Ingathering is when we come back together as a church from our expeditions to exotic places like Maine and Ohio and even Salem. Please remember to bring a small vessel of water with you to the service the morning of September 7. We will be having our traditional, annual Water Ceremony. Bring a water sample from someplace that was meaningful to you over the summer, and take a moment or two to tell us why this water is special to you.
The Flower Communion honors the memory and spirit of Norbert Capek, founder of the Unitarian Church in Prague, which was then in Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis annexed the nation, they arrested Dr. Capek and deemed him, with his liberal religion, too ‘dangerous to live.’ He was murdered in the course of Nazi ‘medical experiments,’ making him the last martyr to die for Unitarian values. UU congregations in the US carry on the flower communion in tribute to him.
Every year, more and more jobs that people used to do are taken over by machines. What does this development portend? Popular culture sees a danger in Artificial Intelligence, in robots overthrowing their human masters and setting up a machine state.
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Marblehead this morning salutes Harvard University and its President, Alan Garber, for having the courage to stand in opposition to illegal, illiberal and unconstitutional demands made on it by the current national administration.
