1 00:02:28,689 --> 00:02:30,689 [MUSIC AND SINGING] 2 00:05:17,694 --> 00:05:19,694 [MUSIC AND SINGING] 3 00:08:05,697 --> 00:08:07,697 4 00:12:59,699 --> 00:13:03,697 >> >> GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME, ALL, TO 5 00:13:03,698 --> 00:13:07,697 THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2015 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE 6 00:13:07,698 --> 00:13:09,698 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST 7 00:13:10,698 --> 00:13:12,696 8 00:13:12,697 --> 00:13:14,697 HERE IN THE CITY OF ROSES, PORTLAND, OREGON! 9 00:13:22,698 --> 00:13:23,698 MY NAME IS SUSAN PECK, AND I AM HONORED TO 10 00:13:23,699 --> 00:13:27,697 SERVE AS YOUR GA MUSIC COORDINATOR THIS YEAR. I WOULD 11 00:13:27,698 --> 00:13:29,698 LIKE TO INTRODUCE MY 12 00:13:30,698 --> 00:13:31,698 COLLEAGUES IN THE GA BAND, WHO WILL KEEP 13 00:13:31,699 --> 00:13:33,699 OUR SPIRITS SINGING ALL WEEK. 14 00:13:35,699 --> 00:13:36,696 ON DRUMS, ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE 15 00:13:36,697 --> 00:13:38,697 JAZZ DRUMMERS IN 16 00:13:40,697 --> 00:13:42,697 PORTLAND, TIMOTHY RAP! 17 00:13:46,699 --> 00:13:48,696 ON BASS, LAYING DOWN THE FUNDAMENTAL GROOVE, 18 00:13:48,697 --> 00:13:50,698 ALSO FROM PORTLAND, TIM GILSON! 19 00:13:56,697 --> 00:13:58,697 20 00:13:58,698 --> 00:14:00,698 UNITARIAN CHURCH OF PORTLAND, DUSTIN HUNLEY! 21 00:14:05,697 --> 00:14:07,697 AND ON GUITAR, OUR GA BAND 22 00:14:08,697 --> 00:14:10,697 LEADER FROM BOSTON, 23 00:14:11,697 --> 00:14:11,697 24 00:14:11,697 --> 00:14:13,697 BUCKLES! 25 00:14:18,698 --> 00:14:20,698 OUR FIRST SONG IS GATHER THE 26 00:14:21,698 --> 00:14:22,698 27 00:14:22,699 --> 00:14:26,696 SINGER-SONGWRITER JIM SCOTT. JIM HAS BLESSED US WITH MANY 28 00:14:26,697 --> 00:14:28,697 COMPOSITIONS OVER THE YEARS AND 29 00:14:29,697 --> 00:14:30,696 30 00:14:30,697 --> 00:14:32,697 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF BUILDING A 31 00:14:33,697 --> 00:14:35,706 I'M SORRY I TURNED TWO PAGES. 32 00:14:41,697 --> 00:14:44,696 AS WE GATHER FOR THIS 2015 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF BUILDING A 33 00:14:44,697 --> 00:14:48,697 NEW WAY, IT FEELS IMPORTANT TO GROUND US RIGHT AT THE START, IN 34 00:14:48,698 --> 00:14:50,698 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM. 35 00:14:51,698 --> 00:14:52,696 THIS BEAUTIFUL SONG HELPS US DO JUST 36 00:14:52,697 --> 00:14:55,697 THAT. THE WORDS WILL BE ON THE BIG 37 00:14:55,698 --> 00:14:58,696 SCREENS. FOR THOSE OF YOU PARTICIPATING 38 00:14:58,697 --> 00:15:01,697 ONLINE, YOU CAN TURN TO #347 IN SINGING THE LIVING TRADITION. 39 00:15:01,698 --> 00:15:04,697 LET US SING WHILE SEATED AS FOLKS CONTINUE TO GATHER 40 00:15:04,698 --> 00:15:06,698 TOGETHER. 41 00:17:31,703 --> 00:17:34,702 >> OUR NEXT SONG IS FOR THE EARTH FOREVER TURNING/POR LA 42 00:17:34,703 --> 00:17:36,703 TIERRA SEMPITURNA. 43 00:17:37,703 --> 00:17:38,701 WE GIVE THANKS TO KIM OLER FOR THE GIFT 44 00:17:38,702 --> 00:17:42,701 OF THIS SONG AND TO GAYLORD SMITH FOR THE SPANISH 45 00:17:42,702 --> 00:17:45,701 TRANSLATION IN THE PURPLE HYMNAL LAS VOCES DEL CAMINO. THE WORDS 46 00:17:45,702 --> 00:17:50,702 WILL BE ON THE SCREENS. FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING AT HOME 47 00:17:50,703 --> 00:17:52,703 YOU'LL FIND THIS AT #163 48 00:17:53,703 --> 00:17:54,702 IN THE GRAY OR #15 IN THE PURPLE 49 00:17:54,703 --> 00:17:56,703 HYMNAL. 