The Newsletter of the Sunday Worship Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville, Maryland: Quest A Welcoming Congregation Summer Sunday Services 10:00 a.m. only Volume XLVIII, Number 1 1 September 2004 Editor: Alberta Maschal

5 September Search Committee Plans Potluck Supper Socrates Café and Town Meeting in September Kyle Hedges by Karen Malley Introduction to Socrates Café - a style of philosophical discussion in Everyone is invited to an all-church potluck supper on Saturday evening, 18 small groups - including short September. It’s our first potluck of the fall church season! Children are invited to orientation and hands-on practice. supper and a fun after-dinner activity. The adults will play a different way: we will brainstorm about what kind of minister we want. Think back to ministers who have inspired or mentored you in the past: What was it about that person that was special to you? What will make you say of our new minister, I’m glad the minister is among us! Write your thoughts down and bring them to the after-dinner discussion. The Search Committee needs your input to be able to 12 September answer these questions and find the minister who is right for our church. Resume regular schedule – Allison Cox and the Party Committee are organizing the potluck. Bring whatever Services 9:00 and 10:45 a.m. you can to share and sit down to dinner with all your friends in the UUCR Ingathering Water Ceremony community. Rev. Sue Turner Remember to bring your ‘vacation’ On 19 September the Search Committee will hold town meetings after each water for the Water Communion. service. The Fall 2004 UUCR Survey will be presented and the Committee will be available to answer questions. Members and friends will have the opportunity to complete the brief survey on the spot, or take it home to return later on. Please do attend one of the town meetings and fill out a survey right away.

The Search Committee has begun visiting individuals, small groups, and committees. These discussions are very rich with ideas that will help in the search. Please speak to any member of the Search Committee: Terrie Barr, Herb Winkler, Pat Wilson, Mark Burton, Ralph Golden, Chuck Fenimore, or Karen Malley. They are eager to hear from each and every person.

Mini Do It Day 5 September

Noticed all the weeds on the UUCR grounds? Let’s get together after the service on 5 September to make our church look its best Summer Religious Education before the church year begins. Bring your garden tools and your Classes energy. Pizza will be provided. Please bring a side dish or drinks 20 June - 5 September to share. Questions, call or e-mail Beth Irikura. Preschool - Sixth Grade 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. “Keepers of the Earth” Native American stories and environ- mental/science activities for the realization of wonder and delight and appreciation of and responsible Quest deadline: Thursday 16 September 2004 at 8:00 p.m., action toward the earth. for mailing 22 September. Children go directly to classrooms in (E-mail to John Racine, [email protected]) Building 3. 1 September 2004 Quest — 1 Quest Lifespan Religious Education

Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville 100 Welsh Park Drive REflections Rockville, MD 20850 301-762-7666 Fax: 301-762-7667 [email protected] This week Anne Hope Scott showed me the schedule for Marching on Selma: www.uucr.org Stories of Courage which she is coordinating. I am so interested in this program. Parents, I hope you will bring your older children to “Marching on STAFF Selma” on 15 September. I remember when my daughter was young we went to Interim Minister: Rev. Sue M. Turner the Torpedo Factory and I showed her Laura Huff’s prints and told her Laura is Director of Religious Education: Deborah McGrady Kahn a member of our church. She said, “I’m so proud she’s in our church.” I think Director of Music: Dr. Myra Tate your children and all of us adults will be proud to be in church with the mem- Accompanist: Mary Gottlieb bers you will hear from at our first Wonderful Wednesday program of the year. Youth Coordinator: Leah Davis Church Administrator: Amy Anderson I also met with Ellen Menis and Gail Owens this week; Ellen is coordinating the Administrative Assistants: series of programs that our church, through the Adult Education and Social Keashia Bennett, Ginny Scher Childcare Coordinator: Leah Davis Justice Committees, is cosponsoring with the National Alliance for the Mentally Nursery Care Provider: Jane Helton Ill (NAMI) in Celebration of Mental Illness Awareness Week in October. This is Sexton: Anthony Reeves an important series of programs with some well-known people in their field. Please read your adult education brochure and look for the special brochure Board of Trustees coming out in September. Phil Lowe ’05, President; Sharrill Dittman ‘06, Vice President; Barbara Kawamura Stephanie Kreps has put in her usual good work on the new adult education ’06, Secretary; Dave Marks ‘05, Treasurer; brochure, even in the midst of working around everyone’s summer schedules! Bill Childers ‘05; Judy Eisenhauer ‘05; Terrie McNulty ’06; Beth Irikura ’05, Please read it carefully, especially the important registration information on the Immediate Past President first page. Note that this year John Racine will staff an adult education table in the church lobby. Officers Secretary: Barbara Kawamura ’06 As for me, one of the pleasures of my summer has been re-reading Walden in Treasurer: Dave Marks, ‘05 preparation for the Wonderful Wednesday program, “An Experiment To Try” on Assistant Treasurers: 20 October. Like the writers of the Washington Post and Smithsonian articles Eric Burch ’07 Ethel Gilbert ’06 this summer, I’ve been struck by how timely (and timeless) Walden still is, and, like them, I’ve felt its personal impact. I’ll give the UUCR bookstore information Quest Staff for ordering Walden or you can pull out your old copy, start reading, and put 20 Editor in Chief/Coordinator: October on your calendar. Lisa Petrovich Smith, [email protected] I hope many of you join me on the first Monday evening of each month, Editors: Phyllis Leonard, François Martzloff, beginning in October, to support and encourage each other’s spiritual growth Alberta Maschal, as we consider the six sources from which our Unitarian Universalist tradition Marianne Miller, John Racine draws. AND, I particularly hope many of you will make it a priority to attend the Desktop Publishers: Beth & Lisi Irikura, Lisa P. Smith first Wednesday evening of each month’s Meditation Group led by Marie Reed. Proofreaders: I believe you will find it making a difference in your own life and in our church Ginny Scher, life. Everybody is welcome, from first-timers to those who regularly meditate. Amy Anderson There’s no right or wrong way to meditate, come and find your individual practice. Quest, the regular newsletter of the Unitarian Universalist Church of We are still actively recruiting for our religious education program for children Rockville, is published biweekly at the church office at 100 Welsh Park and teens. Please consider helping; even if you’re not sure, we would love to Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, and have you attend TEACHER TRAINING and team meetings on Saturday 11 distributed without charge to September, 9:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Please call me with questions, offers of help, and members, guests, and friends. Postage is paid at Rockville, MD. RSVPs for teacher training. All rights reserved. POSTMASTER: Send address Blessings, changes to Circulation Manager, Quest, 100 Welsh Park Drive, Deborah Rockville, MD 20850. h 2 — Quest 1 September 2004 Lifespan Religious Education March on Selma – Fred Beckner, Jim Wyckoff, and Audrey Koch were interviewed for Stories of Courage Voices of Civil Rights, a project of the by Anne Hope Scott Library of Congress, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and AARP March on Selma – Stories of Cour- (American Association of Retired age will be the first fall Wonderful People). Wednesday program on 15 September from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. It is fitting, Our evening will conclude with a during the 50th Anniversary Year of reception honoring the Selma march- Brown vs. Board of Education, that ers. This is an important evening of we look back at the history of UUCR’s living history for both our country and participation in the civil rights our church. Please plan to be there movement. Take this opportunity to and bring your family; register for the honor our UUCR members who took program on 12 September between part in this important historical event services with John Racine at the during the height of the civil rights Adult Education table in the lobby. struggle.

