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February’s Theme is Inclusion.
The UUFA monthly theme for January is story. The Fellowship offers many opportunities and invitations to explore and practice the theme. We will be exploring the meaning of story and practice of storytelling in the following Sunday services:
February 2 “Why Am I Here? Why Are You Here?” with Greg Davis
As you walk through the doors on Sunday morning or open the Zoom link, do you ever ask yourself “Why am I here”? Do you ever ask “Why are we here?” During this worship service, let’s explore these questions.
February 9 “More than an Open Door” with Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
What must we do to build inclusion? Our mission opens with the call to build inclusion, but this laudable activity is more involved than opening doors and hearts. In this worship service, we tap into our deepest needs for inclusion and the call of spirit to embrace the fullness of what it takes to build inclusion.
February 16 “Picture ‘Art,’ It’s More than You Imagine” with Broderick Flanigan and Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
Art expresses emotional and spiritual realms beyond the reach of everyday conversations. With this, diversity and inclusion in art are essential to human spiritual flourishing. Join in this worship service as we celebrate the expanse of Black art throughout America’s past and into the present, expressing what it means and what it could mean to be American.
February 23 “Trusting the Ancestors Through Transformation” with Rev. Christina Branum-Martin and Rev. Dr. Pippin Whitaker
Our ancestors have loved us into being, and from that, we are not only resilient, but we are also creative agents forming our lineage of love and liberation that reaches far into the future. Join this bountiful service with the combined choirs of the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Congregation and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens.
Are you seeking more ways to explore the theme of Inclusion?
Consider reflecting on these quotes:
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
– Audre Lorde
There is something to being chosen that is uniquely healing.
– Cole Arthur Riley
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.
– Eboo Patel
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch… and her name
Mother of Exiles… cries she, with silent lips.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me…
– Emma Lazarus (from “The New Colossus” poem at the Statue of Liberty)
Some questions you may use as a prompt for conversation or for a journal entry follow:
- What aspect of your personality do you need to do a better job of embracing and welcoming in? Your judgmental self? Your lazy self? Your vulnerable self?
- What aspect of your life partner, child or close friend do you need to do a better job of embracing and welcoming in?
- If you could go back and change a moment of being excluded or excluding someone else, what would it be?
- Have you or the communities you are a part of invited diverse people into your “house” but not allowed them to “rearrange your furniture”?
