How does a changed understanding of our past alter not only the agreements we make in the present but also the plans we make for our future? How can we best honor our individual and collective agreements going forward?
Hear Senior Minister the Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason preach her sermon “Keeping Agreements” in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. This sermon was given Sunday, October 10th.
“One of our guiding UU principles is respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part, and we need to understand the part we play in it America now, the part we have played, and the part we would like to play well into the future. “And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that make one circle, wide as daylight and starlight… to shelter all the children of one mother and one father,” the Lakota medicine man Black Elk said, “and I saw that it was holy.” Can we see so many interlocking circles? Can we appreciate how enormous and inclusive they are? Can we revere them as holy?“