Fred Beckner will show his slides of the protestors from across the The Cruel Disease: What Can We Do? country who arrived in Selma to by Ellen Menis attend Jim Reeb’s memorial service and to participate in the voter rights A series of five programs, which address the issues of mental illness, will be protest. The UUCR delegation was presented in October. This series of five programs is co-sponsored the composed of Jim Wyckoff, George National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and by UUCR’s Adult Leonard, Dorothy Millon-Ladd, Fred Education Committee, Social Justice Committee, Housing & Homelessness Beckner, the Reverend David Cole, Task Force, and the Caring Committee. A brochure is being prepared and Gerry Gailey, Barbara Makris, and will be included in the next issue of Quest. If you have questions about Martha Warner. Jim Reeb served as these programs, please contact Deborah Kahn, Stephanie Kreps or Ellen an assistant minister at All Souls Menis. Unitarian Church in Washington, D.C. He was murdered in Selma by four 1. Saturday 2 October from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at Saint Mark Presby- white segregations on 9 March 1965. terian Church on Old Georgetown Road, Agnes Hatfield will speak on Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the Providing For The Future Of Adult Mentally Ill Children eulogy at Reeb’s memorial service in 2. Friday 8 October from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at UUCR, Dr. Xavier Brown’s Chapel in Selma on 15 March Amador will speak: I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help 1965. 3. Sunday 10 October from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at UUCR, Corinne In addition to Fred Beckner’s slide Stevens, Chief, Special Needs Housing for Montgomery County, will presentation, Jim Wyckoff, Dorothy speak on Housing For People Who Are Mentally Ill Or Have Other Millon-Ladd, and George Leonard will Disabilities present their recollections of Selma. 4. Wednesday 13 October from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at UUCR In our Audrey Koch and Rita Fleisher will Own Voice is the testimony of people who have suffered mental illness speak about their community activism and are recovering will be presented as well. A mini poster exhibit of the Brown vs. Board of Education of the 5. Wednesday 27 October from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at UUCR, Brenda Smithsonian Exhibit now at the Bickel and Alison Malmon will talk about Mental Illness In Children. National Museum of American Adolescents, And Young Adults, Identification And Resources; Craig History will be on display; Alonzo Knoll and Heidi Coons of Threshhold Services will present a model of Smith, curator of the display, will take treatment and counseling. us through the timeline of the Civil Rights Movement and will raise Look for the upcoming brochure for more detail about the programs and current and future civil rights issues. information about how to register. There will be a small fee to cover lunches and other expenses. 1 September 2004 Quest — 3 follow the one-hour film. The program Lifespan religious education will conclude at 9:00 p.m. This is a NON-PARTISAN event. A Quiet Time: Wonderful Wednesday, Meditation at UUCR 22 September So that we know how many people to by Mary Lanigan expect, you are asked to register for by Marie Reed this event with the Adult Education The UUCR Faithful Democracy project Committee in the lobby or call the So many of us are so very, very busy. will show the documentary film church office at 301-762-7666. We rarely have quiet times in our Unprecedented: The 2000 Presiden- lives, much less time for meditation. tial Election at Wonderful Wednes- The Faithful Democracy project is a So many say, I want to meditate but I day on Wednesday 22 September at non-partisan effort to increase the just don’t have the time, I can’t get 7:00 p.m. (note earlier starting time). number of people casting informed myself to sit. If this describes you, you Narrated by Danny Glover, this award votes that are counted in the 2004 are warmly invited to consider winning film examines flaws in the election. Activities include voter participating in the meditation voting process in Florida in 2000. This registration, voter education, getting sessions held at UUCR. The time is an inside look at the election people out to vote, monitoring and/or commitment is small—one hour one process and is certain to spark working at the polls, and advocating Wednesday evening a month—but discussion. A discussion period with for voter’s rights. For further informa- the benefits can be immense. suggested follow-up activities will tion contact Mary Lanigan, Terrie Barr or Susan Nerlinger. The programs start with a chalice lighting and a reading, followed by sacred time for participants to share Social Justice readings that touch their hearts. (You can even read something you’ve UUCR Faithful Democracy Project written!) After some stretching, there is a period of meditation. This is a by Mary Lanigan cherished opportunity to be truly Top Ten Reasons to Register and Vote quiet, to go deeper inside and to (Thanks to Laurel Lambert, Third Unitarian Church of Chicago) nourish the soul. Afterwards there’s time for community for those who 10. The President votes. Now you can too. wish to talk. 9. Or majority rules only when majority votes. Generally, meditation sessions are 8. You can’t vote unless you register. held on the first Wednesday of the 7. If you don’t vote, I won’t listen when you complain. month from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 6. You may not change things by voting, but you won’t change things if during the school year. Because the you don’t. church year doesn’t start until 5 September, the first session of the new 5. Many people died to get us the vote. Let’s use it. church year will be on the second 4. Voters decide who gets the money, who goes to school, and who goes Wednesday 8 September. Other to jail. sessions this year will be on 6 3. Voters decide who goes to war and when they come home. October, 3 November, and 1 December. The sessions start at 7:30 p.m. and are 2. If your vote didn’t matter, rich folks wouldn’t spend so much money held in the Worship Hall. trying to change it. 1. It’s free. Please contact Marie Reed if you have any questions about the Important Dates in Maryland: meditation sessions. Bring a reading if you’d like, and pillows, blankets, etc. 12 October: last day to register to vote in 2 November general election. Appli- to make your sitting practice comfort- cation must be received by the Board of Elections by 12 October. able. Beginners are most welcome! 26 October: last day to apply for an Absentee Ballot. People who will not be able to go to the polls on 2 November, e.g., college students attending college out of town, people who may be traveling or are confined due to illness, should request an Absentee Ballot.

