Print
Category: Local News Releases Local News Releases
Published: 05 February 2018 05 February 2018

 Feb. 11 at 10 am, 3845 North Swan Street - "The Invisible Underside of Poverty in America" - A flurry of recent books has brought attention to what is happening in our country, with more people slipping into poverty, yet remaining almost invisible to the news. Sunny Kellerman will facilitate a discussion of poverty in America and how we are involved in it, whether we know it or not.

She will focus on three recent books, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance; “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” by Matthew Desmond; and “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America,” by Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer. Kellerman is a member of the UUFSC Fellowship and a former senior manager of The Hunger Project-US.

This will be a Family Program Sunday. During February, the Children's Program will finish examining the “Power of Earth” by discovering how connection to one's location allows us to reach out to others in the particularity of their location. We will then transition to examining the “Power of Air” which is the power of stillness, of listening and openness and breathing; as part of the activities, children will honor a spiritual tradition of air by creating prayer flags.
There will be coffee and conversation after the service, and visitors are welcome.