50 00:17:57,703 --> 00:18:00,704 WE'VE INVITED UU MUSICIANS NETWORK-MEMBER ANGEL DE 51 00:18:00,705 --> 00:18:04,702 ARMENDI, WHO SERVES OUR CONGREGATION IN TALLAHASSEE, 52 00:18:04,703 --> 00:18:06,703 FLORIDA TO ASSIST THOSE OF US WHO DON'T YET KNOW THE SPANISH. 53 00:18:09,703 --> 00:18:10,703 54 00:18:10,704 --> 00:18:13,701 A PHONETIC LANGUAGE, THE COMBINATION OF CONSONANTS AND 55 00:18:13,702 --> 00:18:16,701 VOWELS ALWAYS SOUND THE SAME, AND THERE ARE ONLY FIVE VOWEL 56 00:18:16,702 --> 00:18:18,702 SOUNDS: "A", "E", "I", 57 00:18:19,702 --> 00:18:21,702 "O", AND "U". , "M" AND "A" IS 58 00:18:22,702 --> 00:18:23,701 ALWAYS "MA", "P" AND "O" IS ALWAYS 59 00:18:23,702 --> 00:18:25,701 "PO". FOR PRACTICE REPEAT AFTER ME 60 00:18:25,702 --> 00:18:29,701 THESE TWO VERSES WE WILL BE SINGING TOGETHER: POR LA TIERRA 61 00:18:29,702 --> 00:18:31,702 SEMPITERNA, 62 00:18:33,703 --> 00:18:36,701 POR LA TIERRA SEMPITERNA, POR EL CIELO Y ALTO MAR, 63 00:18:39,702 --> 00:18:40,701 POR EL CIELO Y ALTO MAR, POR LA VIDA 64 00:18:40,702 --> 00:18:42,702 QUE GOZAMOS, POR LA VIDA QUE GOZAMOS, 65 00:18:45,703 --> 00:18:47,703 CANTAMOS HOY CANCIÓN DE PAZ. CANTAMOS HOY CANCIÓN DE PAZ. 66 00:18:51,703 --> 00:18:52,715 POR EL MUNDO CELEBRAMOS POR EL MUNDO 67 00:18:52,716 --> 00:18:57,701 CELEBRAMOS POR GOZAR DE PLENITUD; POR 68 00:18:57,702 --> 00:18:59,702 GOZAR DE PLENITUD; 69 00:19:01,702 --> 00:19:02,702 HOY CANTAMOS REGRESANDO A HOY CANTAMOS 70 00:19:02,703 --> 00:19:04,703 REGRESANDO A 71 00:19:06,703 --> 00:19:08,703 NUESTRO PAISAJE VERDE AZUL. 72 00:19:09,703 --> 00:19:11,703 NUESTRO PAISAJE VERDE AZUL. 73 00:19:14,703 --> 00:19:16,701 >> OUR WORSHIP LEADERS, THE REV. LEON DUNKLEY, 74 00:19:16,702 --> 00:19:18,702 THE REV. 75 00:19:20,703 --> 00:19:24,700 THE ASSOCIATE MINISTER OF SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, 76 00:19:24,701 --> 00:19:28,702 CO-MINISTERS IN THE SIERRA FOOTHILLS OF AUBURN, CALIFORNIA 77 00:19:29,702 --> 00:19:29,702 78 00:19:29,702 --> 00:19:32,702 THE REV. LYNN GARDNER, AND THE REV. 79 00:19:32,703 --> 00:19:34,703 WENDY BARTEL ARE JOINING US. 80 00:19:37,702 --> 00:19:39,701 AS WE GROUNDED IN GATHER THE 81 00:19:39,702 --> 00:19:42,702 SPIRIT, LET US ALLOW OURSELVES TO SOAR WITH THIS POWERFUL HYMN. 82 00:22:12,702 --> 00:22:13,701 83 00:22:13,702 --> 00:22:16,703 REJOICING. FOR YOU WATCHING AT HOME, TURN 84 00:22:16,704 --> 00:22:19,703 TO #361 IN SINGING THE LIVING TRADITION OR #65 IN LAS VOCES 85 00:22:19,704 --> 00:22:22,702 DEL CAMINO. WE GIVE THANKS TO THE REV. LILIA CUERVO FOR THE 86 00:22:22,703 --> 00:22:26,702 SPANISH TRANSLATION AND LOUISE RUSPINI 87 00:22:26,703 --> 00:22:30,702 FOR COMPOSING ENTER REJOICE AND COME IN. LET'S PRACTICE THE 88 00:22:30,703 --> 00:22:33,702 WORDS WE WILL SING IN SPANISH BY 89 00:22:33,703 --> 00:22:36,702 REPEATING AFTER ME: VEN, VEN, ALÉGRATE HOY. VEN, VEN, ALÉGRATE 90 00:22:36,703 --> 00:22:38,703 HOY. 91 00:22:39,703 --> 00:22:41,704 ES HOY UN Dà A MUY FELIZ. ES HOY UN Dà A MUY FELIZ. 