A couple of thousand years ago, Aristotle said, "People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together." At BUC, individuals get to know one another by passing the salt at intimate dinner discussion groups, and eating salted popcorn at BUC Film Buffs events.
Social interest groups appear like mushrooms on the lawn, thrive for months or even years, then vanish when tastes and interests change. Yet upon this nebulous social whirligig, friendships are formed that serve a lifetime, and the community itself is solidified.
Defining a social interest group isn't all that easy . . . I consider the Rummage Sale a social interest group, for example, and that's where I met and got to know a lot of people when I first came to the church. Carol Glass
Passages selected from Birmingham Unitarian Church, The First 50 Years.
