Relationship with a Difficult Past: An Indigenous Peoples’ Day Service

The place where we worship is the ancestral land of many bands of Dakota People, land never ceded and then lost when treaties were violated and physical violence ensued, land where Dakota people continue to live and work and love. It is also the land of several generations of European-Americans, of some of you whose families journeyed here with the promise of opportunity from which they were cutoff in their countries of origin. And here is the place where want and fear and betrayal brought war and death. How do we reconcile to this past? To what must we admit in order to heal? What truth must be told, what pain must be held, so that we might be good relations?

 

Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining.

The Zoom information for Sunday Worship is below:

UUFM Sunday Morning Virtual Worship 10:30 am Followed by Virtual Coffee Hour Every Sunday Gathering begins at 10:10 am.

Join Zoom Video Meeting by clicking https://zoom.us/j/99358411229 ;or by opening your Zoom icon and entering the Meeting ID 993 5841 1229 where it says “Join A Meeting”; or through an audio-only call by dialing on your phone 312-626-6799, then entering the Meeting ID 993 5841 1229, followed by # . The Meeting password is 883666. You will enter a Waiting Room, and a Host will greet you to admit you to the Worship Space.

Soul Matters Monthly Theme: Cultivating Relationships

 

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