92 00:22:44,704 --> 00:22:46,704 NO TENGAS MIEDO A CAMBIAR. 93 00:22:47,704 --> 00:22:49,704 NO TENGAS MIEDO A CAMBIAR. 94 00:22:52,710 --> 00:22:56,701 >> WHAT A BLESSING IT IS FOR US TO COME TOGETHER! WE 95 00:22:56,702 --> 00:22:58,702 NOW WELCOME UUA MODERATOR 96 00:23:03,702 --> 00:23:08,701 JIM KEY, .[APPLAUSE] 97 00:23:08,702 --> 00:23:10,702 MICHAEL GUINN, MEMBER OF THE UNITARIAN SOCIETY OF SANTA 98 00:23:15,703 --> 00:23:15,703 99 00:23:15,703 --> 00:23:17,702 THOMAS RIDEOUT, DIRECTOR OF MUSIC AT THE FIRST UU 100 00:23:17,703 --> 00:23:21,702 CONGREGATION OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN.[APPLAUSE] 101 00:23:25,701 --> 00:23:28,702 LET US REJOICE AND SING. 102 00:25:40,707 --> 00:25:41,706 >> WE ARE GOING TO BRIEFLY TEACH YOU A SONG THAT WE WILL 103 00:25:41,707 --> 00:25:43,706 SING AT THE END OF THE SERVICE TONIGHT. 104 00:25:43,707 --> 00:25:45,707 THE REV. WENDY BARTEL, 105 00:25:47,707 --> 00:25:48,705 MICHAEL, GLEN THOMAS, AND I ARE GOING TO 106 00:25:48,706 --> 00:25:50,706 HELP ALL OF US LEARN THIS SONG. >> GOOD EVENING! 107 00:25:53,712 --> 00:25:55,712 THIS SONG IS USED WITH 108 00:25:57,706 --> 00:26:00,706 LOVED ONE ANOTHER IS USED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE 109 00:26:01,707 --> 00:26:04,705 FIRST UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST NASHVILLE YOUTH GROUP, WHO ALONG 110 00:26:04,706 --> 00:26:06,706 WITH THE REV. JASON 111 00:26:09,707 --> 00:26:11,707 SHELTON, CO-CREATED THIS SONG 112 00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:17,704 AND THEY SHARE ED IT AT PHOENIX GA, 113 00:26:17,705 --> 00:26:19,706 JUSTICE GA. WE WILL NEED COLLABORATION WHEN 114 00:26:20,706 --> 00:26:24,705 WE BUILD NEW WAYS TOGETHER. COLLABORATION AS IN THIS SONG. 115 00:26:24,706 --> 00:26:28,706 AND EACH OF US HAS A PART IN THAT COLLABORATION AND EACH OF 116 00:26:28,707 --> 00:26:31,706 US HAS A PART IN THIS SONG. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE A 117 00:26:31,707 --> 00:26:33,707 LOW LOWER 118 00:26:34,707 --> 00:26:37,706 VOICE, BY WHATEVER IDENTITY YOU HAVE, BY LOW VOICE 119 00:26:38,706 --> 00:26:41,706 I MEAN THAT SERIOUS NOT A JOKE. LOW VOICES YOU'RE GOING TO SING 120 00:26:41,707 --> 00:26:44,705 WITH MICHAEL. ALL RIGHT. 121 00:26:44,706 --> 00:26:46,705 MICHAEL HERE IN THE MIDDLE WAVING AT YOU. 122 00:26:46,706 --> 00:26:48,705 THERE WE GO. AND THE WORDS ARE ESPECIALLY 123 00:26:48,706 --> 00:26:49,705 THOSE OF YOU WATCHING FROM HOME 124 00:26:49,706 --> 00:26:51,709 HOME, LET US LOVE. LET US SERVE. 125 00:26:52,707 --> 00:26:56,705 LET US HONOR ONE ANOTHER. OH, YES, LET US LOVE, LET US 126 00:26:56,706 --> 00:26:59,705 SERVE, LET US HONOR AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 127 00:26:59,706 --> 00:27:01,706 MICHAEL. 128 00:27:13,705 --> 00:27:15,705 >> LET'S HAVE EVERYBODY TRY THAT . 129 00:27:15,706 --> 00:27:20,706 [SINGING] 130 00:27:28,706 --> 00:27:33,704 >> FOR NOW EVERYBODY WILL SING IT BUT MIDDLE VOICE IS GOING TO 131 00:27:33,705 --> 00:27:36,705 SING GLEN THOMAS FOR THOSE OF YOU SINGING THE MELODY. 