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The Search for Living Prophets
Hosted by Marc Maxmeister · EN
A series for activists who want to work for change in a spiritually grounded, healing-transformative way. Inspired by sermons from Christian leaders, universalist ministers, mennonites, UMC, and other liberal religious voices.
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#64: Declaration of Interdependence
May 31, 2020Tap to summarizeWhat should we think about riots during a pandemic, following a murder in Minneapolis by the hands of police? People respond in two ways: The descend into sectarianism or rise with a Harambee attitude. Hear about the power of interdependence from Fred Small and Martin Luther King, Jr — this is how we build an interdependent world that yields the persistence of justice and lifts us all. [Episode 64: Listen 22:31]
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Jubilee and coronavirus
May 10, 2020Tap to summarize2020 – the year of the covid19 lockdown – is quickly becoming a repeat of the year of the Jubilee from leviticus. A time when wrongs were righted and agriculture came to a halt. The wisdom of this time, as we think about the kind of world we will be restarting, is that there is no equity without scarcity, not justice without sacrifice. Listen 20:14 http://ia601404.us.archive.org/26/items/covid19-in-2020-as-year-of-jubilee/%2363_jubilee.mp3
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Covid19: The Best of Us, and lessons from the plague
Apr 9, 2020Tap to summarizeAs we shelter-in-place during covid19, I wanted to share some of the more inspiring things happening around the world. There is a twitter hashtag #thebestofus that people use to share stories of others making a difference. And, as bad as things seem, did you know that this was the first century in the last 700 years that has NOT had a pandemic? Hear lessons of how people reacted in past centuries wracked with the plague. Did it unite people, or did the catastrophe divide them? This is a small part of my longer journey to discover how I can enrich the lives of others with my talents. Stay Safe, friends! Listen 19:11
Transcribe →Disease and Dis-Ease Symptoms
Mar 28, 2020Tap to summarizeDisease and Dis-Ease Symptoms: Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient cultures is digging up a femur (thigh bone) that had been broken and had been allowed to heal. In the ancient world, if you broke your leg, you’d die. A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell. Helping each other through difficulty is where civilization starts. In these times, hear messages from leaders about how we (re)build community and strengthen ourselves in the process. We are at our best when we serve others. Listen (19:41)
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Out of fear, inspiration
Mar 15, 2020Tap to summarizeIn these trying times, we need to be reminded that we are where we are in the world because past leaders have inspired us to work for the benefit of humankind, to sacrifice for noble causes that have made the world as wonderful as it is today. Here are three speeches that can serve to organize us for the days ahead during the 2020 pandemic: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” — FDR “We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard…. And THAT goal will serve to organize our energies… New hopes for knowledge and peace are out there, and therefore we ask God’s blessing on the most dangerous and greatest adventure on which humankind has ever embarked.” — JFK (Listen to episode— running time: 23:22)
Transcribe →Episode #59: Resist Contempt
Feb 22, 2020Tap to summarizeTwo sermons from 2019 and 2020 about resisting the trap of feeling contempt for people that we disagree with. We are in a national crisis of contempt and it is tearing our world apart. Listen to episode #59 (21:15)
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Episode #58: The Prayer Before the Prayer to Forgive
Jan 18, 2020Tap to summarizeReverend Rob Hardies explains the three things we must all go through before we can truly forgive. The title draws upon a prayer from Desmond Tutu during the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process in the 1990s. And in Part II Jean Botham speaks in court and forgives Amber Guyger for shooting his brother. If you haven’t listened to Episode #57 yet, start there, as this is closely tied to Revolutionary Truth and Reconciliation. [Episode #58 Listen 23:51]
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Revolutionary Truth and Reconciliation
Jan 18, 2020Tap to summarizePeacemaking has many flavors. The language of how we make peace is a spectrum: Forgiveness, contrition, amnesty, reconciliation, retribution, restoration. Hear stories of how Truth and Reconciliation efforts are the bridge between those unwilling to forgive and those unready to own up to past misdeeds. Listen to Episode #57 [20:42] (Sources: UU Oklohoma City, BBC history podcast, Daily Show between the scenes; Soundtrack: Michael Kiwuanuka)
Transcribe →Episode #56: Hold her in the Light
Oct 16, 2019Tap to summarizeMost people have heard of Quakers, but few actually know what they believe. Herein: stories from Quakers about peacemaking, and their own flavor of prayer and activism, captured in the phrase, “Hold them in the Light.” (Music from Alaska Tapes and Joseph Arthur) [Listen 25:19]
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Episode 55: How will the world be different because we met today?
Aug 10, 2019Tap to summarize UU Minister John Crestwell speaks about race, the 2014 Ferguson, MO shooting, Martin Luther King Jr, building relationships with the “other” all under the theme of building the beloved community together. His sermon is mixed to the soundtrack of the Interstellar soundtrack – music by Hans Zimmer. Images and context The QuikTrip That Burned in Ferguson Protests Is Now a Community Center
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