended as a prelude to Rev. Joan Shiels’ message on Jan 8th titled Reel Spirituality: Enlightenment at the Movies, is seeing the 1972 Academy Award winning film The Godfather. You will have that opportunity to view this classic starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan at 4 pm, January 7th at the Fellowship. We plan to serve up some Italian pizza to set the mood. The movie is free; shared cost for the pizza.

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How Should We As A Congregation Handle political Issues?

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December 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

By Chuck Lauter

Above is the title of a forum sponsored by the Governing Board and conducted by Adult Education and SRC, to be held at 3 pm on Wednesday, January 25. The coming year will be a period of intense political ferment in our locale, our state and our nation. After inquiries and discussion, the GB determined that it would be wise for the Fellowship to focus on how we should act and/or re-act in this climate.

Political issues almost always have moral and/or ethical dimensions. As such, religious/spiritual communities may wish to act on them. In the recent past UUFDC has by resolution condemned Arizona immigration laws and opposed a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The UUA General Assembly in Phoenix in June 2012 will have as its theme Immigration Justice. UUs have a long history of responding to  political/moral questions.

The Fifth Principle which UUs affirm and covenant is “The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.” This and the other principles are intended as the grounding for the forum. Political positions can be divisive and we as a Fellowship wish to avoid dissension. Yet, as noted in the Fifth Principle, we need to balance conscience with democratic process. The question is, “How do we do this?” The forum will explore how UUFDC can act and how members and friends can interact on political issues in the context of the Fellowship.

This is a critical event. Please put the date and time –January 25 at 3 pm–on your calendar and plan to attend.

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Clowers Featured in Dickinson Poetry Series

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December 27, 2011

December 27, 2011

David Clowers

The next Dickinson Poetry Series will feature UU Member David Clowers in “Out of the Woods and Into a Poem” January 11, 7 pm, at the UU Fellowship.

For nine years, David lived in a small, self-built cabin on thirty acres of Door County woods without the advantages of electricity or running water. He notes that was over three times as long as Henry David Thoreau managed to do it, and Thoreau could walk over to fellow poet Ralph Waldo Emerson’s for dinner! David has since moved into a condo on the shores of Sturgeon Bay, but living in the woods taught him simplicity, and living without electronic distractions gave him a great deal of time to write.

He received his Masters degree in English literature, but after three years teaching English and American literature at Drake University, he switched fields, and got his law degree from the University of Chicago. He has practiced law ever since, and currently does the Legal Aid Clinic for Door County. He also instructs poetry and reading theater classes for the Door County Learning in Retirement program.

David tries to write every day, and since he began writing seriously about 10 years ago, his poems have garnered honorable mentions and a second place in the annual Hal Grutzmacher contests, an honorable mention in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Triad contest, and appeared in the 2009, 2010 and 2012 WFOP calendars. He was profiled in the Peninsula Pulse and one of his poems was featured on the Your Daily Poem website.  Several of his poems also have been posted on the poetry trail in Newport State Park. David’s first book of poetry, Shedding My Three Piece Birthday Suit, was published by Birchwinds Press, Egg Harbor in 2011.

An open mic will follow David’s reading.

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