August 4 - Dr. Terry Goode Truth Be Told... The Unitarian Universalist Fourth Principle says that UUs believe in “a free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” The Unison Affirmation says, “we gather together to celebrate within a caring community those truths which give meaning and direction to our lives.” But, what does it mean to say that something is true? And, how would we know if we had found a meaningful truth? Today’s message will look at truth from a philosophical perspective, assessing the four most important theories of truth that have been proposed in the Western tradition. The theories are the Correspondence, Coherence, Pragmatic, and Authoritarian theories of truth. Each theory presents an important idea about the concept of truth, but each is problematic. Thus, our search for truth continues.

Dr. Terry Goode is a long-time friend of the Fellowship. He has served as a member of the Finance Committee, the Program Committee, and the Communications Committee. Terry is a former philosophy teacher and a retired technology company owner. He teaches philosophy for the Clearing in the winter and for Bjorklunden in the summer. He and his wife Pam reside in Baileys Harbor. They are frequent travelers, and passionate supporters of Good Samaritan-Scandia Village.

Music: Joan Mead, pianist; Hope Dunbar, vocalist Service Leader: Susan Leeder

August 11 - Rev. Karon Sandberg Wrestling with Love To love is an essential part of what makes us human. We first learn about love from our family of origin. Some of us are lucky to be enveloped in unconditional love from the moment we arrive. Others of us may only receive carefully dished out portions of love that carry expectations and limitations. Others may find love in families that we select. I keep returning to First Corinthians 13 to marvel at its definitions of love. Join us as we dig down deep within ourselves to better understand this intangible thing that makes our life worth living.

Rev. Karon Sandberg is a hospice chaplain who finds great meaning in her work and learns from her patients how to live life more fully. She was ordained by the Fox Valley UU Fellowship and serves them as a community minister. She and her partner, Joel, have been married for over 30 years. They are enjoying their empty nest and the opportunity to

explore new places and activities as they enter this new phase of life.

Music: Gerri Friedberg, pianist; vocalists: Anne Bahmer, Alison Glapa, and Liz Stroessner Service Leader: Marilyn Hansotia

August 18 - Rev. Karon Sandberg The Interdependent Web Usually as we talk about our responsibilities to the earth and our connection to the interdependent web of life, it seems we come at from a place of taking charge and being good stewards. We should do our best to treat the earth with respect and care but logic tells us we are just a small

part of this enormous universe. Life experiences have caused me to wonder, what if the earth is trying just as hard to take care of us?

Music: Kurt Johnson, violin; Donna Russell, pianist UUFDC Choir, Cynthia Stiehl, Director Service Leader: Marilyn Hansotia

August 25 - Denise Cawley Bucking the Patriarchy Rev. Dr. Florence Buck is a little known minister in our Unitarian history whose ideas were groundbreaking at the time and many of her goals are ones we still are struggling to implement over the 100 years since she preached them. Find out how to spread the message of this queer, religious educator, pioneering minister who introduced our faith to radical welcome, anti-racism and equity before they were buzz words of Unitarianism.

Denise Cawley is Unitarian Universalist seminarian at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. She provides spiritual and emotional care chaplaincy at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin. Denise has been a pivotal player in diversity, inclusion, marriage equality and voting rights. Denise serves as the intern minister at Bradford Unitarian Universalist Community Church in Kenosha, WI. As a multi-ethnic woman identified woman at the intersection of many identities, she is keenly aware her own marginalization and privilege. She consciously lifts up voices from the margins. Denise is a visual artist of national regard. Denise has written about and continues to research Florence Buck, one of our queer, anti-oppression Unitarian heroes few know enough about. She also researches and writes on the intersection of spirituality and abortion. She is a mom and lives in Milwaukee, WI.

Music: Gerri Friedberg, pianist Service Leader: Bob Lindahl

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF DOOR

COUNTY

August 2019

Volume 23, Issue 8

August Sunday Services

Field of Daises by Karon Winzenz

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Our Mission:

Guided by the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism, our Door County Fellowship:

Celebrates diverse beliefs

Inspires spiritual growth, intellectual inquiry, and creative expression

Cares actively for the wellbeing of its Fellowship family and the larger community

Practices conscientious stewardship of the earth upon which all life depends

Pursues equality and justice for all people

President’s Column by Tom Toerpe, President

This month, I’d like to highlight the work of our Memorial Garden Committee, and invite you to join us after the August 18th Sunday Service for a celebration of the lovely space they have created for us right outside our doors. As you will read in the article below, the Memorial Garden is the culmination of more than ten years of vision, planning and work. It offers us a way to honor the lives of those who have contributed to the growth and devel-opment of this Fellowship, and an ongoing legacy that will benefit our faith community for decades to come.