4 — Quest 1 September 2004 ALL ABOARD Frog Song by Marge Piercy Board Decisions and Appointments Water lilies float like half moons on Herring Pond silent as marble by Phillip Lowe, Board Chair where ragged and patchy alewives* The Board held its August meeting drag themselves along in the spring on 23 August, and a Board Retreat and finally home free, spawn. and working meeting is also sched- uled for 28 August. We are delighted We paddle our canoe swishing on flat to be able to report that the Board has landing pads. The cups of the lilies approved the appointment of Dave rise, dreams almost taking off Marks to serve the remaining term of Treasurer. This will be slightly less but held on their long balloon than a one-year assignment, with a strings anchored in fishy muck. full-term (3-year term) Treasurer to be part of the next annual Congregational The canoe glides over dream lilies. vote for officers. Jane Klag will assist Oh havoc, oh crushing waste. But they Dave in this assignment, and we want pop up behind us with drops of water to thank both of them for their glittering. Translucent alewife acceptance of these important minnows quiver under them hiding. assignments. Also, the Board ap- proved the appointment of Bob We slide over sky caught flashing among pads. Prestemon as the Chair of the Finance Committee. Thank you, Bob, for We loll on the outstreched agreeing to serve. palm of summer. A dragonfly scouts us, zips off while the sun leaves the gold The Board also set aside 5 September smear of its thumb on every sigh. for a Do-it-Day. After church, we are encouraging everyone to stay and *alewife is a small fish help cleanup and dress up the churchyard. The date was selected so that the gardens and yard will be ready to show off the Church as we Our Vision return to our regular church schedule. As part of the Unitarian Universalist liberal religious community, our Beth Irikura will be in charge of vision is to build an inspiring spiritual home, welcoming to all, that organizing those activities. encourages personal growth, stands for social justice, and instills commitment to the larger community. The Board also discussed participat- ing in the JPD board meeting in September as well as a number of Our Mission management-, membership- and • To inspire through our worship and our religious education a sense finance-related items; however, a final of wonder and spiritual understanding about our world and our faith action was not taken at this time. As that builds love, compassion, and a sense of the interconnectedness of we reach decisions and conclusions, all living things. we will include that information in our • To stand for social justice in our civic society by providing leader- Quest articles. ship, socially responsible religious education, and civic participation for all ages as a community in the Unitarian Universalist tradition. • To offer fellowship and community to all to gather and share diverse activities engendering personal and spiritual growth in an inviting and welcoming spirit. • To spark and instill a love for music and the creativity of the human spirit among all, and to use music and art to share our gifts with others in the community. h 1 September 2004 Quest — 5 Sharing the Ministry Thinking of You We’re also sad to relay that long-time Church and State, UUCR member Susan Walker, 89, by Judy Plumb, Caring Resource Religion and Politics, passed away on July 24. Susan’s life Committee was dedicated to her family, friends, and the 2004 We are elated to report that Jill strengthening civic life, and liberal Presidential Election Asman is home ... still recuperating thinking. She was called “mom” and from her surgeries, but is feeling much will be remembered very fondly by Lecture, discussion, and reception improved. Her daughter Debbie will two generations of young people in with The Rev. Forrest Church, senior be with her for at least a week. Jill her neighborhood of fifty years minister of All Souls Church (Unitar- would like to thank everyone for because of her open door, uncondi- ian), New York City and author of The sending cards of support during the tional love, and open-minded engage- Separation of Church and State: last two months. She’s not yet ready ment with them. In her earlier years, Writings on a Fundamental Freedom for visitors, but cards and notes may she taught “The Church Across the by American’s Founders (Beacon be sent to her home. Street” curriculum for the Unitarian Press, 2004). Universalist young people of Balti- Another member ready to receive our more and at UUCR. She received Friday 15 October, 7:30 p.m. River ‘get well soon’ wishes is Marie several recognitions for her excep- Road Unitarian Church, 6301 River Bestul, who is at the Shady Grove tional leadership and devoted service Road, Bethesda, MD 20817 (First Rehab and Nursing Home. Please in the Lions Clubs International come, first seated), and send them to her at home as hubby Foundation as well as the County Alden and we are hoping she will be Executive of Montgomery County Saturday 16 October, 7:30 p.m. there soon. Certificate of Recognition and Unitarian Universalist Congregation Appreciation. Susan was married to of Fairfax, 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Louise Stark continues to recuperate Robert A. Walker, Jr., mother of Henry Oakton, VA 22124 (Reservations following hospitalization. If you send (Red) G. Walker, both deceased. She is required: Call 703-281-4230). her a card, be sure to include the new greatly missed by her son Richard and room number in her address which his spouse Jean, Robert and his is Louise Stark, Springbrook Nursing former spouse Ellen, and Susan’s two Remember to bring and Rehab Center #115A, 12325 New grandchildren Gretchen and Britton. A water for Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD memorial celebration in her honor will Ingathering 20904-2957. be held at the Randolph Hills Recre- Water ation Center on Sunday 19 September Service Also recuperating from her July 2004 from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. The accident in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is Center is located in the Randolph Hills 12 September Laura Huff. She’s mending slowly Park with the entrance at Ashley Dr. and is at her daughter’s home. Cards and Macon Road, Randolph Hills. If should be sent to Laura c/o you cannot attend, but wish to send a Mrs. Patti Kohler, 210 60th Street, card to her son Robert, his address is Virginia Beach, VA 23451. 11813 Ashley Drive in Rockville, MD UU Young Adults of 20852-2332. Maryland (UUYAM) We’re saddened to report that Terrie by Megan Renner, Barr Fein’s father recently passed This is a column about all of us, so UUYAM Coordinator away at his home in Salisbury, please share your news Maryland, in his sleep. Bob with Barbara Neumann, Chair, Lee Events Emond, 80, was a retired federal Blue, Paulette Campbell, Peggy • UUYAM camping trip to employee and will be fondly remem- Jones, Dorothy Millon Ladd, Holly Monongahela National Forest, bered by his eight children and Meyer, Jewell Golden, Ralph Golden, 17-19 September nineteen grandchildren. His service Judy Plumb, or Jo Wilson. We’re was held Saturday 28 August in looking forward to hearing from you • Young Adult Leadership Escape Salisbury. Our condolences to Terrie soon. (YALE) 15-16 October Barr Fein and her family. For more information, visit our website at uuyam.uuyan.org or contact Megan Renner at 301-807-4963. 6 — Quest 1 September 2004 Calendar

