Everyone is asked to bring a piece of music that moves them in important ways to share with the fellowship.

Women's rights issues and adopting an infant girl
in China. 11 January 2004. Ingrid Ahlberg is the President of the Heidelberg Fellowship. She is an Educator. She has traveled extensively. Her talk will be about the process of adopting an infant girl in China. She will speak about her trip to China to locate and receive her daughter and deal with some unexpected issues before they could leave for a new home. Her experience raises a women's rights issue that addresses several other cultures.

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Insights of the Old Testament Prophet, Amos. 14 October 2003. Despite the unlikely appearance of the theme, this will be a topic that reveals a longstanding Unitarian Universalist tradition.

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Rissho Kosei-kai. The Rev. and Mrs. Gerhmann, the newest members of the UU Frankfurt Fellowship will feature their experiences with their personal contact in Japan with the Rissho Koshi Kai Buddhists, a six million member "sister" to the UUA. Through a small group process which teaches simple truths on the emotional as well as the cognitive level, this group has not only developed a large and influential church body in Japan, but they have also studied and practice ways to make a real difference in approaching world peace.

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Festival of Lights. 2 DEC 01 at 5 PM in the Chapel of Patrick Henry Village, near Heidelberg. Brighten up the gloomy days of winter as we listen to readings and songs about the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah and Advent. The Choir of the English Department of the University of Heidelberg will provide musical accompaniment. Please RSVP to C.Burmedi@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

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Fear. Do you remember your childhood fears? Looking back they may seem so childish, but they can be haunting, just like our present fears. What do our deepest fears look like and what do we do with them. How can they become stimulating rather than paralyzing?

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Winter Solstice Walk to the Night Tree, 22 December 2001. The Kaiserslautern UU Fellowship will celebrate the Winter Solstice on Saturday, 22 December by taking a 40 minute walk into the high forest to a spreading evergreen, which will be decorated with food for the birds, deer, boar, rabbits, mice and foxes in the area. Please RSVP to John Keating/Elizabeth Malone at +49-6301-31353 or keatmalo@bunt.com and bring a holiday bread or dessert, and house shoes. Maps and help arranging reasonably priced rooms in a local Gasthaus available.

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Life as a Work in Progress, 27 January 2002. Essayist Phil Simmons, in the November/December 2001 UU World writes that only by "building a house of peace in the present moment can we be made whole." We'll talk about living every day to the fullest. Read Article

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Mystery, 28 April 2002. "[W]e have magazine articles telling us the six ways to find a mate, the eight ways to bring greater joy into your life, the ten elements of a successful family, the twelve steps toward spiritual enlightenment. We choose to see life as a technical matter.
" And here is where we go wrong. For at its deepest levels life is not a problem, but a mystery. The distinction, which I borrow from the philosopher Gabriel Marcel, is fundamental: problems are to be solved, true mysteries are not." The place of mystery in our lives is the topic for the April adult RE meeting. Read essay.

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A Thumbnail Guide to Ethics, 10 March 2002. How conscious are we of how we make our ethical decisions and process ethical dilemmas? Do we make our decisions based on what we think is right? Does the decision have to serve the most people? Is it more important to try to predict the outcome of a decision? Is it possible at all to find situations that are comfortable in any of these ways.

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Liberal Religion For Our Time, 24 February 2002. "The Universalist principle is to unite the many into one," writes Rev. Dr. Forrest Church. But he says we UU's may have been too zealous in our efforts to strip away the "trappings" of religion. We will talk about purposes, definitions, and ways to talk about a liberal faith, and in the process learn a bit more about our Universalist traditions. Read Article

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Silence, 24 March 2002. "Emptiness, like silence, like love, is not something we choose, not something we reason our way into, but rather something into which we fall, something in which we find ourselves." Another of Philip Simmons' essays will be the pivot point of the Adult RE meeting for March. Read essay.

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Let's Hear it for Silence, 12 May 2002. It is a noisy world in many ways. Many religious traditions teach of the value of silence. In a recent adult religious education session, some aspects of quiet were discussed. This talk will explore some more. Read Let's Hear It For Silence.

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Since 911 . We hear the world changed on 11 September 2001. Some things, like our need for each other stay the same. Read Since 911.

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