132 00:27:36,706 --> 00:27:39,705 THOSE OF YOU LISTENING FROM HOME THOSE WORDS ARE LOVE ONE 133 00:27:39,706 --> 00:27:41,706 ANOTHER, SERVE ONE ANOTHER, HONOR ONE 134 00:27:41,707 --> 00:27:45,705 ANOTHER AS EQUALS HAND-IN-HAND IS THE FIRST PART. 135 00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:48,707 THE SECOND PART REPEATS THAT. LOVE ONE ANOTHER. 136 00:27:49,706 --> 00:27:51,706 SERVE ONE ANOTHER. HONOR ONE ANOTHER. 137 00:27:51,707 --> 00:27:57,705 THAT IS HOW WE UNDERSTAND. SO MIDDLE VOICES WILL SING THAT 138 00:27:57,706 --> 00:27:59,707 LATER ON AT THE END OF THE SERVICE BUT FOR NOW LET'S HAVE 139 00:28:00,706 --> 00:28:05,706 EVERYBODY TRY IT. [SINGING] 140 00:28:44,705 --> 00:28:47,706 >> THE HIGH PART, SUSAN IS GOING TO HELP WITH US THAT. 141 00:28:47,707 --> 00:28:51,704 LET US LOOOOVE AND FUN ANTICIPATION. 142 00:28:51,705 --> 00:28:54,705 FOLLOW HER BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT IS ON THE BEAT. 143 00:28:54,706 --> 00:28:58,706 SOMETIMES IT IS OFF THE BEAT. [SINGING] 144 00:29:22,708 --> 00:29:25,706 >> PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, READY. GOING TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER. 145 00:29:25,707 --> 00:29:27,705 START AT THE BOTTOM. GOING TO DO THE WHOLE THING 146 00:29:27,706 --> 00:29:29,706 LATER. I KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE HARD TO 147 00:29:29,707 --> 00:29:34,707 STOP BUT WE'RE GOING TO SAVE IT. START WITH THE LOW PART. 148 00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:41,705 [SINGING] >> IF YOU HAVE A LOW VOICE GO 149 00:29:41,706 --> 00:29:44,707 AHEAD AND JOIN HIM. 150 00:29:53,706 --> 00:29:56,710 >> NOW, THE MIDDLE PART IS GOING TO COME IN. 151 00:29:57,706 --> 00:30:00,706 [SINGING] 152 00:30:55,707 --> 00:30:57,705 >> BEAUTIFUL. BEAUTIFUL. 153 00:30:57,706 --> 00:31:00,706 BEAUTIFUL. AHHH. 154 00:31:02,706 --> 00:31:04,727 LOOK AROUND THIS SPACE. WOW. 155 00:31:04,728 --> 00:31:09,706 JUST WOW. TO THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE JUST 156 00:31:09,707 --> 00:31:15,705 JOINING US, GOOD EVENING. 157 00:31:19,706 --> 00:31:21,706 OUR 54TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ISN'T THAT AMAZING? 158 00:31:28,706 --> 00:31:30,706 YOU FOUND YOUR WAY 159 00:31:32,706 --> 00:31:34,706 HERE. 160 00:31:35,706 --> 00:31:42,707 THAT'S AMAZING. SOME OF YOU HAD MORE TROUBLE 161 00:31:42,708 --> 00:31:45,705 GETTING HERE THAN IT WAS WORTH BUT IT WILL BE WORTH HAVING 162 00:31:45,706 --> 00:31:47,705 GOT GOTTEN HERE AND FOR THOSE OF YOU 163 00:31:47,706 --> 00:31:53,703 WATCHING ONLINE, WE'RE HERE TO DO THE SOUL WORK, THE HEART 164 00:31:53,704 --> 00:31:57,706 WORK, THE DEEP WORK OF OUR FAITH. 165 00:31:58,707 --> 00:32:02,705 ARE YOU IN? [CHEERING] WE ARE SO PLEASE ED 166 00:32:02,706 --> 00:32:04,706 TO BE WITH YOU THIS EVENING. 