 I'm a spirit of time for all of you. And I promise that you'll stay in memory with problems, but I don't want you to have to do anything. Because I want you to sit there. Don't open the door. Yeah. I'm going to sit right here. I'm going to sit right here. That's all right. I'm going to sit right here. I'm going to sit right here. Yes. Yes. That's the biggest one I have. But I'm happy. Yes. Good. Good. Good. Good. No, I can't do it. Thank you. That's all right. I'm a spirit of time. Maybe I can sit right here. People very much like that. So it started with watching the news. So that's weird. It's weird. I mean, I'll give you a couple more. I mean, I'm here with a lot of people. Most of the person. So you know, I'm here with a lot of people. I'm here with a lot of people. I've seen a lot of people that have seen it so far. It's all weird. I've seen it. I've seen it. I haven't seen it. It's all weird. I've seen it. It's all weird. It's a little... It's a little bit of a cool thing. It's a little bit. It's a little bit. It's cool. It's all weird. It's a little... It's all weird. Yeah. I been friendly with a person It's a very important part. You need to set up a fire. I think that we can actually use a lot of it. We can speed it down. We'll just give it a little bit of a turn. I'm going to make a stop at my house. We'll do a little bit of a little bit of a speed up. And this is what I'm going to do. This is what I'm going to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to start with the same one. It's going to run well. I'm going to get my money going. I'm going to get my money going. Okay. Now, if we'll have a moment of centering silence to gather ourselves together. And now, you join together in singing the ingathering hymn, it's in your order of service or 83 if you want to have the music. Welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual as together we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Rosalind Woodward and on behalf of the congregation, I'd like to expend a special welcome to visitors. We're a welcoming congregation, so whoever you are and wherever you happen to be on your life's journey, we celebrate your presence among us. Newcomers are encouraged to stay for the fellowship hour after the service and to visit the library, which is opposite the auditorium. Bring your drinks and your questions and members of our staff and lay ministry will be on hand to welcome you. You may also look for people holding teal stoneware coffee mugs and these are members knowledgeable about our faith community who would love to visit with you. Experience guides are generally available to give a building tour after the service, but I have nobody signed up, so I don't know whether somebody's going to appear. So if you'd like to gather at that corner, just over by the window there, hopefully somebody will show up. If not, I'm sorry. We welcome to children to stay for the duration of the service, however, because it's difficult for some in attendance to hear in this lively, acoustical environment. Our child haven at the far back corner there and the commons are excellent places to retire if a child needs to talk or move around. The service can be seen and heard from those areas and speaking of noise, this would be a great time to turn off all electronic devices that might cause a disturbance during this hour. I'd like to acknowledge those individuals who help our services run smoothly and we unfortunately don't have a full team this morning. Our sound operator is being covered by one of the staff, Dan. So if anybody feels moved to do technical stuff, it's really quite a lot of fun and there's not very much to do. We have no sound operator right now and Dan is taking it over. We have two lane ministers, Bob Bradford and Tom Boykov. The greeter who met you as you came in was Claire Box. We, Melinda Carr, was doing the ushering and Jim O'Brien picked up at the last minute. Thank you, Jim. And Kelly Bradford also was helping and Anne Ostroma is going to help pass the basket. So it was sort of a mix and match team today. And Miss Nitchke is on her own doing hospitality and coffee and what have you in the kitchen. So thank you all. Please note the announcements in the red floors that will have accompanied your bulletin. It describes upcoming events in the society and provides more information about today's activities. Again, we welcome, we hope today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your hearts and stir your spirit. And now, if a Muslim will come to life with a chalice, please stand and start a walk. For the life of our chalice, a symbol of our new youth faith is yet to hatch and join with me in reading the words which appear in your research. Lightning of fire, spark of the universe that borned by the agent of life and death. Symbol of life and freedom. We desire to understand ourselves and our early home. And now please share with your neighbor and offer them a friend, great inspiration and return to your seat. And now I will give this floor for the sharing of these important matters of our lives. My name is Gail and I light this candle for my cousin Margaret who at 64 has been fighting breast cancer for seven years and reaching the end of that fight. I light it for her and her family. My name is Mary. I've had an interesting summer. My father at a month short of 96 passed away in June. I have a settlement on the divorce when no court date. I moved and I need hearing. My name is Lynn and I'm a lifelong Methodist and we are here visiting from Kansas. And it's my very first time to be in a Unitarian Church. I have several friends who are, but I wanted to light a candle of thanks. I'm also a ninth grade health teacher and I've recently become very activist. I live in small town Kansas. Kansas, Governor Brownback. And in April I became challenged by myself to, I flew to Washington D.C. and participated in the Democracy Spring Initiative and I got arrested. But when we were there, when we were there, the first day that we were, I flew in on Friday after school and Saturday we met all day at