Every Tuesday: Staff Meeting, Sunday, 5: Summer Worship Service, Tuesday, 14: Religious Education Fellowship Hall, 10:00–11:30 a.m. Worship Hall, 10:00 a.m.; Youth Adult Committee, Fellowship Hall, 7:30 p.m. Every Wednesday: Writers’ Group, Committee, Room 44, 10:30 a.m.; Room 44, 10:45 a.m.; Quilters, Comprehensive Planning Committee, Wednesday, 15: Search Committee, Fellowship Hall, 7:30 p.m. Fellowship Hall, 12 noon. Room 44, 7:00 p.m.; Wonderful Every Second Wednesday: National Wednesday, Worship Hall, 7:30 p.m. Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), Tuesday, 7: Social Justice Committee, Room 44, 2:30 p.m. Room 44, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 16: Rosh Hashanah; Choir Every Thursday: Choir Rehearsal, Rehearsal, 7:00 p.m.; Quest deadline, 7:00 p.m.; Alcoholics Anonymous, Wednesday, 8: Coalition for the 8:00 p.m. Room 24-25, 8:00 p.m. Homeless, Worship Hall, 7:00 a.m.; Every Saturday: Alcoholics Anony- Search Committee, Room 44, 7:00 p.m. Friday, 17: Evening Book Club, Room mous, Room 24-25, 8:00 p.m. 44, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 11: Teacher Training, Fellowship Hall, 9:00 a.m. Saturday, 18: For All Ages - Potluck, September Building 1, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, 12: Ingathering Wednesday, 1: Quest Assembly, Intergenerational Service, Worship Sunday, 19: Worship Services, Fellowship Hall, 9:30 a.m.; Children’s Hall, 9:00 am and 10:45 a.m. Worship Hall, 9:00 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.; Worship Committee, Fellowship Hall, Search Committee Town Meeting, 11:30 a.m.; Search Committee, Room Monday, 13: Comprehensive Plan- Fellowship Hall, 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 44, 7:00 p.m. ning Committee - Workshop, Fellow- noon; Publicity Committee, Office/ ship Hall, 7:00 p.m.; Church Council, Workroom, 11:00 a.m.; Town Meeting, Thursday, 2: Children’s Worship Fellowship Hall, 7:30 p.m. Worship Hall, 2:00 p.m. Committee, Fellowship Hall, 11:00 a.m.

