In a time when loneliness is deepening, violence is rising, and truth feels increasingly like fiction, Rev. Denise Cawley reminds those who believe in love that they hold a secret recipe. Fewer and fewer people know how to build Beloved Community, let alone one that is just, equitable, and fosters a sense of belonging. She challenges us to see nuance where others push us into binary thinking. In this moment that feels like apocalypse, she argues, the answer is community, and she calls on each of us to go all in on making that community what we dream it can be. [Image from openclipart.com]
Worship Associate: Marti Everett, Music: Molly Mitchell, Candie Douglas
The Share the Plate recipient for Sunday, October 11 and 18 is the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Since 1984, GLIFWC has served eleven Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan who reserved treaty rights with the US government in 1836, 1837, 1842 and 1854. GLIFWC advances land and water stewardship, restoration, education and outreach in support of indigenous treaty rights throughout the ceded territories.
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Order of Service
- Gathering Song “Come, Come, Whoever You Are” #188
- Welcome
- Prelude “Hungry” by Molly Mitchell
- Call to Worship
- Lighting the Chalice and Musical Response
- Centering in Beauty
- Shared Music “There Is More Love Somewhere”#95 (gray hymnal)
- Time for All Ages “Parable of the Sower”
- Shared Music “Let Out My Wings” (Sing Out Love)
- Deepening Wisdom
- “How to Survive the Apocalypse” by Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
- “When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation” by Kyle Tran Myhre
- Reflection
- Offering “Chores” by Molly Mitchell
- Welcome for Candie Douglas
- Shared Music “All Will Be Well” (Sing Out Love)
- Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
Topics: Courage