11:00 am ~ Teen Bridging and Flower Communion

bridging_imageJoin us on Sunday, May 1st, in the sanctuary, to celebrate our four graduating seniors: Gregory Kertay, Lily Joyner, Isabelle McCurdy, and Lauren Solomon.

All four of these awesome young people have grown up before our very eyes…and deserve a grand send-off. We’ll hold a traditional bridging ceremony, then hear from each teen how a lifetime spent as a UU has shaped their reality.

A liberal sharing of collective wisdom will follow, and all will be invited to take home a wildflower-seed-shape ready for planting. As our teens go off to “seek a great perhaps”, we’ll tend our blooms, and keep these young folks close in our hearts.

And so this:

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Becomes this:

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9:30 Forum  (downstairs) Grammar Nazis and the Evolution of Language

hist_engThe only thing that is certain about language is that it undergoes constant change. But something almost as certain is the fact that people are so resistant to these changes. Why do people find change so threatening, how do they fight  it, and why do they always lose?

Speaker: UUCC Member Dr. Rice. Martin Rice is retired from 25 years of teaching at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, specializing in Russian literature and language. Last fall he spoke to the Forum on Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground.