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Rev. Meg Barnhouse
October 25, 2020
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org

How can American evangelicals love our current president with such fervor and passion? We can go back to the early days of the European and British immigrants from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. How could you tell if you were one of God’s chosen? You are wealthy and healthy and blessed.

 

 

Chalice Lighting

This is the flame we hold in our hearts as we strive for justice for everyone. This is the light we shine on systems of oppression until they are no more. This is the warmth we share with one another as our struggle becomes our salvation.

Call to Worship

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves in the constitution over someone who burns the constitution and wraps themselves in the flag.

– Molly Ivins

Affirming Our Mission

Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.

Learn more about Beloved Community at this link. – The King Center

Meditation Reading

THE FIRE NEXT TIME
– James Baldwin

The spreading of the Gospel, regardless of the motives or the integrity or the heroism of some of the missionaries, was an absolutely indispensable justification for the planting of the flag. Priests and nuns and school- teachers helped to protect and sanctify the power that was so ruthlessly being used by people who were indeed seeking a city, but not one in the heavens, and one to be made, very definitely, by captive hands. The Christian church itself – again, as distinguished from some of its ministers – sanctified and rejoiced in the conquests of the flag, and encouraged, if it did not formulate, the belief that conquest, with the resulting relative well-being of the Western populations, was proof of the favor of God.

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