Rev. Emma spoke at the Williamsburg UU on February 22 as a part of their Diversity / Welcoming Sunday program. She carried greetings to them from the folks at the Harrisonburg UU, and you can hear the return greetings here:
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Scroll down to February 22, and click “Download Podcast”.
Emma’s reflection was entitled: “Diversity, By God (inclusivity is up to us)”. If you stick around for the entire Reflection, the reading she used is a favorite by Richard Rohr:
From Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M, in Where The Gospel Leads Us
God is clearly more comfortable with diversity than we are, and God’s final goal and objectives are much simpler. God, and the entire cosmos itself, are about two things: differentiation and communion. Physicists seem to know this better than theologians and clergy.
If this were cheap liberalism, I would be merely arguing for personal rights, economic justice, or sexual freedom. If this were mere ideology, I would need to line up my credible arguments and proofs. I have very few. I, like many of you, am only a disciple of the poor man from Nazareth. He has made me content with mystery. He has made me less afraid of chaos. He has told me that control is not my task.
He, like the cosmos itself, is about two things : diversity and communion. The whole of creation cannot be lying.