Join us on Wednesday evening for the launch of our Spring Seminarian Series, hosted by Rev. Karen Hutt and led by a different seminary student each week. Wednesday Meditation is an online-only midweek time of meditation, reflection, and connection that usually lasts about 30 minutes.

This week, we’ll hear a message from Meg Mercury—“Theology for a Time of Smashed Street-Lamps”—which invites us to consider how we are to respond theologically/philosophically as people of good faith to times of crisis and turmoil. They draw on the words of James Luther Adams, UU theologian, and Jan Carpenter Tucker, BLUU essayist, in conversation with the poem “Lines to a Poet” by Josephine Jacobsen (see below). They discuss the importance of loving community, JLA’s concept of the prophethood of all believers (truth-telling), and Tucker’s discussion of sankofa (drawing wisdom from our past).

Meg Mercury (they/them) is a student of Religion and Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, and they live in Minneapolis with their dog, Molly. Their passion is constructing theologies (and philosophies) that are life-affirming and critical of oppressive systems of power. And yes, they’re a lot of fun at parties.

Connect to the livestream here – 7 p.m.

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“Lines to a Poet” by Josephine Jacobsen

Be careful what you say to us now.
The street-lamp is smashed, the window is jagged,
There is a man dead in his blood by the base of the fountain.
If you speak,
You cannot be delicate or sad or clever.
Some other hour, in a moist April,
We will consider similes for the budding larches.
You can teach our wits and our fancy then;
By a green-lit midnight in your study
We will delve into your sparkling rock.
But now at dreadful high noon
You may speak only to our heart,
Our honor and our need:
Saying such things as, “See, she is alive . . . “
Or “Here is water,” or “Look behind you!”