Sunday, July 17 - A Magical Mystery Tour!

Sunday, July 17 at 11:00 a.m. — TÖFRANDI RÁÐGÁTA FERЗMAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR — Rev. Wayne Arnason and Rev. Kathleen Rolenz have just returned from a week on a tour bus, driving around Iceland with fifty-nine relatives! Their magical mystery tour resulted in some life lessons about lineage, heritage, family, and patience -- all of which they will share this Sunday morning.

Gimli Unitarian Church is located on Second Avenue, just north of Centre Street. Dress is casual — after all, it's cottage season! — and light refreshments are served following the service.

Rev. Millie Rochester will preach on Sunday, July 31, during the Icelandic Festival long weekend. The summer season will continue with services on August 7, August 21 and September 4.

Summer Services at Gimli Commence July 3rd

Summer services will resume at the Gimli Unitarian Church on Sunday, July 3 at 11:00 a.m., and continue on the "odd Sundays" of the month until Labour Day.

Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach at the opening service: Are You Sure About That? -- In his book On Being Certain, neurologist and novelist Robert A. Burton explores the murky world of how and why we believe we are right—even when we’re wrong! Does our sense of certainty flow from our abilities to reason and understand? Or are we simply hardwired to believe?

On July 17, Rev. Wayne Arnason and Rev. Kathleen Rolenz will take people on a Töfrandi ráðgáta ferð—Magical Mystery Tour – They will have just returned from a week on a tour bus, driving around Iceland with fifty-nine relatives! Their magical mystery tour is sure to result some life lessons about lineage, heritage, family, and patience?

Rev. Millie Rochester will preach of Sunday, July 31, during the Icelandic Festival long weekend. The summer season will continue with services on August 7, August 21 and September 4.

Check the Intelake Unitarians' website for service details at http://www.interlakeunitarians.blogspot.com/.

The historic Gimli Unitarian Church is located on Second Avenue, just north of Centre Street.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sunday, May 15, at 11:00 a.m. – OUR KINDRED FELLOWSHIPS – Fifty years ago on this day, the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America consolidated to establish the Unitarian Universalist Association. We will examine the events that brought together these two distinctive liberal religious traditions and reflect of upon the fruits of their merger. Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Sunday, April 17, at 11:00 a.m. – DOES THE HISTORICAL JESUS REALLY MATTER? – On the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Jesus Seminar last fall, Peter Laarman suggested it was a “good time to ask what difference it makes when the Jesus of history turns out to be considerably more interesting than the myth-encrusted Christ created by the church over the centuries. Or does it make any difference at all?” As long as truth matters, and as long as Jesus is claimed as an authority in both politics and religion, then the search to uncover the Jesus of history does indeed matter. Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Sunday, March 20, at 11:00 a.m. - THE ART OF LOVING - Don Ayre recalls the extremes of idealism and realism of the 60s and 70s and the rhetoric of the "Make Love, Not War" era. Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving was one of the books that sparked the movement but it was lost in the violence of the antiwar protests and demonstrations against the "system." Today there is a renewed call for the development of a more caring global community which will reactivate the need for the art of loving. Unitarian Universalism could play a key role. Our pulpit guest this morning will be Don Ayre of Winnipeg.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Sunday, February 20, at 11:00 a.m. - IT SOUNDS LIKE SCRIPTURE TO ME: THE KING JAMES BIBLE AFTER FOUR CENTURIES - The most familiar version of the Bible in English—the King James, or Authorized Version—was published in 1611 after a rigorous process of translation and editing under the guidance of a group of scholars who came to be called "God's secretaries." Although its language is increasingly difficult to understand, it is still the translation that "sounds like scripture" to our ears and it remains favoured as the "authentic" Bible in most people's estimation. We will celebrate the poetry of the King James Version while learning about its origins and its limitations. Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. – TOLERATING THE INTOLERABLE – In proper doses, rat poison helps to prevent heart attacks but, taken in excess, it can kill more than a rat. We often here it said that "too much of a good thing" is harmful to us. Have we taken the doctrine of tolerance too far? Should we be less tolerant of some things than we have been? Are there limits to tolerance? Rev. Stefan Jonasson will preach.