High Street Church Zoom Worship with – Rev. Sarah Oglesby, August 30, 2020
Rev. Sarah explores how showing up and returning to school, to church (and work, and other aspects of life) in the midst of COVID 19 are offering new challenges and understandings of what it means to be a (UU) community. Rev. Sarah explores Rev. Nancy MacDonald Ladd’s book “After the Good News: Progressive Faith Beyond Optimism” and asks us to consider how we can let go of our white, middle class assumptions that “it’s all good, it’s all gonna work out” and instead be aware of where and for whom it is most definitely not working out. How can we let go of our inherited sense of triumphalism and certainty, decenter whiteness, and show up to the work at hand, however imperfectly we may do so? “You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it” (Torah 2:21). What are we called to do together, and with whom are we called to do it?|
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