Adult RE Class Beginning October 4, 2023: This class is full...but check back after the new year for another adult RE class lead by Derek
Derek Gersdorf is leading a discussion-based class this fall on the Unitarian luminary, Ralph Waldo Emerson. As Cornell West said in his UUA Ware lecture, "Emerson may have left the Unitarian Church, but it left it's mark on him". We will mainly use primary texts by Emerson (but will add some insightful audio/visual materials) from the book The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings, edited by David M Robinson and published by Beacon Press (a UUA press). It includes many of the foundational essays that formed the American philosophical movement called Transcendentalism. There will be eight sessions on Wednesday evening from October 4th to November 29th (skipping Oct 11th) at 6:30 pm in Room 201 at the First Unitarian Church. If you do not wish to purchase the book, most of the essays are free online.