Jim Aikin and his parents and sister were members of our congregation in the early 1960s, when we were the Livermore Unitarian Fellowship. Following a successful career as a staff writer and editor at a magazine for musicians, Jim returned to Livermore in 2002 and rejoined UUCiL in 2015. He is the author of a number of books, both fiction and nonfiction, a private cello teacher, a perpetual auto-didact, an expert in music technology, and an avid board game player.
Until the middle of the 19th century, agnosticism and atheism in the modern sense were almost literally unthinkable. But the foundations of conventional faith had been gradually shifting and weakening for several hundred years prior to that. In this service we’ll explore how and why … read more.
