Upcoming Meetings

This page was last updated on September 7, 2010

Usually, Friday meetings are in Room 7/8 of the education building and Sunday meetings are in the Fahs Room of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento (UUSS) at 2425 Sierra Boulevard, Sacramento 95825.

There is always a slight risk that a meeting will be moved to the Lobby Lounge, or even the Library. The Lobby Lounge is in the main building, entered by the double doors to the right of the Auditorium's double doors. The Library is to the right of the Lobby Lounge.

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The link below will take you to the list of the remaining 2010 meeting dates and locations: 

2010 Meetings

Sunday, September 19, 15:00 (3 pm)
Fahs Room
Richard Carrier, PhD
The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails

Dr. Carrier will be talking about the book, The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails (published by Prometheus Books), to which he is a major contributor.

Edited by John W. Loftus (a former preacher and author of Why I Became an Atheist: Personal reflections and Additional Arguments), with a foreword by Dan Barker (co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, FFRF), The Christian Delusion brings together an impressive array of well-qualified writers to present five main themes:

Richard Carrier’s contributions are “Why the Resurrection Is Unbelievable” (in Part 4) and “Christianity Was Not Responsible for Modern Science” (in Part 5), as well as the online adjunct chapter, “Christianity Was Not Responsible for American Democracy” (intended for Part 5), that didn’t make it into the print edition owing to space limitations.  He is, of course, well qualified to also present the arguments of his co-contributors.

This promises to be a very interesting (and probably well-attended) meeting.

Your edible and/or potable contributions to the snack table will, as usual,  be welcome. Coffee (both regular and decaffeinated) will be provided in abundance.

Friday, October 1, 19:00 (7 pm)
Room 7/8
(To be announced)

Sunday, October 17, 15:00 (3 pm)
Fahs Room
Cleo Kocol
Cleopatra, Immortal Queen

Since her presentation of Fitzhugh’s Woman in May 2009, Cleo has produced another historical novel, set in a much more distant place in a much earlier era.

Cleo’s presentation of Fitzhugh’s Woman was fascinating and brilliant. If her presentation of her latest work is even half as good, it will be more than worthwhile.

The official blurb for Cleopatra, Immortal Queen, says the following:

The mighty Caesar of Rome invades Egypt, the richest country in the world, and Queen Cleopatra VII, barely out of her teens, knows she has to get to him unobserved. He sits in her palace, and her brother's troops as well as the Romans lie between her and success. Determined to hold on to both throne and country, she has herself delivered to Caesar in a rug, and manages to charm the middle-aged man with her intellect, knowledge, and naïve sensuality. Therein begins the historical saga of a woman and the two men who were her lovers, Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, the two most powerful men in Rome.

The novel sweeps through the splendors of Egypt, travels to Rome, Ephesus, Antioch, and Judea in the recreation of the years before the current era. It highlights her relationship, not only with Caesar and Anthony, but also the other famous men and women of the day. Cleopatra's gallant attempts to secure independence for Egypt and a safe future for her children makes for a moving portrayal of her life with the two stylistically-different men who ruled the world.

ISBN-10: 142691539X
ISBN-13: 978-1426915390

Your edible and/or potable contributions to the snack table will, as usual,  be welcome. Coffee (both regular and decaffeinated) will be provided in abundance.

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