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April 20th, 10:30am
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Hope is Risen: A Multigenerational Celebration of Easter
Rev. Dr. Craig and CDFM Michelle
At the heart of the Easter celebration is the rising of hope in the midst of death, the rising of light in the midst of darkness, the rising of solidarity in the midst of despair. Let us rise this Easter to a newfound articulation of the power of Unitarian Universalist values in a world that needs a big dose of Easter hope.
Music: Michael, Music Director; UU Singers; Sister Singers
Following the service, for our youngest, there will be a celebratory egg hunt!
April 20th, 9:00am
UUCMC Community Room
Civil Resistance Can Defeat Authoritarianism. Tony
Civil resistance is a nonviolent way for ordinary people to fight for their rights, freedom and justice. Resistance movements are powerful because they summon mass participation to resist oppression by employing actions such as boycotts, strikes and demonstrations.
Tony has been a member of UUCMC and our Social Justice Committee for 13 years. For the last 8 years he has chaired or co-chaired the UUCMC Democracy/UU the Vote Team. He also is a member of UUSJ Democracy Action Team.
For more: Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Erica Chenoweth; How we can meet the challenges of authoritarianism, by Maria Stephan, Waging Nonviolence (wagingnonviolence.org), November 2024. Online Course: Civil Resistance 1: The Dynamics of Nonviolent Movements, Gandhi-King Global Academy, United States Institute of Peace.
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April Monthly Theme: The Practice of JOY
We’re only here for a minute. We’re here for a little window. And to use that time to catch and share shards of light and laughter and grace seems to me the great story.
There’s joy to be found in how people manage to survive.
Joy is exactly what is happening, minus our opinion of it.
A person will be called to account on judgment day for every permissible thing they might have enjoyed but did not.
Happiness is attached to things being a certain way. But joy is about the bliss OF BEING. It transcends highs and lows.
I hadn’t considered noting the difference between pleasure and joy. I hadn’t considered pleasure as something you can have, and that joy was something you could enter but have to let go.
Joy—flighty, jumpy, startling thing that it is—often finds its true voice within its opposite…as a bright, insistent spasm of defiance within the darkness of the world.
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.
We’re a nation hungry for more joy: Because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude.
The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.