the, I don't remember the name, but all souls I think, Unitarian Church in Washington D.C. I was just so impressed. They opened up their whole church or whatever it's called. And there were work, the building. They opened up the building and there were speakers, just amazing energy. There was an art build in the basement and I just, if I ever leave the Methodist Church, I'm really excited to be here. My name is Brent and I'm starting a new career I'm really excited about. My name is Claire and my life is calm. So for that I'm grateful. But I like candles, a one candle for many of my friends who are suffering and family. So Marcy Bradley's father died within the last couple of weeks and two other friends have lost a parent and two of my family members are dealing with terminally ill parents or, you know, just difficult situations. I have a cousin who's struggling with severe depression and so I hold those people in my heart. My name is Michelle and I'm lighting this candle for my daughter Trina who is on her way to Ecuador. As we speak she just took off at O'Hare. She's also with her friends Naomi and Natalie who she met at the First Unitarian Society Youth Group. They're going there for a three week adventure so I'm lighting it for their safety and their fun. Hi, my name is Julia. I just moved to Madison this week to be closer to my two children, a place where my grandfather grew up. I'm from Stevens Point, I'm a member of that fellowship for all over 40 years. So I have been here before because Michael Schumer married my daughter a couple of years ago. So it's kind of nice to be back in Madison where I finished school. My name is Rachel and I'm lighting a candle of joy to celebrate the successful treatment, mental health treatment of my nine-year-old niece, Karina, who has selective mutism. And it's a severe anxiety disorder where she's really hesitant to talk to anyone or strangers. She's been going through therapy for years and I just went on vacation with her and a stranger asked her questions about the camp and she just talked to them and talked to everyone at the camp. This is just a really joyful moment for me and my sister's family. I've spoken to ways and styles of those here, in our community, and throughout the world. And now through standards you are able to see in number six, just as long as I have the record, and our children waiting for summer time at this time, possibly murmuring. Plus we live in a hard-edge season where plastic revel and winging shine and in this space, in this corner of the rainbow, we do not notice wet, moist, as significant drops falling from these spheres that are certain measures of our minds. Almost invisible, those tears soft as dew, fragile, that cling to leaves, feathers, roots, gentle and sure every morning. We are the women of the daylight of pots and steel families and rust stores and stray pots of superhighways that slice our days in tune. Wrapped around the plastic and steel, we brighten our lives. Behind our glasses, we hide our eyes. Our thoughts, shade, see those pure. Smoke fills our minds. Whisky pusses our souls. Polyester casts the bodies from our craft. Our feet through the welcoming stones occur. Our dreams are pendulum memories of themselves and nagging doubt is the false measure of our days. Even so, the spirit voices are singing. Their thoughts are dancing in this dirty air. Their feet touch the cement, the asphalt, the lining. Still they wave dreams we use upon our shattered thoughts. If we do not, if we do not hear. Let us go there, let us find them. Let us listen for water, the careful winging drops that listen on the leaves and flowers. Let us ride the midnight, yearning dawn. Feel the wind striding through our hair. Let's dance the dance of feathers. The dance of wood. And, second, the caged bird. Free bird leaps on the back of the wind that floats downstream to the current dance. And this is way the orange sun rays and bears to play with the sky. The bird that stalks down his narrow cage has seldom seen through his bars of rage. His wings are clipped and his feet are tied, so he opens his throat the same. The caged bird sings with a fearful drill things I've known of long ago still. And his tune is kernel of distant field where the caged bird sings of freedom. The free bird makes another breeze and the thread that is soft we decide which breeze and the backwards rain on the dawn-riding lawn. And he nears the sky, his own. But a caged bird stands on the grave of news. His shadow shouts on a night clear spring. His wings are clipped and his feet are tied, so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful drill of things I've known of long ago still. And his tune is heard from the same. More wonderful. Special music. Can you notice the way Davis spoke on a front-of-the-order service? And now I guess you've seen the poster of the world before you. You're coming this back. And yes, I do not mind his permission if that is suggested. And I was taken by an apologist, way-famous breeze. The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not any of the terms that we knew. They are unique manifestations of making the spirit. Many of us have tended some kind of diversity over cultural competency training, usually in our workplace. This type of training provides lots of information, mostly facts, characteristics, and statistics about the open-movie object. It originated primarily in North Carolina and was intended to, quote, enable effective work in cross-cultural situations, or in the 89 U.S. DHS. But why do we need this? Largely because many people powerfully in the U.S. for a hazard to accept which is an academic health and medical services, because of abuses which have been perpetuated against them by such agencies. Faith, Jim Carmel was a segregated health care and allowed for poorer health care around the world. Faith, that infamous Tuskegee study of un- un-treated symptoms in the Negro male. It ran for 40 years until in 1972 a whistleblower health stock gave government sanctioned force sterilization. Reportedly as recently as in 1977 to 