November 5, 2017

Love isthe spirit of this program. The music spans many genres but has unifying themesof justice, love, learning and hope. The messages come from podcasts, sermonsand readings from Unitarian-Universalist and other allied sources inliberal religion.  The title of this program is “The Heart andthe Hand.”  It comes from the words of abeloved Unitarian-Universalist hymn, “Spirit of Life,” including, “Sing in my heart all the stirrings ofcompassion” and “Move in the hand,giving life the shape of justice.”

Message

Building a Covenant

Kari Gottfried

Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis, Ore.

Sermon

A Radical Welcome” (5/21/17)

Rev. Tim Kutzmark

Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno

Message

Nearly 1,300 Faith Leaders Tell Supreme Court Permitting Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination is Unjust

Religious Institute

Natural Silence

On the Banks of the Emerald River

Andrew Skeotch and Sarah Koschak

Listening Earth

World Religions

Wednesday is the birthday, in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, of Dorothy Day. A social activist, journalist and Catholic convert, she initially lived a bohemian lifestyle before gaining fame as a social activist after her conversion.  She later became a key figure in the Catholic Worker Movement and earned a national reputation as a political radical, perhaps the most famous radical in American Catholic history.  She died in 1980. 

Thursday is the birthday, in 1914 in Greensboro, NorthCarolina, of Thomas Berry.  A Catholicpriest, cultural historian and cosmologist, he championed “ecospirituality” andbelieved that humanity, after generations spent in self-glorification anddespoiling our planet Earth, is poised to embrace a new role as a vital part ofa larger and interdependent “communion of subjects” on earth and in theuniverse.  He died in 2009.

Thursday is the anniversary of the violent 1938 persecutionof Jews in Germany known as Krystallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.  Germans killed hundreds of Jews while theauthorities looked the other way. Jewish-owned buildings were destroyed. The event is seen as the start of the Holocaust.  The anniversary reminds us of the consequencesof religious bigotry and the need for ordinary people to stand and stop it beforeit’s too late.

Friday in Tibetan Buddhism is Lhabab Duchen.  The holiday celebrates what Tibetan Buddhistsbelieve is the time when the Buddha returned to earth after a period ofteaching in the higher realms.  The eventis seen as a metaphor for the manifestation of higher knowledge on earth.  Tradition holds that good deeds aremultiplied on Lhabab Duchen.

Friday is the birthday, in 1483 in Saxony, of the Germanmonk and transformative figure in western history, Martin Luther.  Last week marked the 500th anniversary of hisposting of his 95 Theses, a document which challenged the Catholic Church andultimately led to the Protestant Reformation. His theology upended centuries of Christian dogma and led to bothreligious pluralism and to wars and violent anti-Semitism.  He died in 1548.

Friday is Veterans Day, a time for us to recognize and honorthose who have served our country in times of peace and war.  Although war is never holy, each of thosecalled to service is a beloved soul.  VeteransDay is a time to circle them in love, hold their stories and reflect onbuilding a future worthy of their sacrifices. Thank you to all our veterans.

Saturday is the birthday, in 1793 in Nantucket,Massachusetts, of abolitionist, feminist, pacifist and Quaker minister LucretiaMott.  A co-organizer, with Cady Stanton,of the first women’s rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, she was agifted orator.  She argued for suffrageand economic opportunities for enslaved and formerly enslaved people and women.  She remained a central figure in America untilher death in 1880.

Sermon

Restless Is the Heart” (8/20/17)

Rev. Rob Eller-Isaacs

Unity Church Unitarian, St.Paul, Minn.

Message

Reflection on ‘Me Too’

The Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, President

Unitarian-Universalist Association

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