167 00:32:05,707 --> 00:32:10,707 OUR OPENING SONG IS THE THEME OF THIS 54TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY 168 00:32:10,708 --> 00:32:13,705 BUILDING A NEW WAY, WRITTEN BY MARTHA SANDEFER. MS. SANDEFER 169 00:32:13,706 --> 00:32:17,705 HAS PLAYED MUSIC WITH TRAPEZOID, R. CARLOS NAKAI, JOHN 170 00:32:17,706 --> 00:32:22,705 MCCUTCHEON, AND GLEN VELEZ. SHE RECENTLY EARNED A MASTER'S 171 00:32:22,706 --> 00:32:26,706 DEGREE IN MUSIC EDUCATION WITH A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY, AND IS 172 00:32:26,707 --> 00:32:30,705 CURRENTLY A MEMBER OF THE WORK 'O THE WEAVERS QUARTET. SHE IS 173 00:32:30,706 --> 00:32:33,705 STRIVING TO BUILD A NEW WAY BASED ON THE WORK AND MUSIC OF 174 00:32:33,706 --> 00:32:35,706 THE ORIGINAL WEAVERS MUSICAL 175 00:32:38,706 --> 00:32:40,706 176 00:32:41,706 --> 00:32:43,706 -- THEY'RE WORTHY OF APPLAUSE FOR 177 00:32:45,708 --> 00:32:47,708 SURE. SO SHE'S STRIVE ING TO CREATE A 178 00:32:48,706 --> 00:32:51,705 CURRICULUM BRINGING FORWARD WHAT IS GOOD FROM THE PAST, 179 00:32:51,706 --> 00:32:53,705 CONSIDERING IT NOW IN THE PRESENT AND TRAINING MUSICIANS 180 00:32:53,706 --> 00:32:57,705 OF THE FUTURE. WE, TOO, HAVE SOME OF THAT WORK 181 00:32:57,706 --> 00:32:59,708 TO DO, REFLECTING ON OUR PAST HONESTLY. 182 00:33:00,708 --> 00:33:04,705 ASSESSING OUR CURRENT STATES AND PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE. 183 00:33:04,706 --> 00:33:10,706 THOSE ARE FOR US TO DO, TOO. FOR THOSE OF YOU WATCHING 184 00:33:10,707 --> 00:33:13,705 OFF-SITE, AND YOU HAVE A TEAL HYMNAL, YOU CAN TURN TO #1017 IN 185 00:33:13,706 --> 00:33:15,705 SINGING THE JOURNEY. AS WE SING, MAY WE FEEL THE STRENGTH AND 186 00:33:15,706 --> 00:33:18,705 CALLING IN THESE WORDS. LET US RISE IN BODY AND/OR IN SPIRIT TO 187 00:33:18,706 --> 00:33:20,706 SING BUILDING A NEW WAY. 188 00:33:33,705 --> 00:33:35,705 [SINGING] 189 00:35:57,713 --> 00:35:59,713 >> ALL RIGHT. 190 00:36:09,712 --> 00:36:17,709 >> I NOW CALL TO ORDER THE 54TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE 191 00:36:17,710 --> 00:36:19,710 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION. 192 00:36:19,711 --> 00:36:23,710 [APPLAUSE] ARE YOU READY FOR A GREAT WEEK 193 00:36:23,711 --> 00:36:25,711 IN PORTLAND? 194 00:36:26,711 --> 00:36:28,709 ARE YOU READY FOR OVER 10 HOURS OF MUSIC AND 195 00:36:28,710 --> 00:36:32,709 WORSHIP? ARE YOU READY TO SAMPLE SOME OF 196 00:36:32,710 --> 00:36:38,709 THE 175 WORKSHOPS TO INSPIRE YOU AND CHALLENGE YOU? 197 00:36:39,709 --> 00:36:44,708 ARE YOU TIRED YET? ARE YOU READY FOR THE WITNESS 198 00:36:44,709 --> 00:36:48,708 EVENT ON SATURDAY? HOW ABOUT THE FOUR HOURS OF 199 00:36:48,709 --> 00:36:50,709 EVENING ENTERTAINMENT? 200 00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:55,708 THAT'S A LITTLE LIGHTER THERE. ARE YOU READY TO PARTICIPATE IN 201 00:36:55,709 --> 00:36:57,709 THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AS OUR ASSOCIATION CONDUCTS ITS 202 00:36:57,710 --> 00:36:59,710 BUSINESS? 203 00:37:02,710 --> 00:37:05,709 THERE ARE OVER 42 HOURS OF PROGRAMMING YOU COULD 204 00:37:05,710 --> 00:37:08,710 PARTICIPATE IN OVER THE NEXT FOUR DAYS IF YOU HAVE THE 205 00:37:08,711 --> 00:37:12,710 STAMINA FOR IT. DO WE HAVE ANY GOVERNANCE WONKS 206 00:37:13,709 --> 00:37:16,708 207 00:37:16,709 --> 00:37:19,709 IF YOU ANSWER YES TO ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS, YOU ARE IN THE 208 00:37:19,710 --> 00:37:21,710 RIGHT PLACE: THE OREGON CONVENTION CENTER IN PORTLAND, 209 00:37:21,711 --> 00:37:28,710 OREGON![APPLAUSE] MY NAME IS JIM KEY AND I AM 210 00:37:28,711 --> 00:37:30,711 PRIVILEGED TO SERVE AS YOUR MODERATOR. 