[Fuusm-l] Order of Service for Jan. 17, 2021 MLK Sunday

[Kat Hawbaker]

*Zoom*    *Our main FUUSM Zoom Link is the one we use for Sunday Services *

(and other meetings & gatherings).

https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09

Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499 Passcode: fuusm2323

The Sunday Service is also streamed live to Facebook, and you can find it
there later as a video.



First U.U. Society of Marietta

MLK Sunday - January 17, 2021

*Restoring Ruins of Generations*

-Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker


*Do the best you can. And when you know better, do better. *-Maya Angelou



*Prelude **Lift Every Voice and Sing - *sung by Alicia Keys


*Welcome       *Peg Clifford, Worship Associate


*Opening Music **More Love to Thee    *-William H. Doane             Randall
Kidder, Pianist


*Chalice Lighting* *An Introduction to St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, *

Luther’s German Bible of 1522 by Martin Luther, 1483-1546

*Saving faith is a living, creative, active and powerful thing*

*Faith cannot help doing good works constantly… *

*It is just as impossible to separate faith and works *

*as it is to separate heat and light from fire!*


*Readings *excerpt from *The Cure at Troy*   by Seamus Heaney

[ Biden/Harris ]

*The Rhythm of Time*  -by Bobby Sands (1954- May 5, 1981)


*Hymn #121* *We’ll Build a Land  -*B. Zanotti & Carolyn McDade

Singing the Living Tradition



*Reflection* *Restoring Ruins of Generations *              Rev. Kathryn
Hawbaker


*Hymn #169* *We Shall Overcome   *African American spiritual

Singing the Living Tradition


*Joys & Sorrows*

*Announcements*


*Postlude* *I Have a Dream*    by Common

*Breakout Rooms*


*QUIZ in the Chat  *(focus for Breakout Rooms or

What insights have been meaningful in your efforts to be anti-racist?)

*Was MLK a Trekkie? *


What was his theme for the Ware Lecture

at the UUA General Assembly in 1966?


*Who killed Dr. King?*


What might have happened if MLK had been shot in the leg,

and ended up with a limp?


Engraved on the south wall of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memorial in
Washington D.C. is his quote: *I believe that unarmed truth and
unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right,
temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.*


*READINGS & RESOURCES*

*Definition of Faith*  - Martin Luther

*Antinomians* - (Greek) rejects laws or legalism.

Obedience to the law from internal belief, NOT external compulsion.

Considered a heresy - Antinomianism Controversy Mass. Bay Colony. (1636
-1638)

Anne Hutchinson

Anabaptists of the Radical Reformation -  Forebearers of Transcendentalists?


*How do we know what we know? *

Epistemology-  the theory of knowledge, with regard to its methods,
validity, and scope.

Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief
from opinion.



*Black Swan Event*

The term is based on an ancient saying that presumed black swans did not
exist-

which became reinterpreted to teach a different lesson

after the first European encounter with them in Australia.

*An event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, *

*and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact.*

The psychological biases that blind people, both individually and
collectively,

to uncertainty and to a rare event’s massive role in historical affairs.

The importance of the metaphor lies in its analogy to the *fragility of any
system of thought. * Conclusions are potentially undone once any postulate
is disproved.

excerpt from *The Cure at Troy*   by Seamus Heaney


Human beings suffer,

They torture one another,

They get hurt and get hard.

No poem or play or song

Can fully right a wrong

Inflicted and endured

…

History says, don’t hope

On this side of the grave.

But then, once in a lifetime

The longed-for tidal wave

Of justice can rise up,

And hope and history rhyme.


So hope for a great sea-change

On the far side of revenge.

Believe that further shore

Is reachable from here.


Believe in miracle

And cures and healing wells.

Call miracle self-healing:

The utter, self-revealing

Double-take of feeling.


If there’s fire on the mountain

Or lightning and storm

And a god speaks from the sky

That means someone is hearing

The outcry and the birth-cry

of new life at its term.







excerpt from *The Rhythm of Time*  -by Bobby Sands (March 9, 1954- May 5,
1981)

Irish hunger striker and election winner,  Provisional Irish Republican
Army (IRA)

* * *

It is found in every light of hope,

It knows no bounds nor space

It has risen in red and black and white,

It is there in every race.


It lies in the hearts of heroes dead,

It screams in tyrants’ eyes,

It has reached the peak of mountains high,

It comes searing ‘cross the skies.


It lights the dark of this prison cell,

It thunders forth its might,

It is ‘the undauntable thought’, my friend,

That thought that says ‘I’m right!’
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