On August 18, in lieu of our normal coffee hour and talkback, the Memorial Garden Com-mittee has planned a brief program of music, refreshments, and words from Rev. Cynthia Barnes Johnson as well as from our speaker that day, Rev. Karon Sandberg. The program will take place outdoors, so dress for whatever nature has in store for us that day. If raining we will hold the program indoors. Everyone is welcome to come!

Honoring our Memorial Garden by Trish Black, Memorial Garden Committee Member

On Sunday, August 18th the Memorial Garden Committee will host coffee hour at the garden. We hope everyone will join us in this beautiful space and see what an amazing gift we have in our own backyard. We hope you will join us after the service that day for food, fellowship and the gift of peace only offered in the presence of the sacred.

Our intention is to increase awareness of this space. It sits behind our building and offers a sa-cred and beautiful space to be contemplative and peaceful. It is also a place to connect with those who have passed before us and who have made this place—UUFDC—their spiritual home.

The UUFDC Memorial Garden was dedicated October 24, 2010. Without the vision and driving force of Cynthia Johnson, it would not exist. Prior to even purchasing our current building, Cyn-thia was advocating for a memorial garden and championing its importance. She knew it was valuable to have a place to honor and connect with those who had passed before and to offer our Members and Friends a “final resting place” in a place they so deeply loved.

Over 10 years ago, Cynthia approached the governing board requesting the exploration of a me-morial garden space. In pure UU form, a task force was created and they began meeting in De-cember of 2008 to actualize this vision—a vision that included the following qualities:

- A place of beauty

- Harmonious with local Door County nature

- An informal organic feel

- Reflecting UU Principles

- Space for the interment of ashes

- Accessible to all abilities

- Peaceful and inviting of a meditative and reflective spirit

To achieve this dream there were numerous meetings, field trips to other gardens, interviews with those experienced in such endeavors, research as to design and material, securing the right individuals to physically create the space, and of course finding the necessary funds to make it all a reality. The hard work and dedication of this committee has left an incredible legacy for all of us here at the Fellowship.

Our faith community is so blessed to have this reflective space on our grounds. It is a visually beautiful place that calls us to be quiet, reflective and peaceful. It is open to Members and Friends as a final place for cremains. It offers a place to BE and connect with those who have gone before.

Governing Board Officers: President Tom Toerpe tmtoerpe@gmail.com

Vice President Bob Dowling rgdgeneral@yahoo.com

Treasurer Cynthia Stiehl cmstiehl@aol.com

Secretary Anna Knapp anna@uufdc.org

At-Large Governing Board Directors: Paula Christensen pjchriste123@gmail.com

Susan Leeder nobarnfarm@gmail.com

David Studebaker das189@tigereye.com

An Open Door to

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Social Justice Committee by Paula Christensen, Chair I was moved by Rev. Dottie Mathews’ Sunday Services in July. If you weren’t able to attend, you might want to listen to them on our UUFDC website podcasts (https://uufdc.org/sunday-services-podcasts/). Both talks were very informative, challenging and inspi-rational regarding how we can and must continue to be present and open hearted in the face of the world’s suffering. Dottie used one of my favorite quotes from The Talmud:

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

We cannot surrender into despair. Our faith demands involvement and action to move us all forward toward justice. As UUs, we lean into the hard questions such as, “What is your next right action?” Think about it. We all have a role to play in creating our beloved community … right here, right now.

What is your next right action?

Asylum Seekers Supported by UU Church of Columbia, MO – Third Sunday Collection 8/18/19 by Paula Christensen, Social Justice Committee, Chair "...you only leave home when home won't let you stay..." If you were able to be at service on Sunday, July 14th, you heard Rev. Dottie Mathews' reading excerpts of a poem by Warsan Shire that contains those chilling words above. It was a powerful entry into our discussions of her national work with asylum seekers who are truly fleeing for their lives and are pleading for the compassionate wel-come of this country, asking only for peace and safety as they try to rebuild viable lives.

Dottie’s home congregation, the UU Church of Columbia, MO (UUCC) (https://uucomo.org) is a sanctuary support congregation that pro-vides volunteers, material and financial support to an asylum-seeking family. Edler was a farmer in Honduras whose family was persecut-ed because they spoke out against the corrupt government and lack of societal safety. Violence was brought on them because of that activism so he fled with his older daughter, and his wife and baby daughter followed on the same treacherous journey a few weeks later. They are now all reunited in their own apartment in Missouri,

but there are many ways the family needs continued support, espe-cially financially, as they pursue the legal journey of their asylum plea. This process began for Edler and his family in June 2019, and can take a year or more to complete.

