Our Adult Education program facilitates relevant education experiences in the congregation and wider community. Our classes are intended to affirm and promote Unitarian Universalist principles.

Adult Education courses seek to address four categories:

- Unitarian Universalist history and faith development;
- Physical and emotional well-being;
- Personal and spiritual awareness; and,
- Social awareness and justice.

Adult Education Courses for Spring 2008

  Download the Spring 2008 brochure

The Art of Possibility  (book study) with Karen West

      Thursdays, Jan. 24-Feb. 21, 7:00-8:00 PM in the Library

Exploring Evolutionary Spirituality and Sacred Activism with Kathleen Erickson, RCM               

     Wednesdays, January 16-March 5, 7:00-9:00 PM, location to be determined

     $18 (class fee $5, book $13)

     Sign-up deadline:  January 13 (class size: 12)

Using readings from authors exploring the evolution of human spirituality and the need

for sacred activism in our time, this program will challenge us to share our deepest wisdom

with one another.  The book Upstart Spring by Francis Rothluebber and some of Andrew

Harvey ’s work will provide a framework for this interactive experience.

How Are We to Live?  Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest (book study) with Jean Gilbert

     Tuesdays, April 1-29, 7:00 -8:30 PM in the Library

     $25 (class fee $5, book $20)

     Sign-up deadline:  March 23, (class size:  15)

How Are We to Live? explores what is meant by an ethical approach to life and how that can bring about significant and far-reaching changes to our living.  Just a few of the chapter titles:  The Ultimate Choice, Using Up the World, Is Selfishness In Our Genes, How the Japanese Live, The Nature of Ethics, and What’s In It For Me?  Peter Singer is currently the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton Center for Human Values. His other writings include Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, and Rethinking Life and Death.

Great Decisions 2008 with Leonard Gambrell

     Mondays, March 31-April 28, 7:00-9:00 PM in the Library

     $23 (class fee $5, book $18)

    (Class size 15)  

Discussions, debates, and decisions on five current U. S. foreign policy issues will be the focus of this course.   Each week the group will review and debate a different issue based on balanced readings provided by the text.  At the end of each session we are asked by the Foreign Policy Association to vote on questions they have developed. Results of our voting will become part of The National Opinion Ballot Report which goes to the White House, Congress, the departments of State and Defense and the media.

Building Your Own Theology with Reverend Nancy Anderson

     Thursdays, March 6-May 1, 7:00-8:30 PM in the Library

     $22  (class fee $5, book $17)

     Sign-up deadline:  Feb. 17

The purpose of this program is to “provide some tools for building a theology based on the

materials of individual life experiences.”  Creator of the course, Richard Gilbert, writes,

“We must do more than tell our people  they have to think for themselves.  We must provide some handles, a kit of tools . . . to help them build.” We will reflect together on major religious

questions  that can be answered only from our own experience, and from these reflections each

person will create a credo.  Additional material from the new UUA curriculum “Spirit of Life”

will be included.

For more information, please contact AdultRE@uuchurchlc.org or office@uuchurchlc.org.

- Get involved in Adult Education
- Sign up for fall and spring courses
- Suggest topics and/or presenters for future courses and programs
- Join the Adult Education Committee; we need members! Please contact <AdultRE@uuchurchlc.org> for more information.