There is No Spoon: Moving Beyond White Fear and Getting to Work on Racial Justice
Our Unitarian Universalist faith calls upon us to seek equity and racial justice in our individual lives and work. But it is not always clear what that looks like or how we break through personal barriers that may be holding us back. This Sunday, Eric Cooperstein will share part of his journey into racial justice work outside of our Church and what is emerging for him from that process.
Please join us for worship at 10 a.m. this Sunday, June 24!
Eric Cooperstein is a long-time member of First Universalist Church. He joined the Board of Trustees in 2014 and has served as President since July 2016. Eric operates a solo law practice devoted to representing lawyers regarding legal ethics issues. Eric credits his Unitarian Universalist faith for guiding his work with his clients. Prior to opening his own law firm, Eric helped implement the settlement of a class action lawsuit by black farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and worked as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis.
Order of Service: June 24 Order of Service
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Offering Recipient: Augsburg Fairview Academy (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?
