WELCOME
Welcome to The
We all come with stories, talents, gifts, and hopes. It is our prayer that with all our differences and all our strengths, we will come together and drink in the spirit! This is sacred space.
PEACE – TOAST
In this place we creatively express;
Some of us are focused, some are a mess!
We participate during the sermon
And people do connect, we are learnin’
Greet all with a handshake, toast or a wave
At all times feel free to yell, rant or rave
Fake not friends, we can arrive as we are.
Cheers! Here’s to sacred space in a bar!
OPENING READING
“As a virtue solidarity becomes a way of life.
It becomes the new way of living out the ‘love your neighbor as yourself’ that up to now has been interpreted as giving out of largesse (generosity/bounty). Given the network of oppressive structures in our world today that so control and dominate the vast majority of human beings, the only way we can continue to claim the centrality of love of neighbor for Christians is to redefine what it means and what it demands of us. Solidarity, then, becomes the new way of understanding and living out this commandment of the gospel.”
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VOICES OF THE PEOPLE
By Jaclyn Jones
CONVERSATIONAL SERMON
Reflections on
“We came from many nationalities and backgrounds. About half the women on the line were from Six Nations. We shared small bits of our culture, favorite foods, or revealed an embarrassing moment. It was just this potential for solidarity the foreman was always looking to sabotage. It was done in little ways, all the time: a whispered lie, a cruel suggestion, a vulgar joke. But it was hard to split us up. The conveyor belt held us together.
Within weeks I was welcomed into the circle, teased, pelted with questions. My differences were taken into account, my sameness sought out. We worked together, we talked, we listened.”
-From Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues, p. 78. A novel about the experience of being “butch,” here she recounts about her work experience in a factory.
SHARING OF RESOURCES
We will share resources with one another and toward The Pub Church.
COMMUNION
Led by Xochitl with a poem.
FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Check the BLOG: thepubchurch.blogspot.com
September 20th location??? Andrew.
CLOSING
Radiant and unfading Wisdom,
you are expansive,
holy,
unique,
manifold;
you are more mobile than any motion; you are a breath of the power of the Divine.
Enter into our souls and stay with us as we close our time today. Amen.