150,000 low-wave health people were being sterilized. Physically, some poor whites and many people of color other groups targeted and who eventually ill and, quote, disabled men and women those were deaf, blind, epileptic, and, quote, physically. Information on the largest state program which just happened to be in California that's a very large state was managed over the world and reportedly used by the Nazis and the other thing is that training was helpful but another approach cultural humility takes it takes us much closer to the core issues associated with race relations and cultural acceptance. Cultural humility involves the process by how we see ourselves and others in an other oriented stance and with the commitment to maintaining this approach to more people from whom we are different. You know the software as well? When I talk diversity quite a few years ago I encourage students to use this phrase to remind themselves that others are not simply different from us that is, unless we see ourselves as the ultimate goal. See, as soon as one's wrote humility is not thinking less of yourself it's thinking of yourself less. I believe this is similar to what President Obama means when he says he hopes Americans will continue to learn to see themselves in each other. For us as a society perhaps all children know you're ready to be almost the office of American exceptions as we use that term today. The French writer taught us such a point of term in the late 1830s when he visited our Republic appears to have used it in characterizing American democracy as unmoving rather than seeing it as it. The latter being more recent term during this June's Human Rights Defenders Forum hosted annually by former President Jim Carter one of their major discussions involved a world that human rights in the name of national security. In summary, they wrote regard for human rights is the most effective area to violence and extremism and the best guarantee of sustaining security. Now as many as powers seem to be saying shall we think that so-called white privilege is at the core of these issues and if we shed this invisible knapsack as painting Macintosh was to refer to it in 1988 will y'all be together last nor do I believe did she. Of course the concept is related but Dr. Macintosh simply gave an A a term for discussing the idea that white people and in some cases only white men can account on certain societal privileges which for more than a century went without notice at least by that point. Macintosh wrote ought to see racism only in the individual acts of neediness not in the systems conferring violence on academic works she then came to understand that she could actually quote have the race in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have the condition into a plugin about its very existence. She created a list of 50 such privileges on which people of power did not necessarily account you may not see that list but I'm reading here when I'm told about our national heritage or about civilization I am shown that people of my power made it what it is I can go shopping most of the time pretty well sure that I'm not involved in a store or brand whether I miss chess but at ours of Hatch I can count on my skin power not to work against the appearance of my financial reliable. If a traffic officer pulls me over or the IRS orders my tax return I can be sure I haven't been a single doubt in the cause of my race here's a therapy for a run I do not have to educate my children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection in one month I will be aware of the unusual walks of public life institutional and social indeed most of us can take the same for granted but certainly not at all when we use many people of power are very very green we just buy them some in his acceptance speech for the 2016 Black Entertainment Humanitarian War popular TV actor Jesse Williams spoke out forced receiving a standing relation from his larger large black audience he said things like this award is not for me at the end of the sentence but it's also for the students who are realizing that for a system built to provide and then publish and destroy us cannot stand if we do and in his closing remarks he said we're done watching and waiting while this invention of whiteness uses and uses us now Mr. Williams is not fringe activist but a respected man of color an actor an activist and his feelings apparently reflect those of thousands of people of color in addition to his famous comic parts in that audience that we take is this surprising most of his friends from gay embrace anatomy yeah I think he brought this reference to the invention of whiteness makes me think of author and the romantic magazine or respondent Kamahasi Coates in his highly popular New York Times bestseller of which my dear friend telegraphed me and they brought me to Christmas he writes Americans live in the realm of the race as a divine indisputable feature of the natural world rendered as a innocent daughter of mother nature and this means one is left to implore the middle of passage or the trail of tears the way on the floor is perfect or tornado or any other phenomenon that can be passed as we all know and work on men he goes on to say but race is the child of races both book and actual this is a letter to this 15 year old black son sensually a story of how folks in south stopped by a police was stopped by a police for no apparent reason and then released without a reason as late as when a college friend was stopped by a police the same year he scores under certain similar circumstances he was killed since he wouldn't have been for this yet the main historical and cultural distractions woven throughout are the reason he creates such confounding words with us it looks like each time a police officer engages us death injury remaining is possible the dreamers as he calls once accept this as a cost of doing business accept our offers as currency because it is their tradition these words give us a punch in the gut yet that feeling of collective gut is an essential insight into