Healing Social and Political Divides

Please join us at 10 AM this Sunday on the UUFEC Facebook Page and on the UUFEC website to watch Kathryn Thompson’s TEDx talk, which suggests that there is a way to reverse the deep divisions in our country through her revolutionary ideas of the power of radical listening. (First aired on January 8, 2020 on YouTube. TEDx Talks)

Order of Service

Call to Worship   Reverend Clark Olsen – GA June 28, 2015 video 

Chalice Lighting   “To Practice Love is to Disrupt the Status Quo,” by Austin Channing Brown.     Josh, Elisabeth, Olivia and Xander Ashley 

          “I believe firmly that to practice love is to disrupt the status quo which is masquerading as peace.”

 A Time for All Ages  Interrupting Chicken,” by David Ezra Stein

Read by Lisa Farley

Meditation Chant Video “ Breathe In, Breathe Out.”

UU Sarah Dan Jones wrote this meditation after the 9/11 tragedy. It is #1009 in the UU Teal hymnal.

Poetry on Video: “Let America Be America, Again,” by Langston Hughes

A Move On. org video

Message  “ Healing Social and Political Divides” by Kathryn Thompson. Ms.  Thompson works in organizations and communities to help create healthy sustainable relationships. 

Extinguishing the Chalice   “We Keep Its Light in Our Hearts” by Maddie Sifantus 

“ We extinguish this flame,
But we keep its light in our hearts, with its message of love and justice,
Taking it outside these walls to the world we live in until we are together again”