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UU Congregations affirm and promote 7 Principles that were adopted in 1985, and there’s currently a movement to add an 8th Principle which links our anti-racist and anti-oppression commitments to the foundational seven. This morning, we’ll explore why many congregations have already adopted the 8th Principle, and the possibility of doing so at JRUUC.
Share the Plate
Share the Plate donations this week will go to MOSES, a non-partisan interfaith organization that works to promote social justice with a focus on ending mass incarceration and to eradicate the racial disparities in our community that contribute to injustices. JRUUC is a member of MOSES, the Madison chapter of WISDOM, the statewide organization.
Order of Service (click for .pdf)
- Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
- Centering Sound
- Welcome
- Prelude: “Profetiza, Pueblo Mio”, composed by Rosa Martha Zárate Macias
- Call to Worship
- Opening Hymn: #1027 “Cuando El Pobre”
- Lighting the Chalice
- Musical Response
- Time for All Ages: “Kids Learn About White Privilege,” Channel 4
- Hymn: #317 “We Are Not Our Own”
- Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “Our Faith’s Complacency in Racism,” Nathan Ryan, and “Questioning Our Assumptions,” Matthew Johnson
- Reflection: “The 8th Principle of Unitarian Universalism” with Rev. Karen
- Offering: “Lay Laya,” by Mazhari Xhaleghi, performed by Shadi Fallah
- Joys and Sorrows
- Closing Hymn: #131, “Love Will Guide Us”
- Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
- Postlude: “Olam Chesed Yibaneh,” by Rabbi Menachem Creditor
The Eighth Principle: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”