the thoughts of athletes and men in America thoughts and things we have no way of knowing unless we listen and listen without judging others true we must work very hard to make ourselves where others true the stories of people in most of us in the world people from whom we are different those of us who began our lives in small towns were on the place of saying this especially owe it to ourselves, our children, and our world to break the loose of the bonds in which we grew up to embrace the other world of colors sounds, tastes, smells, traditions and religious practices that fill most of the intended to imply that we use our unenlightened phrases far our new principle number one the inherent worth and dignity of every person is the one that I personally hold us and most central to our new core we are known for social justice work we do in support believe we want to learn about ourselves and others a small world in Canada town and at the first time I was ever a minority person in a room was when I visited a wonderful African American church on the south side of Chicago when I was not even a girl I stepped into an entirely new world and was welcomed and embraced by kind people whom I had never had before at that time it was the most human spiritual moment I had ever experienced and yet only 19 years before my birth about 40 miles up higher than 9 from my child to the home a lynching had occurred in Marriott at the end the lynching of two young black women captured in time as an appropriately black and white photo which became the basis for building holidays jazz, classic, strange groups strange friends grew up in a room from our town and I didn't even know anything about it until I was an adult my family didn't even talk about that kind of stuff now there are 80 years after that 200 trillion in the air what do you better understand the collective memories of those who were sacrificed for their race, creed, and religion the indigenous peoples of Marriott who were brought together on us in tradition African women can now be forced to consummate to America as slaves Jews who are massacred out of ignorance and hate and all the other different people in the world perhaps more importantly how can we begin now to live with the new view of our world one which pledges to see the world from other oriented stance if we accept that cultural humility is a practice which is followed who changed the world for the better still, how long can we move from here to there? there's no simple answer nonetheless, I will be strong in order to have any hope for success in this endeavor we must engage in a long term authority process and practice it daily of course, as we come forward we really look at people from whom we are different from us, and wonder how they feel, think their religion how we live by reading, watching, and simply living but different there are many books which are context books novels, historical novels and biographies which can help us put us in their shoes if only for a few hours there are lots of newspapers and magazines and even festivals and celebrations all for that simply because we're fortunate to have the worst community gap there and wonder our staff have been hiding at the set of the table and we out on the stairs and after the service I'll be out there and happy to share some of my ideas for publications and books that can just help us know what's going on I'd like to introduce you to a remind-you not stand for any other one developed by Dr. Donna Hicks it is called the Dignity Model and it's so straightforward as to seeing obvies of course it requires a lucid human quality but also that of seeing one another as worthy of being but can I imagine to grab your two twos, you won't I want you to make your record of Dr. Hicks's declaration which is also posted on the table back in the comments she wrote imagine what the world would be like if we treated each other as if we meant if we all found each other's dignity and alone and that we are all worthy of having our identity set in condition of our unique qualities have knowledge of to be seen further and respond to belonging and feeling included freedom and impact and a life of hope be safe and secure be true and fair being given the benefit of the doubt being understood and given the knowledge of when someone lets us on really sure it's true but ultimately require a little thing called a paragraph shift meaning one who is actually a world view is replaced by another of course this is actually not a whole thing and it is a rather very big deal I am a new cultural humility and the reduction of racism in our world about the imagination reduction of racism in our world is a paragraph shift not occurring there those who resist change and there are many are going kicking and screaming I doubt I would see this accepted in my lifetime but I do believe it will come I don't know if you notice this yet but I love the way our reflections have flowed into my love of Islam and on July 17 my new buddy Jim O'Bornan referenced Dr. Daniel Worcester's words what ails us most is not what we have done with America but the images we have are marked with the voice of America to discern pollution will not solve the problem of the world but it may help us discover that we cannot must not try and make the world in our language and the OECD co-founder of WPV Du Bois is credited to saying either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States maybe we can plan everything possible to replace ignorance with self and cultural humility so that our beloved community may flourish with dignity and respect among all maybe so blessed being our home and now please be generous with financial contributions as the ushers collect the offering which bids us our great community and for many good words we join the community we are going to sit at the welcome table be noted with the awareness of the existence of life and of the sufferings that are going on around us let us practice the establishment of peace in our hearts and on the earth amen and blessed being we remain seated for the first time