As this is Indigenous Peoples Day weekend, Rev Eric explores what he has learned, or thinks he has learned, from cultures he is not a part of. There may be a fine line between appreciation and appropriation. Yet even on that fine line, can we find room to dance?

 

Centering Music, Welcoming Chime | Rev. Eric & Linli

Announcements  | Glen

Introit:  #1000 Morning Has Come  | Linli 

Opening Words | Ben Ogilvie

Land Acknowledgment  |  Glen  

Chalice Lighting  |  Rev. Eric

Hymn:  #1031  Filled with Loving Kindness   | Linli 

Wisdom Tale: “The Way to Start a Day” by Byrd Baylor | Rev. Eric

Singing Our Children Onward   

Joys, Sorrows, & Gratitudes | Rev. Eric and Glen

Moment of Silence

Music for Returning   Rev. Rebecca Parker  | Linli   

Reading: A Long Road From ‘Come by here’ to ‘Kumbaya’
                by Samuel G. Freedman  | Glen

Musical Interlude  |  Linli

Sermon:  Appreciation and Appropriation    |   Rev. Eric

Hymn:  #1057 We Begin Again in Love   | Linli  

Offertory | Glen  

Hymn:  #159 This Is My Song  | Linli  

Benediction | Rev. Eric

Extinguishing the Chalice | Rev. Eric   

Postlude: Title | Linli

Final Wave | Rev. Eric