By Jamie Hinson-Rieger
There are many reasons we come to worship. We come to hold up our highest values. We come to confront life’s biggest questions in fellowship with each other, seeking what James Luther Adams called “intimacy and ultimacy.” But also we come simply to love, to feel and express the love and gratitude we have for the mystery of life. In this service we’ll celebrate devotional worship.
Special music by Liz Efroymson.
Readings:
Mirabai, “Unbreakable”
http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2012/07/11/mirabai-unbreakable/
Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
http://www.bartleby.com/142/208.html
Advice on Worship and Sermons, from Rev. James Kubal-Komoto
http://www.stanuu.org/tips.html
On Mirabai and devotional worship:
“Hinduism Hot and Cool” by Rev. Anthony David
http://www.uuca.org/sources-of-wisdom-hinduism
Carl Sagan, quote from The Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
William Ellery Channing quote, “We lay no stress on strong excitements…”
Excerpted from:
“Unitarian Christianity” sermon delivered at the Ordination of Rev. Jared Sparks in The First Independent Church of Baltimore on May 5, 1819
http://www.americanunitarian.org/unitarianchristianity.htm
Found in:
Ana Levy Lyons, “The Disembodied Denomination:
A Search for Bodily Practices in Unitarian and Universalist Worship”
http://analevylyons.org/storage/thesis_pckt.pdf
Music Presentation:
“Glorious Dawn” words by Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/videos.html
Podcast: Download (Duration: 24:22 — 13.9MB)
