“James Luther Adams” and Blessing of the Backpacks Rev. Dan Miyake

Since it is back to school time, Rev. Dan will be offering a special Blessing of the Backpacks during the service on August 23rd.  Everyone, even adults, is welcome to bring their backpack, briefcase, purse, or other bag to be blessed as we enter into a new school and church year. This service will include the blessing of the back packs.   Since this is our first gathering in several weeks with vacations and the July break,  we will have a picnic potluck as a “welcome back” to Rev. Dan and everyone else.

The Unitarian theologian James Luther Adams spent much of his life asking what difference our beliefs actually make—not only in our own lives, but in the world we share.  He believed that a religion that was only based on internal beliefs without any external impact was no real religion.