• Our Share the Plate recipient for this week is the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice and Sustainability. They are a statewide coalition of activist groups and citizens of conscience connecting with each other, fostering education, and functioning as a catalyst for community organizing to create a peaceful, just, and sustainable world. 

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Order of Service

• Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
• Centering Sound
• Welcome
• Prelude: “Flowers and Candles,” by Carmen Lundy
• Call to Worship
• Opening Hymn: #153 “Oh, I Woke Up This Morning”
• Lighting the Chalice
• Musical Response
• Time for All Ages: “Three Wise Women,” Megan Mathieson
• Hymn: #170 “We Are a Gentle, Angry People”
• Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “Your Life Matters” by Kenny Wiley
• Reflection: “Black LIVES Matter” with Rev. Karen
• Offering: “If,” by Jackie Moore
• Joys and Sorrows
• Closing Hymn: #169 “We Shall Overcome”
• Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
• Postlude: “Something’s Gotta Give,” by Ann G

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Music Connections

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Notes from the Service

Podcasts:

• The Emergent Strategy Podcast (adrienne marie brown)
• Octavia’s Parables Podcast (adrienne marie brown and Toshi Reagon)
• How to Survive the End of the World (adrienne marie brown and Autumn Brown)
• Code Switch (NPR)
• Levar Burton Reads
• Black Like Me (with Madison’s own Alex Gee)
• Dare to Lead (Brene Brown)

Websites:

• A History of Black Madison
• Madison365.com

Black Authors mentioned:

• Isabelle Wilkerson
• Toni Morrison
• Octavia Butler
• N.K. Jemison
• adrienne marie brown – List of Books
• Richard Harris – “Growing Up Black in South Madison” (available from the library)

Online Course:

10-week series offered by The Madison, WI Institutes for the Healing of Racism, Inc

Topics: Monthly Themes, Widening the Circle