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Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Brainerd/Pine River, MN
October 13, 2013

As things are progressing on the NUUF/HUG presentations on gas and oil development, the dates have been fixed. First, November 8, the film Dirty Oil. Secondly, November 22, Marty Kobenais' slide presentation on tar sands. Third, on December 6, Gasland. These are all on Friday nights, starting at 5; please bring a dish if you can (my experience at these things is that there is always too much food, so don't worry if you cannot oblige, come anyway!) We are hoping to expand information on these topics. The matter of Enbridge pipeline expansion into Cass County is getting close to decision time; the Public Utilities Commission will decide on the application by Enbridge for approval shortly. The more citizens know, the better able we will all be to talk about and bring actions appropriate to the concerns.

Our meeting on October 12 was a showing of a DVD on the history of American Unitarianism, borrowed from Fargo-Morehead UUs. Part III of a six-part series, it traced the development of Unitarians from late 18th C into mid-19th. The founders of the movement of the time included Joseph Priestley, William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Margaret Fuller and RW Emerson. The evolution was tracked in New England from the Congregationalists through the Socian and Arian ideas that branched to form two ideas about Unitarianism, which finally resulted in the Socian view in major adoption to this day, which propounds a human prophet in Jesus, and repudiation of the Trinity.  We will see if more of these DVDs are wanted for programs; this one was surely well done in lecture form, very instructive.

Submitted by Mary DeYoung, News Director