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Beauty is a subjective thing, and the dominant culture’s definitions have and continue to cause harm to women, adolescents, people of color, transgender and gender non-conforming people, and many others. This morning, with Audre Lorde and Sonya Renee Taylor as our guides, we’ll explore nurturing beauty as a practice toward justice.
Share the Plate
The Share-the-Plate donations for May 28th and June 4th will go to Focused Interruption, an effort by local community members to provide evidence-based intervention and prevention to those most impacted by gun violence.
Order of Service
- Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
- Centering Sound
- Welcome
- Prelude: “Scars to Your Beautiful” Alessia Cara
- Call to Worship
- Opening Hymn: ##361 “Enter, Rejoice, and Come In”
- Lighting the Chalice
- Musical Response
- Time for All Ages: “The Beauty Contest” by Christopher Buice
- Hymn: #1053 “How Could Anyone?”
- Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
- Reflection: “Nurturing Beauty” with Rev. Karen
- Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “Beautiful Body” by Natalie Patterson
- Reflection: “Nurturing Beauty” with Rev. Karen
- Offering: “There is a Love” Rebecca Parker, Elizabeth Norton
- Joys and Sorrows
- Closing Hymn: #1014 “Answering the Call of Love”
- Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
Topics: Beauty