Join in the ritual of a potluck dinner. Bring food and drinks to share. We'll learn about various rituals that we've experienced in our own families, share ideas for new rituals, and create some of our own. Come to all or one session. All types, sizes and ages of families are welcome - even if you are "just one person."

Child care will be provided for the younger children who want to play and/or relax after the ritual of "dinner with the family."

Rev. Jon M. Luopa will be in the pulpit. Music provided by the Loft Choir

Using Quaranic quotes, saying of the prophet Muhammad, teching stories and Rumi poetry, Jamal will focus in the first session on the basics of Islam. In the next session, he will talk about issues within Islam, including status of women, jihad, extremism and awkward verses inthe Quran. The third session will concentrate on the resources of spiritual direction in the Quran.

Jamal Rahman is a Muslim Sufi minister at Interfaith Community Church and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He is the author of The Fragrance of Faith and co-author of Out of Darkness into Light.

COMING OF AGE SERVICE
Our 8th graders, their mentors, and Amanda Ayling, Youth Programs
Coordinator, will participate in the
services.

Local Author Lesley Hazelton previews her upcoming book on the Sunni and Shia Split

How did Muhammad, the prophet of unity -- one people, one God -- leave behind such a terrible legacy of division between Sunnis and Shia? This was the question that led Lesley Hazelton to an epic historical narrative known throughout the Middle East, where it is alive in many people's hearts as though it had happened just yesterday. Yet despite siz years of war in Iraq, where much of the story takes place, it is still all but unknown in the West. There is no way to understand today's headlines without this story of Islam's first civil war, Hazelton says, and without respecting its enormous depth and emotive power.

Using Quaranic quotes, saying of the prophet Muhammad, teching stories and Rumi poetry, Jamal will focus in the first session on the basics of Islam. In the next session, he will talk about issues within Islam, including status of women, jihad, extremism and awkward verses inthe Quran. The third session will concentrate on the resources of spiritual direction in the Quran.

Jamal Rahman is a Muslim Sufi minister at Interfaith Community Church and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He is the author of The Fragrance of Faith and co-author of Out of Darkness into Light.

Our monthly business meetings of the Board of Trustees are open to members to attend and observe. All are welcome!

Two services at 9:30 and 11:15am. Rev. Jon M. Luopa will be in the pulpit. Music provided by the Loft Choir.

Using Quaranic quotes, saying of the prophet Muhammad, teching stories and Rumi poetry, Jamal will focus in the first session on the basics of Islam. In the next session, he will talk about issues within Islam, including status of women, jihad, extremism and awkward verses inthe Quran. The third session will concentrate on the resources of spiritual direction in the Quran.

Jamal Rahman is a Muslim Sufi minister at Interfaith Community Church and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He is the author of The Fragrance of Faith and co-author of Out of Darkness into Light.

Two services at 9:30 and 11:15am. Rev. Jon M. Luopa will exchange pulpits with the Rev. Bruce Bode, Minister of the Quimper UU Fellowship in Port Townsend, WA. Music provided by the Loft Choir.