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Unitarian
Universalist
Fellowship of
North Central
Iowa
606 North
Monroe Ave.
Mason City, IA
50428
641-424-3873
641-424-4607
641-423-2931
641-357-6247
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updated
May 20, 2009
Loren Toomsen
Website
Administrator
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The Group
Dialog, Discussion & Social
1st & 3rd
Tuesdays
2:30 PM
Open to all UU Fellowship Members
Home of
Mary Curtis
Mason City
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Video
Series
Open to
Everyone
Selected Saturdays
in
Clear Lake
Viewed from a perspective of our Natural Universe
You already know the Supernatural version.
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100 Questions
What you've always wanted to know about Unitarian
Universalism but were too polite to ask!
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"A safe place to explore your
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We welcome you into our community.
Our Fellowship meets Sunday mornings
North Iowa
Community Kitchen Center
606 North Monroe,
Mason City, Iowa
10:00 AM Social / Gong 10:30 AM to 11:30
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1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 2:30 PM
"dialog, discussion, social and
coffee." Open to all UU members. |
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You are
welcome
Invite a
friend
FREE: Open to the public
10:00 am
Clear Lake
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Two Sundays Hence
July 5, 2009
NO UU SERVICE TODAY: July 4th
Family Weekend |
Fellowship VIDEO Series
Saturday: June 27, 2009
"NO VIDEO TODAY: This website under
reconstruction" |
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Over the next two weeks our fellowship
website will undergo a major face lift including a new template.
If the crick don't rise and pa finds work the new version of this website
should be functional sometime around July 4th
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Fourth Annual Iowa Secularists Conference
July 18th, 2009
Downtown Sheraton / Iowa City.
This year, our keynote speaker will be D. J. Grothe,
Vice President and Director of Outreach Programs for the
Center for Inquiry. Sessions will also include
presentations by Dr. Hector Avalos from Iowa State
University and Bjorn Watland, President of the Minnesota
Atheists.
Due to the economic situation facing many in Iowa
and the nation, the cost to attend the conference
has been reduced from last year in an effort to
ensure that financial considerations are not
preventing secular Iowans from attending and
associating with their fellow freethinkers. Pricing
is $25 for individuals and $40 for a
couple, which includes attendance for the day
and a catered meal during our Keynote Dinner. The
meal will include a vegetarian option. If you have
specific dietary restrictions and would like to
attend, please let us know.
In addition, groups of Iowans traveling from
elsewhere in the state have the opportunity to apply for
travel grants to help cover the cost of transportation
to the conference. If you have a group that will attend
together and would like to apply for a travel grant,
please let us know by replying to this email. Please
also tell us if you are traveling and willing to carpool
with other members, and we will help coordinate travel
groups.
I'll Be There!
2009 Iowa Secularists Conference Schedule (May be
subject to change)
July 18, 2009
12:30 - 1:00 PM - Registration
1:00 - 1:15 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
1:15 - 2:00 - Session 1 - Secular Communities in
Iowa - A facilitated discussion
2:00 - 2:45 - Session 2 -
Intelligent Design: Why It's Not Science -
Dr. Hector Avalos, Professor of Religious
Studies, Iowa State University
2:45 - 3:00 - Break
3:00 - 3:45 - Session 3 - Secular Parenting -
Michael Ireland, Executive Director, Iowa
Secularists
3:45 - 4:30 - Session 4 - Positive Atheism -
Bjorn Watland, President, Minnesota Atheists
and Brian Sabel, Founder, Iowa Secularists
4:30 - 5:30 - Cocktail Hour
5:30 - 7:30 - Dinner and Keynote Address
featuring D. J. Grothe
Directly after dinner and our keynote address, we
would like to assemble those in attendance for a group
photo.
| About our Keynote Speaker - D. J. Grothe
is a writer and public speaker who talks about
issues at the nexus of science, critical thinking,
secularism, religion and the paranormal. He is Vice
President and Director of Outreach Programs at the
Center for Inquiry, a "think tank that advances
science, reason and secular values in public
affairs." He is associate editor of Free Inquiry
magazine, and lectures throughout North America at
colleges and universties. He hosts the nationally
popular radio show and podcast Point of Inquiry
which features leading thinkers in the sciences,
skepticism and humanism.
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atheist, agnostic, freethinking, humanist,
non-religious and other Iowans, however they define
themselves, at this conference. Please pass this
announcement on to any and all groups and
individuals that may be interested in attending! See
you in Iowa City!
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July 13 - 17, 2009
Clear Lake Iowa
UPPER MIDWEST INSTITUTE FOR
BUDDHIST STUDIES
"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE:
MAPS OF THE MIND"
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