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Sunday Morning Dialogs are planned for the 1st & 3rd Sundays at 9am. CLICK HERE for more information.
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September 24th 10:30am
In person and Livestreamed
Storytime for Justice-Seeking Souls
Emily Parker, UUFANJ, Guest Speaker
What do a UU minister, an itinerant rabbi, and a vagabond soup-maker have in common? Come listen to Emily Parker (UU FaithAction NJ) tell three stories of hunger and serve up some hope.
Music: Dr. Louise Chernosky, Nicole Kennelly
Emily Parker serves as Communications Coordinator at UU FaithAction New Jersey. Emily is also a seminarian, completing her M.Div. with a specialization in Public Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. Emily is a lifelong UU who grew up in the old stone walls of Hunterdon UU in New Jersey.
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September Monthly Theme: WELCOME
Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
I was beginning to learn that home is the space within us and between us where we feel safe—and brave. It is not a physical space as much as it is a field of being.
He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, a rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!
[Hospitality] is the first step toward dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around one heart at a time.
I believe every inch of America is sacred, from sea to shining sea. I believe we make it holy by who we welcome and by how we relate to each other. Call it my Muslim eyes on the American project. “We made you different nations and tribes that you may come to know one another,” says the Qur’an.
We belong to every part of our lives and every part of our lives belongs to us. Even the failures. The cruelty. The betrayals. The addictions. The cowardice. Until we embrace and welcome back those scared and tender parts with the kindness and forgiveness we so generously give to others, we will never be whole. We will never be home.
It’s amazing really. As a human being all you have to do is enumerate exactly the way you don’t feel at home in the world, and the moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you are already on your way home.
This is going to sound crazy. Say yes to everything. Accept [and welcome in] all offers. Go along with the plan. Support someone else’s dream. Say: “yes”; “right”; “sure”; “I will”; “okay”; “of course”; “YES!”….When the answer to all questions is “yes,” you enter a new world, a world of action, possibility, and adventure..
Hospitality is a form of worship.
