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of All Souls Church in Braintree
January Service Theme
What Does it Mean to be a People of Imagination?
Being guided by “what if...” is something humans do really well. We can imagine possibilities, informed by past observations and experiences, to create new realities that did not exist before.
What Does it Mean to be a People of Imagination?
Being guided by “what if...” is something humans do really well. We can imagine possibilities, informed by past observations and experiences, to create new realities that did not exist before.
Imagination by Andre Moura pexels
Join us for Sunday Online Service at 10:30 am
Everyone is welcome.
https://zoom.us/j/96571006038
To attend a Sunday Service, meeting or connection circle, connect with us on Zoom We are not holding in-person services at this time. By using Zoom, we can see one another’s faces and hear each other’s voices (you can choose to participate off camera if you wish).
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If the technology is a barrier,
you can call in by phone instead of connecting by computer or tablet and enter
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January 24 at 10:30 am: Community Sunday
by the Social Action Environment Committee
The focus of the service will be to continue talking about points raised in the Dec. 15 All Souls discussion of the GA Ware Lecture, “Why We’re Ready for Radical Change”, by Naomi Klein. This discussion is helpful in our planning, in the words of Rev. Susan Federick-Grey: to ”…give all we can to defend democracy, dignity, and liberation and to put people and the planet finally and resolutely above profits.” (By the President, Fall 2020 UUWorld, p. 4)
The SAEC realizes this is not an easy discussion and that there are different views on what our faith calls us to do. Every view, every voice is welcome in this serious discussion, in which consideration and a willingness to listen are essential.
Read The Lecture online here
Naomi Klein’s 2020 Ware Lecture to the UUA General Assembly June 20-23, 2020
https://www.uuworld.org/articles/ready-radical-change?
You can also watch and listen to the lecture here
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7462757/video/433421388
Order of Service
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxvM1bTcNlnC51lbejiGnQGApWfvW6cntWOOtwfyKkU/edit?usp=sharing
Know you are one with community
as you join us online.
Because of COVID-19, All Souls Church's regularly scheduled programs
have moved online.
Connection Circles are our small group offerings:
Online Tuesday Mid-day Meetup, Friday Coffee Hour, and Discussion Groups are Open to All Souls Members, Friends and Visitors.
Tuesday Afternoon Coffee Hour
Meet up with us for some online conversation and companionship
Tuesdays at 3:30 pm.
Friday Morning Coffee Hour
Join us Fridays at 10 am for online coffee and conversation.
as you join us online.
Because of COVID-19, All Souls Church's regularly scheduled programs
have moved online.
Connection Circles are our small group offerings:
Online Tuesday Mid-day Meetup, Friday Coffee Hour, and Discussion Groups are Open to All Souls Members, Friends and Visitors.
Tuesday Afternoon Coffee Hour
Meet up with us for some online conversation and companionship
Tuesdays at 3:30 pm.
Friday Morning Coffee Hour
Join us Fridays at 10 am for online coffee and conversation.
Connection Circle: Anti-Racism Small Group
Join Rev. Jo on six Thursday evenings, as a dedicated group gathers to explore how systemic racism and white supremacy culture show up in our lives and what we can do to dismantle it. The group will meet every other Thursday from 6:30-8:30 pm in the church's Zoom Room. https://zoom.us/j/96571006038
The dates are: January 28, February 11, February 25, March 11, March 25. This is not a drop-in discussion. Pre-registration is required.
All Souls Spiritual Writing Group will meet Wednesday, January 27 at 4 pm on Zoom.
Our theme for the month is Change.
There are many ways we can think about change as we begin 2021. We have new hope in vaccines to stop the Covid pandemic. We have new leaders with fresh ideas, and a renewed focus on addressing climate change. We also have changed, having endured the upheavals of 2020. We are wiser, having learned how events in the submicroscopic realm can result in an uncontrollable pandemic.
Changes occur throughout our lives and impact us in various ways. Some philosophical quotes about change follow:
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Andy Warhol,
“The only thing that Is constant Is change.”
Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, 535 BC – 475 BC
Diane Doucette - for the Writing Group
