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November
2020

Upcoming Events
Check the weekly invite to see if our other church groups
begin using Zoom to meet online.


November 4th
Book Club
Discussion of "A Land Remembered"
Location to be Announced
Social Distancing Observed
6 p.m.
Invitation to  church members to follow via email
or contact Michele Moen for details.


November 5th
Churchyard  Cleanup
10 a.m.


November 9th
Board of Trustees Meeting
2p.m.
via Zoom
All are invited to attend virtually. Please contact Joe
WolfArth for Zoom link

November 26th
First United Methodist Church Thanksgiving Meal
Volunteer Shifts 11:00 a.m. & 1 p.m.
See article in newsletter about volunteering


Wednesdays and Saturdays
Chair Yoga
Zoom
links in the Weekly Invite


Email church email for more information on how to join
dbcuuc@dbcuuc.org

Turn, Turn, Turn: UUA Southern Region Virtual Assembly 2020 Saturday, November 14, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Join your Southern Region staff team and sibling Unitarian Universalist congregations in the Southern Region for a day of collaboration and learning! UUA President Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray will be our keynote speaker in the morning. Afternoon workshops include: •           Widening the Circle of Concern with Kathy McGowan and Rev. Nato Hollister •           What's Next? The Changing Congregational Landscape with Natalie Briscoe and Connie Goodbread •           Small Group Ministry and Membership Paths with Cameron Young and Lillian Drab-Braddick  Registration fee: $20 per person

  Registration: https://uua.wufoo.com/forms/turn-turn-turn/

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Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford
May 6, 1829 — June 2, 1921

Writer, Activist, Minister

The following information is taken from Wikipedia. 
To read more, please click on this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phebe_Ann_Coffin_Hanaford

Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford was a Christian Universalist minister and biographer who was active in championing universal suffrage and women's rights. She was the first woman ordained as a Universalist minister in New England and the first woman to serve as chaplain to the Connecticut state legislature.

During the Civil War, Hanaford become an abolitionist. She was an active suffragist as well, becoming a member of the American Equal Rights Association, which advocated for both black and female suffrage. She spoke at suffrage meetings at the state and national levels and served as vice president of the Association for the Advancement of Women in 1874.

Hanaford turned to preaching and writing, producing a total of 14 books. The first of these, Lucretia the Quakeress (1853) was inspired by the life of a famous cousin, the abolitionist and women's rights activist Lucretia Coffin Mott.Another of her books, Life of Abraham Lincoln (1865), was the first biography of the president published after his assassination. It sold well, reaching 20,000 copies. She was also a member of the Revising Committee of 26 women who produced commentary for The Woman's Bible.

In the same period, Hanaford joined the Universalist Church of America, which included many members who advocated equality for women. From 1866 to 1868, Hanaford edited two periodicals, one of which was The Myrtle, a Universalist Church Sunday school magazine. With the encouragement of suffragist Olympia Brown—who was America's first ordained Universalist woman minister—she studied for the ministry. In 1868, she was ordained a pastor of the Universalist Church and accepted a post at a church in Waltham. She was the first woman ordained in the church in both the state of Massachusetts and New England, and the third to be ordained in America.

The same year that she was ordained, Hanaford separated from her husband—they never officially divorced—and took her children with her. She began living with a woman named Ellen Miles, a situation that caused controversy in her first New Jersey congregation, which referred to Miles as the "minister's wife". Some attribute the title of "First Lesbian" to Hanaford.Although the nature of Hanaford's relationship with Miles is uncertain, their letters testify to a 'deep friendship'. They remained together for forty-four years, until Miles's death in 1914.

November 4th

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
(Satirical Novel)

It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the
South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his
rusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard
the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a
new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain,
is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet
Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an
absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to
university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist
cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and
a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds
and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars
we fight today. 

December 2nd

Florida
by Lauren Groff
(Florida Short Stories)

In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks.

In her thrilling new book, Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical
world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of
the natural world lie waiting to pounce, yet the greatest threats and mysteries
are still of an emotional, psychological nature. A family retreat can be
derailed by a prowling panther, or by a sexual secret. Among those
navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely
boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple, a searching, homeless woman;
and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and
mother.

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even
centuries, but Florida—its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind
—becomes its gravitational center: an energy, a mood, as much as a
place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a
crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about
loneliness, rage, family, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy
and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind
human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments
that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent
achievement.

Books are being selected now for next year!  We can't wait for the selections.  It has been an awesome reading year.