Watch and Engage

We continue our exploration of Love at the Margins with an experience of worship rooted in the Love that lives beyond binaries, gender binaries in particular. Hear from members of our community whose lives bust open the binaries so many have been taught to live inside and find the love that meets us there. This will be a celebration of what is possible no matter what power dictates as norms.

This is a Common Ground Sunday! Children and youth will begin the service in the sanctuary with their families, and then all ages will move together to the Cummins Room for programming.

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On this second Sunday in our February worship theme of Universalist Love at the Margins – on this Superbowl Sunday – we’ll remember that there are many ways to do gender and we’ll explore the variety of ways that masculinities take shape in life-affirming ways in Unitarian Universalism and in our lives. In a faith tradition that expects us to learn and grow, explore and choose how we live in alignment with our values and our deepest selves – what does it look and feel like to intentionally choose what masculinity means for each of us?

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In this moment of pain and lament, we come together to grieve and to remember our power and purpose. We continue to lean into the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, and answer together with clear resolve. Through it all, we’ll focus on our monthly worship theme of Resilience, Rest, and Justice – three practices we surely need to orient and ground ourselves in for these times and the days to come.

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Join Rev. Laura and Worship Associates Sherry Merriam, Nancy Potter, Dallas Rising, and Gary Hoover, as we share reflections on the four parts of lamentation: lament, petition, confess, and intentions. We will also offer a ritual guiding each other through these four parts of lamentation. It will be a beautiful way to reset for the New Year.

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As the darkness peaks, we tell stories to hold each other tight – solstice, Advent, Hanukkah. This morning we’ll hold the story of Advent and of the coming birth of revolution we can all hold and participate in this time of year and always. An ensemble of members will lead us in songs of the season and we will also learn some concrete skills about bearing legal and spiritual witness to the current crisis of federal presence in our cities right now.

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