The Social Justice Committee encourages you to give generously to support UUCC in their efforts to help Edler and his family. This is a way that we can tangibly aid an asylum-seeking family, through a person (Rev. Dottie Mathews) and a sanctuary support congregation (UUCC) we know. Thank you in advance for your thoughtful contri-butions.

Racial Justice Action Team Update by Rev. Mark Richards, Team Leader In her book, Living in the Tension, Shelly Tochluk writes about the tensions that are incumbent in any spiritual quest for racial justice. The attraction of this phrase lies in its use of broad terms. What is a “spiritual quest” and what does “racial justice” look like? And what do the two have to do with each other?

One way to see spirituality is to deconstruct it into three elements: connection, gratitude, and awe. Of course, there are no really clear components of spirituality, the idea merges and morphs through many iterations, often in a single conversation. By trying to tease out some points of reference, we begin to understand that how things relate to each other lies deeper than just surface interactions. When we feel a connection with something else, and then express gratitude for that connection, we begin to witness that we are part of something greater than ourselves. The search for that witness is a quest that humans have been making since the dawn of self-awareness.

Cornell West writes that “justice is what love looks like in public.” The spiritual quest that we engage in personally has little value if we cannot bring it to life in the world around us. To place all of our hope for love happening in a world after death is to deny the value and the hope of this world we live in. It is a self-centered exercise which weakens our connection to others on the quest.

It is our hope to use this space to further reflect on the realization of a spiritual quest for racial justice. We can begin by recognizing that there is tension inherent in such a quest, and being comfortable with living in the tension.

Our Racial Justice Action Team (RJAT) meets Wednesday, August 14 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.

START READING NOW — JOIN IN UUA’s NATIONAL COMMON READ!

What: Book discussion of JUSTICE ON EARTH edited by Manish Mishra-Marzetti and

Jennifer Nordstrom … the UUA Common Read for 2018-2019

When: Wednesday, October 2nd from 4-5:30pm Where: UUFDC

Who: All those interested in the intersections of race, class, and the environment.

How: Books on loan at Sara’s desk. Order or download through Amazon, Google, or

Skinner Books.

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Opportunities to Learn and GrowOpportunities to Learn and Grow Movies That Matter Movies that Matter will not be held in August. The series will return in September. A new date and programing schedule has been identi-fied. Movies will be screened on the third Thursday of the month starting at 4 pm, every other month. We will be back with another movie in September!

Youth Poets, Ethan Hendricks Farnham & Mara Packard, Take the Dickinson Poetry Series Stage By Chuck Lauter Ethan Hendricks Farnham & Mara Packard, youth poets of Northern Door, will be the featured poets at the Dickinson Poetry Series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Ephraim on Wednesday, August 14th at 7:00pm.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ethan Hendricks Farnham considers himself a poet, in the title’s tru-est scents. Through nonsense, and nose sense, he hopes to please listeners, readers, and sniffers alike; even though his writings have yielded no cents. He hopes to please the presence of your pallet with his poetry collection, titled: Aromatherapy.

Lauren Bremer, English teacher at Gibraltar High School, describes his writing, “Ethan Hendricks Farnham's poetry is musical and sibi-lant. Its rhythm is a beating drum, cascading and insightful. Farn-ham's sharp criticism and incising mind cut past decorum, right to the heart of wisdom.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mara Packard was born on a small island off the coast of Portland, Maine. She has always had her nose stuck in a book, and some of her fondest memories were made strolling back home along a sandy path on those glorious “library days” with a copy of Where the Side-walk Ends or some such newly discovered treasure. Her parents work took her from there to Labrador, Canada, later to an Island in Puget Sound, Washington, and finally to Door County. Her childhood traveling, and love for reading have shaped her poetry, giving it a sound that is uniquely her own.

Lauren Bremer describes her writing, “Marguerite Packard's sense of language is simultaneously intuitive and born from the depth and breadth of her reading. Her dreamlike casting of words spins poetry which soars and spirals off the page. Packard's deep contemplation of the world around her is tucked into the wider frame of how the mind perceives and catches all.”

White Fragility Talk by Robin DiAngelo Join us to watch a YouTube lecture by sociologist Robin DiAngelo discussing her best-selling book, White Fragility. We will be showing the video on Thursday, August 29th at 6 pm. Afterwards, we’ll dis-cuss this timely concept that the author says prevents white people from talking about racism. DiAngelo believes that “white progres-sives cause the most damage to people of color.” We fail to see our own complicity, as we have been socialized by a white supremacist society. Very few of us are exempt from a lifetime of racist condi-tioning.

