January 2009
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Ames, IA 50014
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Vol. 16, No. 1
Sunday services, 9 & 11 a.m., except Jan. 25, 10 a.m.
4 Marginalia: Life’s Little Surprises on the Path to Wonder and Awe
The Rev. Roger Butts
Marginalia is a poem by Billy Collins about a bit of marginalia he saw in a library book
once, a message that came out of the blue, that came unexpectedly and touched something
in him that expanded his view of himself and the world. Billy Collins invites us to be
attentive to those things that come to us as moments of clarity, moments of grace, moments
of new awareness that are pure gift. *is service asks: What little epiphanies have visited
you? Read ahead if you’d like: Marginalia, www.billy-collins.com/2005/06/marginalia.html.
11 !is I Believe
Barb Evenson, Emily Kapler & Lexa Scupham
Recent participants in a fall offering of Building Your Own *eology will share readings,
music, and experiences from their own paths on the search for truth and meaning. Come
celebrate the diversity of our congregation members while supporting each individual journey.
18 Barack Obama and the Vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
Mary Sawyer
As the nation observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day and inaugurates a new president, join
us for an exploration of the meaning of Barack Obama’s election in the context of King’s
unfinished agenda. What has impeded the fulfillment of King’s vision over the past 40
years? What can we reasonably hope for from an Obama administration?
25 Time Machine, single service at 10 a.m.
High School Youth
Join the UUFA senior high youth as they share what it was like to be a UU teen in past
decades. Music, readings, and reflections from teens and times past, as well as our own
youth-built time machine, will be woven into this year’s youth service.