211 00:37:32,710 --> 00:37:33,709 AND CHIEF GOVERNANCE OFFICER. 212 00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:36,710 IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST GA WAVE YOUR HAND. 213 00:37:42,710 --> 00:37:45,710 I WAS WITH A NUMBER OF YOU IN THE GA ORIENTATION THIS 214 00:37:45,711 --> 00:37:49,711 AFTERNOON AND MANY OF YOU ARE DELEGATES I UNDERSTAND. 215 00:37:50,710 --> 00:37:52,715 HOW ABOUT IF THIS IS YOUR 15TH 216 00:37:52,716 --> 00:37:55,710 15TH OR MORE GENERAL ASSEMBLY? ALL RIGHT. 217 00:37:59,711 --> 00:38:01,711 HOW ABOUT 25 OR MORE? 218 00:38:03,710 --> 00:38:05,710 AH. 219 00:38:08,710 --> 00:38:10,711 HOW ABOUT 35 OR MORE? ALL RIGHT. 220 00:38:15,711 --> 00:38:17,711 WELL, 221 00:38:18,712 --> 00:38:22,711 MODERATOR I RECOGNIZE FROM THE HAND WAVING BUT WHERE ARE 222 00:38:22,712 --> 00:38:27,711 OUR TELLERS? DENISE RIMES, COULD YOU GET THE 223 00:38:27,712 --> 00:38:29,711 NAME OF THESE PEOPLE AND I'LL CALL THEM OUT TOMORROW MORNING 224 00:38:29,712 --> 00:38:33,710 BUT THOSE OF YOU OVER 35 YEARS WE WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE YOU 225 00:38:33,711 --> 00:38:36,709 TOMORROW AND MAYBE GET YOU BETTER SEATS. 226 00:38:36,710 --> 00:38:37,709 ON. [LAUGHTER] 227 00:38:37,710 --> 00:38:40,710 WHETHER THIS IS YOUR FIRST OR 54TH, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A 228 00:38:40,711 --> 00:38:47,710 GREAT FOUR DAYS. I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE 229 00:38:47,711 --> 00:38:50,709 OFFSITE DELEGATES AND THOSE PARTICIPATING IN LIVE STREAM AND 230 00:38:50,710 --> 00:38:53,710 MAKE SURE THEY ENJOY THE ACTIVITIES AS WELL. 231 00:38:53,711 --> 00:38:56,709 THE BOARD, THE STAFF, THE PLANNING COMMITTEE HAVE TAKEN 232 00:38:56,710 --> 00:38:59,709 NOTICE OF PREVIOUS YEARS COMMENTS AND EVALUATIONS SO YOU 233 00:38:59,710 --> 00:39:03,710 GA JUNKIES WILL SEE SOME CHANGES AS WE GO THROUGH THE WEEK. 234 00:39:03,711 --> 00:39:06,710 IN WORSHIP AND WITNESS AND IN OUR GENERAL SESSIONS. 235 00:39:06,711 --> 00:39:11,710 FORMERLY KNOWN AS PLENARY. WE HAVE ASKED OUR PRESENTERS TO 236 00:39:12,711 --> 00:39:14,711 237 00:39:16,710 --> 00:39:18,710 WE ALSO ASKED THEM TO CONNECT THEIR 238 00:39:18,711 --> 00:39:20,711 PRESENTATIONS TO GLOBAL ENDS OR SHARED VISION WHICH HUNDREDS OF 239 00:39:21,712 --> 00:39:24,712 YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED IN CRAFTING OVER THE PAST SEVERAL 240 00:39:25,712 --> 00:39:27,711 YEARS. SOME OF YOU IN THIS HALL MANY 241 00:39:27,712 --> 00:39:31,711 YEARS AGO. YOU CAN FIND THEM ON PAGE 115 242 00:39:31,712 --> 00:39:33,712 IN THE PROGRAM BOOK THAT YOU 243 00:39:35,713 --> 00:39:37,710 MAY HAVE THEM ON PAPER OR IN THAT 244 00:39:37,711 --> 00:39:39,711 ELECTRONIC DEVICE THAT YOU CARRY AROUND. 245 00:39:39,712 --> 00:39:45,709 HAVE YOU GOT THE UUA APP? UUA GA? 246 00:39:45,710 --> 00:39:48,712 I ENCOURAGE YOU TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THOSE ENDS. 247 00:39:49,711 --> 00:39:52,712 BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THEM. THAT IS YOUR NORTH STAR GUIDING 248 00:39:53,710 --> 00:39:55,710 YOUR 249 00:39:56,712 --> 00:39:56,712 ASSOCIATION INTO THE FUTURE. 