Help us to hear
Your voice, oh God
calling to us on
the wind, to our hearts,
in the authentic
witness of others
in the sharing of
their stories, their truth;
Help us to
understand history
not just from our
perspective
but from the other
side,
from the mirror of
those others
impacted by the things
our ancestors did,
by the things we
do unconsciously
by our conscious
acts against them;
Lead us to a place
within the circle,
to a place of
safety, of healing, of reconciliation,
where truths can
be spoken out loud, calmly,
and where lives
can be changed for the better.
Lead us to more
fully embrace, to cleave to,
Your amazing grace
that alone saves us.
Show us how to
truly love our neighbors,
not just as we
would wish, as we would want;
but to love them
as Christ loves us yet.
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edited July 2, 2015
help us to understand history – v3
(merging edits to original and version 2)
edited June 29, 2015
help us to understand history – v2
June 27, 2015
help us to understand history
&
June 28, 2015
Danforth United
Methodist Church
Scripture Readings
Psalm 130:1-8
2 Samuel 1: 19, 23-27
2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27
Lamentations 3:22-33
2 Corinthians 8:7-15
Wisdom of Solomon 1:13-15, 2:23-24
message: “That Good May Come Out of Evil”
by Raymond A. Foss
New England Annual Conference Resolution on shooting in
Charleston
speech 6/23/2015
South Carolina State Senator Paul Thurmond (R), son of former
South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, remarks on Confederate Flag. Paul
Thurmond remarks on Confederate Flag.
Mark 4:4-8
(bible study topic on 6/17/2015 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church)
&
I forgive you statements of victims’ family – Nadine
Collier, Anthony Thompson, Felicia Sanders
&
Hate Won’t Win
campaign
&
Jon Stewart’s
June 18, 2015 opening monologue on Charleston shooting
&
The funeral for
the Reverend Clementa Pinkney 6/26/15
&
President Barack Obama’s Eulogy (video and full text)
&
June 22, 2015
We pray for our sisters, our brothers
@dreamUMC #dreamumc tweetup on Charleston shooting
Guest Preacher Thom White Wolf Fassett
COMMENTARY: 2012 Act of Repentance of The United
Methodist Church
Recap of Thursday sessions
Act of Repentance
by Pat Warrior Woman Parent
&
article about Native Americans pulling out of Maine
Legislature
May 30, 2015
&
edited June 27, 2015
like a glass plate shattered – v2
edited June 27, 2015
Together within this Circle – v3
(merging edits to original and version 2)
edited/
new name confronting our past, our present, our hate
June
26, 2015
June
26, 2015
confronting
our past, our present
edited
June 26, 2015
listening
to the people of the earth – v4
(editing
version 3)
New England Annual
Conference Resolution on shooting in Charleston
&
speech
6/23/2015
South Carolina State Senator Paul Thurmond (R),
son of former South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, remarks on Confederate
Flag. Paul Thurmond remarks on Confederate Flag.
Mark
4:4-8 (bible study topic on 6/17/2015 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal
Church)
&
I
forgive you statements of victims’
family – Nadine Collier, Anthony Thompson, Felicia Sanders
&
Jon
Stewart’s June 18, 2015 opening monologue on Charleston shooting
&
The
funeral for the Reverend Clementa Pinkney
6/26/15
&
President
Barack Obama’s Eulogy (video and full text)
edited
June 25, 2015
listening
to the people of the earth – v3
(merging
edits to original and version 2)
edited June 25,
2015
a word of healing
– v2
edited
June 24, 2015
listening
to the people of the earth –v2
June
24, 2015
listening
to the people of the earth
edited
June 24, 2015
gathering
mud – v2
June
24, 2015
gathering
mud
(adding other tags for creation story cross-reference)
Bible Study – Inspired by the Word
(on other creation stories)
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
June 23, 2015
&
June 23, 2015
may we be tied, united
June 23, 2015
may we be tied
June
23, 2015
living
stones – 2
June 23, 2015
part of the body, of the circle
June
23, 2015
healing
the breach
June
23, 2015
picking
up the pieces
June
23, 2015
like
a glass plate shattered
June
23, 2015
retying
the threads
June
23, 2015
shooting
within the circle
edited
June 23, 2015
Together
within this Circle – v2
&
June
22, 2015
We
pray for our sisters, our brothers
@dreamUMC
#dreamumc tweetup on Charleston shooting
June
22, 2015
&
June
22, 2015, typo corrected June 23, 2015
together
within this circle
June
22, 2015
Come
Holy Spirit
New
England Conference of United Methodist Church
Annual
Conference 2015 (#NEAC15)
worship
guides
NEUMC
Photos
my
photos
Worship
Director Marcia McFee
Guest
Preacher Bishop Gregory Palmer
Guest
Preacher Thom White Wolf Fassett
COMMENTARY:
2012 Act of Repentance of The United Methodist Church
Recap
of Thursday sessions
Act
of Repentance
by
Pat Warrior Woman Parent
Recap
of Friday sessions
extract
of sermon
Bishop
Palmer
Recap
of Saturday sessions
bible
study on Luke 10 (Good Samaritan)
led
by Bishop Palmer
worship
Laity
Address
by
Janet O’Neill
opening
prayer for morning session on Saturday, 6/20/15
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