Note to Email Users from Reverend Sue: Please note that my email address for church use is [email protected]. When you send an email to that address, Karl Irikura has set it so that Once again I affirmed to myself that my presence in I may receive it on my home PC as Selma had nothing to do with heroism, and every- well as at the office. Please use my thing to do with happenstance. Finally, I remem- other email address ONLY for bered that, despite possible tragedy, one can seldom personal mail. predict the good that may come forth when a person Rev. Sue chooses to stand for what is right and just — whether it be in the schoolyard or on the playing fields of social change.

––Rev. Clark Olsen was minister of the Berkeley Fellowship of Please remember that when Unitarians at the time of the Selma march. Quoted in UU World you change your address, XV:2 (May/June 2001): 28-29. email address, or phone number, you need to notify the UUCR office ([email protected]) so we can update our records.

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From the Minister . . .

These days, as we approach the beginning of your search year, the following quote by poet, Sheila Moon, keeps appearing in my mind:

“A magic dwells in new beginnings. Protecting us, it tells us how to live.”

This second year of your interim time offers an array of new beginnings. I believe it is up to each of us to create the magic we will need to move through each new beginning with solid decisions and renewed zest. I believe this magic has something to do with opening our hearts to the healing that has begun, and having new faith in the capacity of the church community to ask questions and make good choices together.

These days you are a congregation in transformation. It is up to each person to fully live your part of the changes ahead. I look forward to walking with you through this year as it offers search, renewed vision, and the magic of the potential found in the days ahead.

—Reverend Sue Turner, Interim Minister

8 — Quest 1 September 2004 Contents

SUNDAY WORSHIP ...... 1 Search Committee Plans Potluck Supper and Town Meeting in September ...... 1 Mini Do It Day 5 September ...... 1 LIFESPAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ...... 2 REflections ...... 2 LIFESPAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ...... 3 March on Selma – Stories of Courage...... 3 The Cruel Disease: What Can We Do? ...... 3 LIFESPAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ...... 4 A Quiet Time: Meditation at UUCR ...... 4 SOCIAL JUSTICE ...... 4 UUCR Faithful Democracy Project ...... 4 Wonderful Wednesday, 22 September ...... 4 ALL ABOARD ...... 5 Board Decisions and Appointments ...... 5 Frog Song ...... 5 SHARING THE MINISTRY ...... 6 Thinking of You ...... 6 Church and State, Religion and Politics, and the 2004 Presidential Election ...... 6 UU Young Adults of Maryland (UUYAM) ...... 6 CALENDAR ...... 7 Note to Email Users from Reverend Sue: ...... 7

From the Minister ...... 8

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