Sunday service with guest presenters February Sky
Sun, Aug 25
|Byron Colby Barn
"Humans Wrote the Bible, God Wrote Life - The Teachings of John Shelby Spong"


Time & Location
Aug 25, 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Byron Colby Barn, 1561 Jones Point Rd, Grayslake, IL 60030, USA
About the event
The word “God” can be a hot-button for many Unitarian Universalists. But late maverick retired Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong, whose best known book is “Why Christianity Must Change or Die,” gives us some new ways of looking at the concept. He says, “I can tell no one who God is or what God is. Neither can anyone else – from the Pope to Pat Robertson to the Dalai Lama. That is simply an aspect of human pretending.” We will explore the ideas of this courageous and far-sighted man as expressed by him, and by others, in speech and in song.
February Sky is a folk duo consisting of Phil Cooper (he/him) and Susan Urban (she/her). They specialize in providing music-based services to various UU churches and fellowships while traveling with their music. Susan began presenting these services at 2nd Unitarian Church in Chicago during the 1980s and expanded to…