Holding History: Meaning 3.0
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
November 21, 2021
Rev. Kevin Tarsa with Chuck Champlin, Worship Associate
Jamie Wheal claims that the world has entered a third stage in the human effort to make meaning: beyond the first, religious stage which linked meaning to salvation and exclusion, beyond the second stage, modern liberalism, which anchored meaning in inclusion at the expense of salvation, to a third stage, which Wheal says needs to integrate the first two in order to navigate the current collapse of our traditional anchors. How can history, the human story so far, help us move hopefully and courageously into what comes next?
Greeting Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Song for Gathering Shall We Gather at the River #1046 by Robert Lowry, adapted
Welcome Chuck Champlin, Worship Associate
Lighting of the Chalice For the Memory that Heals and Holds by Rev. Scott Tayler, read by Scottie Hart
Land Acknowledgement read by Jenny Dewey and Carmen Riley
Opening Words Invoking the Past, Present and Future by Katie Romano Griffin, read by Robin Hart
Wisdom for All Ages Back There Where the Past Was, read by Chuck Champlin
Joys & Sorrows
Prayer & Meditation Ever in Our Midst by Karen G. Johnston, read by Rev. Kevin
Music Székely Áldás (Székely Blessing) #1043, Traditional Transylvanian text, music by Beth Norton, Jordan Thomas-Rose, voice, and Tom Wernigg, violin, with Rev. Kevin Tarsa, piano
Where there is faith there is love;
where there is love there is peace.
Where there is peace there is blessing;
where there is blessing there is God.
Where there is God, there is no need.
Sermon Holding History: Meaning 3.0, Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Offering Chuck Champlin
25% of our offering this month will support: Sammie’s Friends, which offers a safe and caring place for neglected, abandoned, and abused animals to be cared for and rehabilitated, when necessary, and adopted as quickly as possible into loving homes.
Since we are not passing a plate in person, giving in other ways is vital to our ability to sustain the work of our community. Thank you for your generosity. See the insert for ways to give by text, PayPal, UUCM’s website or by mail.
Offertory I Wish it Was Easy (But it Ain’t) by Tom Wernigg
Dedication Chuck Camplin
Thank you
Closing Song Life Calls Us On by Jason Shelton, Jordan Thomas-Rose
Closing Words
Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice
Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.
Music for Going Forth