250 00:39:56,712 --> 00:39:59,711 ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE ASKED PRESENTERS TO CHALLENGE US TO 251 00:39:59,712 --> 00:40:00,709 THINK ABOUT THE ISSUES FACING THIS FREE AND LIBERAL RELIGION 252 00:40:00,710 --> 00:40:02,710 IN THIS INCREASINGLY SECULAR WORLD, AND HOW WE MIGHT LEARN 253 00:40:02,711 --> 00:40:06,712 FROM WHAT THEY SHARE.WITH US. AND WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE GA 254 00:40:06,713 --> 00:40:11,711 TALKS THAT ARE SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT THE GENERAL 255 00:40:11,712 --> 00:40:11,712 SESSIONS SESSIONS. 256 00:40:11,712 --> 00:40:15,709 LIKE TED TALKS, TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION DESIGN, THOSE TED 257 00:40:15,710 --> 00:40:17,708 TALKS, MANY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SUBSCRIBE. 258 00:40:17,709 --> 00:40:21,711 LIKE THE TED TALKS WE HOPE THEY INTRODUCE IDEAS WORTH SPREADING 259 00:40:24,711 --> 00:40:25,709 . THESE GA TALKS WERE INSPIRED 260 00:40:25,710 --> 00:40:29,709 FROM THE IDEA BY YOUNG ADULT LEADERSHIP AND YOU NOTICE THEY 261 00:40:29,710 --> 00:40:32,710 HAVE FOUR TALKS BRANDED AS YA@GA . 262 00:40:34,710 --> 00:40:38,711 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] BEFORE I INTRODUCE THE BANNER 263 00:40:38,712 --> 00:40:40,709 PARADE, LET ME SUGGEST YOU KEEP YOUR SMART PHONES AND TABLETS 264 00:40:40,710 --> 00:40:42,710 HANDY. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO TWEET IF 265 00:40:44,711 --> 00:40:46,710 266 00:40:46,711 --> 00:40:49,709 WANT TO USE THE HASHTAG UUAGA SO OTHERS CAN FOLLOW ALL THE 267 00:40:49,710 --> 00:40:52,716 COMMENTS AND PICTURES YOU MIGHT SHARE THIS WEEK ABOUT WHAT YOU 268 00:40:52,717 --> 00:40:58,709 ARE EXPERIENCING. IF YOU HAVEN'T YET DOWNLOADEDIT YOU CAN GO TO 269 00:40:58,710 --> 00:41:05,714 THE APP STORE AND DOWNLOAD GAUUA GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015. 270 00:41:05,715 --> 00:41:06,713 YOU CAN START ON THAT RIGHT NOW 271 00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:09,713 NOW. THE BANNER PARADE IS ALWAYS A 272 00:41:09,714 --> 00:41:10,713 HIGHLIGHT OF OUR FIRST DAY TOGETHER. 273 00:41:10,714 --> 00:41:14,714 IT SHOWS US THE CREATIVE AND ARTISTIC WAYS CONGREGATIONS AND 274 00:41:14,715 --> 00:41:18,714 OTHER UU ORGANIZATIONS CHOOSE TO REPRESENT OUR VALUES, 275 00:41:18,715 --> 00:41:20,715 THEOLOGIES, AND OUR GEOGRAPHIES 276 00:41:21,716 --> 00:41:23,716 277 00:41:25,715 --> 00:41:27,715 ALWAYS FUN, ALWAYS ENERGETIC! LET THE BANNER PARADE BEGIN! 278 00:41:29,714 --> 00:41:35,714 [APPLAUSE] [DRUM CALL] 279 00:46:07,717 --> 00:46:09,718 MMM AH AH... WE CAN BUILD IT WITH LOVE 280 00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,719 BUILD IT WITH PEACE, BUILD IT 281 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,718 WITH HAPPINESS WE CAN BUILD IT WITH HOPE, FAITH, 282 00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,719 TOGETHERNESS 283 00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:34,717 THERE ARE ROADS THAT DIVIDE US IN OUR SEPARATE LIVES RIVER 284 00:46:34,718 --> 00:46:36,718 DEEP, VALLEY LOW, AND