Do these words challenge your beliefs about yourself? Do these words make sense to you? Please come hear this timely talk and engage in a discussion about what we can do as white people to ad-dress our own fragility and counter white supremacy in our lives. This event is sponsored by the Racial Justice Action Team.

Printmaker Chris Style: Stories and Inspirations UU Gallery, August 1-28 Article by Estella Lauter

Chris Style will be exhib-iting a selection of her prints from her ‘Stories From the Heart’ woodcut series and her large-scale prints created for various ‘Steamroller Print’ events. Shown alongside her works will also be some works that inspired her. These include Indian miniature paintings, a Chitraker hand-painted scroll from the village of Naya, India, and photo-graphs of Nek Chand Rock Garden in Chandigraph, India. To see more about her work visit www.christinestyle.com.

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August’s Caring Go2People

Cindy Nelson - cindyandbruce@gmail.com (920) 585-6556

Trish Black - trish.black55@gmail.com (920) 421-9845

...University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Style retired this year and is now Professor Emeritus of Art & Design. Style lives and maintains a printmaking studio in Green Bay, WI. Style has taken students to Italy (15 times), Peru & Bolivia (one time), and India (one time). Style has traveled to India per-sonally six times since 2001. Her travels were often with her late husband, Anton (Tony) Rajer and were primarily to Chandigarh, in northern India, as a volunteer for the Nek Chand Foundation and their mission to preserve and assist the needs of the Nek Chand Rock Garden – www.nekchand.com. In 2014, Style’s also worked at the Kolkata College of Arts & Crafts for one week and stayed in the village of Naya for the Naya Festival. To learn more about the India hand-painted singing scrolls see the Folk Art Messenger article Style wrote - https://folkart.org/mag/chitrakars-naya

The printmaking process that Chris Style will highlight in this exhibit will be hand-carved wood-cuts. Images designed for carving woodcuts must be reduced to black and white and therefore often have a graphic quality. Style primarily uses MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard) as the wood she carves into as it does not have a grain, which can make carving more difficult. An even layer of ink is rolled onto the completed block and paper is placed on top. The print can then be either hand-rubbed, run through a printing press, or pressed using a 'steam roller.' Style has been in-volved in numerous steam roller printmaking events at the Hardy Gallery in Ephriam, WI, and 'Really Big Prints 2014, 2016, and 2018 at the UW-Manitowoc campus.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Plant a Fir Tree - Plant a Healthier Future for All! By Meg Ziegelmann, Environmental Justice Action Team Leader Coming up! Watch for your chance to plant a fir tree in your yard as a gift from the Environmen-tal Justice Action Team and Door County Climate Change Coalition. By now most of you know that trees are hardy inhalers of CO2 and exhale oxygen. They contribute significantly to our health as well as keeping the earth’s temperatures down. They provide shade for our houses and keep the roads cool. They hold in moisture so it doesn’t evaporate into the air. These are just a few ways trees are important in mitigating climate change. The gifting of trees will happen mid to late September and is a Team inter-faith outreach effort as we will distribute trees to nine local churches. You will be able to pick from white pine, red pine, balsam fir, and white spruce.

Health & Wellness Community Events Northern Door YMCA has a new program starting Sept. 4th, Stepping ON, an evidenced-based fall prevention program. The YMCA is offering this free to the community. SIGN UP TODAY by calling the YMCA at 920-743-4949 or 920-868-3550 Program dates: Sept. 4 - Oct. 16, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

The August Community Heath Information Program’s message will be, “Advance Direc-tives: Who Will Speak for You If You Can't?” Katie Graf, Social Worker of Door County Medical Center, will speak on this topic on Sunday, August 25, 4:00 - 5:00 pm, at First Baptist Church of Sister Bay (2662 S. Bay Shore Drive, Sister Bay). The discussion will include an overview of Health Care Power of Attorney and the difference between the HC-POA, the Living Will, and the Financial Power of Attorney.

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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County 10341 Water Street (Hwy 42) Ephraim

Mailing address: PO Box 587, Ephraim, WI 54211

Phone: (920) 854-7559 Email: contact@uufdc.org Web page: www.uufdc.org Sunday Services: 10:00 am

Submit information to: Sara McKillop contact@uufdc.org

August Calendar of Events For the most up-to-date calendar, please go to:

https://uufdc.org/events-calendar/

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8/01 Karin Gatenby; 8/4 Mary Dunworth; 8/5 Estella

Lauter, Sara McKillop, Cyndy Stiehl; 8/12 Susanne

Beaumont; 8/18 Christina Richards; 8/22 Myrna Cohn;

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