Centering De-centering
Our racial justice commitments lead us to know that in the face of white supremacy, we should “de-center whiteness,” but what then? This service will explore the dynamics of centering and de-centering and what they might mean for us as a church and denomination.
Please join us for worship on Sunday, Aug. 5 at 10 a.m.
Guest speaker: Arif Mamdani
Arif Mamdani is preparing for Unitarian Universalist Ministry and recently completed his ministerial internship at Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul. Arif is currently serving on a team providing interim ministry services at the UU Church of Minnetonka while also finishing his Master of Divinity degree at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
Listen to the Sunday Service Podcast:
Order of Service: August 5 Order of Service
Offering Recipient: Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity (give here)
Summer Worship Theme: Emergence
We humans look at a flock of birds flying overhead, sketching awe-inspiring designs in the sky, and think the birds must be following a leader. But leadership alone has never been the full measure of history nor the full inspiration of the beauty and patterns that emerge from a community of birds in flight. In fact, the patterns we see in the sky are made by each individual bird bringing to the group its own creativity and reacting to the movement of two or three of its neighbors. It is a dance between freedom and faithful followship. Our work in community, our efforts in justice making, and patterns of right relationship emerge in the same dance between freedom (our own creativity) and faithful following (our commitment to our neighbors, community). Together we create patterns of love and justice. This summer we ask: what makes something emerge? How and when do we lead? How and when do we follow? Where and how do we place our attention? What is emerging?
