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Handle With Care: I’m Fragile

Today’s conversations often fall back onto the subject of “racism” or “white privilege.” What if we were asked this question: “How has your life been shaped by your race?” That is definitely something that would give us pause to reflect. Yet the answer to that question should give us some insight into our world. When we cannot adequately express what it means to be white, it would be impossible to know what it means to not be white, but a person of color. Let’s talk about White Fragility and some of the myths about racism that are a part of church life.

It’s Possible

Shel Silverstein epically wrote, “Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS, . . . the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS, . . . then listen close to me: ANYTHING can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.”
We’ll consider the possible.
And not to be missed is the debut of TUU Sees, our very own house band! The TUU Sees formed in December, and this ensemble performs well-known music from yesteryear and encourages audience participation and spontaneous displays of exuberance.
Piano/Guitar: Andy Callender;
Bass Guitar/Piano: Breck Lebegue;
Keyboards/Percussion: John Hargis

Practicing Anti-Racism

Throughout the centuries since Europeans colonized North America, there have been intertwining movements advocating racism and anti-racism. As we remember Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights movement of the last century, we’ll explore what anti-racism is and what it might look like today.

Lifting the Lost

Mike Yoder, the Executive Director of Associated Ministries is in our pulpit this morning. He’ll share about the essential work of AM, and the world-healing, life-changing they’re doing to address homelessness in Pierce County.

Epiphany Possibilities

You are invited to join in a worship adventure featuring the Western Christian tradition of Epiphany and the possibilities it offers for living deeply Universalist lives!

Casting Off

Before we can set sail to new adventures, we need to cast off the lines that have been tethering us safely to the dock. What do you want to let go of before heading into 2019?

The Christmas Story

This all ages pageant without preparation centers on the story of Jesus’ birth. There will be parts to cast on the morning of the performance, and, as always, animals to be part of the manger scene are most welcome. Come along and make it a grand celebration!

Job’s Wife

There’s little so mysterious as the existence of good and evil and how we make sense of them in our lives and in ourselves. The story of Job in the Hebrew scriptures offers us insight into it, and especially when we consider his unnamed wife in the story.

Coincidence?

We humans like connections. We link this event to that event, and work to create meaning. Or is it to find the meaning that’s already there. Where does meaning come from? We’ll sort it out. Maybe.