Questionable Language: Words Matter
Sunday, August 18, 2024, 10:25 am
Online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620
Passcode: BUF
Zoom by phone, for audio only: (346) 248-7799
Meeting ID: 738 363 620
Passcode: 306220
Gathering Music Improvisational
Andrea Rackl, keyboard artist
Welcome Pam Graham, celebrant
Prelude Prelude in C, J.S. Bach
Opening Words from All About Love by bell hooks
Singing Together #360, Here We Have Gathered
(second verse, third line, sing “…adults, children, kin…)
Chalice Lighting & Covenant
Story of All Ages You Are Beautiful When by Fields and Howard
Singing the Children Out We Hold You In Our Love…
Joys and Sorrows
Reflection 1 Questioning Language: Dark and Light
Singing Together #275, Joyful is the Dark (vs 1, 2 & 5)
Reflection 2 Questioning Language: Being or Having
Singing Together #1023, Building Bridges
Offertory We Are… by Ysaye Barnwell, arr. Rackl
Closing words
Singing Together #155, Circle Round
Afterward
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