Pilgrim House

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

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Sunday Adult Programs

(10:15 to 11:30 a.m.)

During the regular year from September to May, we hold a single Sunday program from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday School religious instruction classes are offered for pre-school through senior high during the service. In the summer months we hold services once a month, meeting at the same time. The summer services are designed to be inter-generational, so adults and children can attend together.

September 12 - Water Communion

This is an opportunity for the attendees to become acquainted and reacquainted after our three month layoff.  Each member or friend can bring water, real or ceremonial, that indicates what they have been up to in the last three months and share those activities with the fellowship.  So bring your water or we will have water available, but bring information about you and your life that you would be willing to share with the other members and let’s start the year off with an abundance of good fellowship.

September 19 - The Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls are widely considered one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time. A priceless collection of 2,000-year-old documents that shed light onto a little-known period in religious history, the scrolls are some of the oldest surviving written documents in human history. Containing original texts from the Bible as well as writings that tell us about the laws and society of Jewish culture, the scrolls were discovered in a cave along the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in 1947. Since then, they have prompted rigorous scholarly debate as to who their authors may have been, and they’ve given us a rare glimpse into what life was like around the time of Christ. They are on exhibit at the Minnesota Science Museum for a short time and an expert will be at Pilgrim House to share them and their importance. 

September 26 - Bernice Johnson and the Shan refugees

The Shan are an ethic minority within Burma (Myanmar) which is facing genocide at the hands of the Myanmar Army and many of the young people have escaped to Thailand where Bernice Johnson runs a school for them.  Bernice Johnson has been to Pilgrim House before, speaking to us about the Shan, and the Children’s RE has run programs to assist her.  She returns to give us an update on her progress and to bring additional Shan products.

October 3 - The Forgiveness Trend: Dr. Sharon Whitehill

Is there someone you need to forgive, or someone you hope will reach out in forgiveness to you? Mysterious, complex, sometimes withheld or misused, this deep human impulse is now at the core of a growing international movement that shows us the way to reflect on past deeds and then move beyond them to healing and wholeness.

Dr. Sharon Whitehill is a retired professor of English from Grand Valley State University in Michigan, where for 32 years she taught a variety of literature courses as well as world mythology and writing. In retirement, one of her favorite pastimes is writing and delivering sermons at liberal churches in the Midwest and in Florida.