MOUNTAIN HIGH 285 00:46:41,718 --> 00:46:45,717 WE NEED A BRIDGE BETWEEN OUR LIVES 286 00:46:45,718 --> 00:46:46,717 A BOND OF UNDERSTANDING FOR THE 287 00:46:46,718 --> 00:46:48,718 OTHER SIDE 288 00:46:49,718 --> 00:46:51,721 LET'S BUILD A BRIDGE FROM ME TO YOU NOT FOR THE 289 00:46:51,722 --> 00:46:57,718 CHOSEN FEW BUT FOR EVERYONE WE CAN BUILD IT WITH LOVE (LOVE) WE 290 00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,719 CAN BUILD IT WITH PEACE (PEACE) WE CAN BUILD IT WITH HAPPINESS 291 00:47:02,718 --> 00:47:03,718 292 00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,718 TO BELIEVE (BELIEVE) THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN'T ACHIEVE 293 00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,717 (ACHIEVE) WE CAN OVERCOME THE BITTERNESS 294 00:47:08,718 --> 00:47:11,717 (BITTERNESS) HEY, JUST BELIEVE IT 295 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,719 (HARMONICA SOLO) 296 00:47:25,717 --> 00:47:26,717 COME ON BOARD SET THE SAILS OF HOPE IN MOTION, 297 00:47:26,718 --> 00:47:29,717 OH SURE THE BOAT FEEL THE WINDS 298 00:47:29,718 --> 00:47:32,717 THAT CHANGE THEY BLOW, THEY BLOW, THEY BLOW 299 00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,716 WE NEED A BRIDGE BETWEEN OUR LIVES A BOND OF 300 00:47:38,717 --> 00:47:40,718 UNDERSTANDING TO STEM THE TIDE 301 00:47:43,718 --> 00:47:44,717 302 00:47:44,718 --> 00:47:48,717 YOU (AH...) NOT FOR THE CHOSEN FEW 303 00:47:48,718 --> 00:47:50,718 BUT FOR EVERYONE WE CAN BUILD IT WITH LOVE 304 00:47:55,718 --> 00:47:58,717 BUILD IT WITH PEACE WE CAN BUILD IT WITH HAPPINESS, 305 00:47:58,718 --> 00:48:00,719 IF WE CAN LEARN TO BELIEVE THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN'T ACHIEVE 306 00:48:01,717 --> 00:48:03,717 307 00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,717 JUST BELIEVE IT 308 00:48:11,718 --> 00:48:15,717 (HARMONICA SOLO) >> JOIN ME EVERYBODY. 309 00:48:16,718 --> 00:48:18,718 A LITTLE BIT OF BITTERNESS 310 00:48:22,718 --> 00:48:23,717 311 00:48:23,718 --> 00:48:29,720 KNOWLEDGE TO GROW THE SEEDS FOR THE FLOWER TO REAP WHAT WE SOW 312 00:48:29,721 --> 00:48:32,721 ALL OF THE PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER 313 00:48:32,722 --> 00:48:34,722 ALL OF US EQUAL NO ONE IS BETTER 314 00:48:38,721 --> 00:48:40,722 NO, NO. POWER, PEOPLE, FLOWER, PEOPLE 315 00:48:45,723 --> 00:48:47,721 316 00:48:47,722 --> 00:48:49,722 FLOWER, PEOPLE 317 00:48:52,726 --> 00:48:56,721 WE NEED A BRIDGE BETWEEN OUR LIVES A BOND OF 318 00:48:56,722 --> 00:49:01,721 UNDERSTANDING FOR THE OTHER SIDE 319 00:49:01,722 --> 00:49:03,721 LET'S BUILD A BRIDGE FROM ME TO YOU (AH...) NOT FOR THE CHOSEN 320 00:49:03,722 --> 00:49:05,722 FEW 321 00:49:06,723 --> 00:49:10,721 BUT FOR EVERYONE WE CAN BUILD IT WITH LOVE WE CAN BUILD IT 322 00:49:10,722 --> 00:49:12,722 WITH PEACE WE CAN BUILD IT WITH HAPPINESS, 323 00:49:17,721 --> 00:49:25,721 WE CAN LEARN TO DEFEAT, HUNGER AND POVERTY BUT IT'S GONNA TAKE 324 00:49:25,722 --> 00:49:28,722 TOGETHERNESS. WE CAN BUILD IT WITH LOVE, WE 325 00:49:28,723 --> 00:49:34,721 CAN BUILD IT WITH PEACE, WE CAN BUILD WITH IT HAPPINESS WE CAN 326 00:49:34,722 --> 00:49:38,721 FINALLY DEFEAT HUNGER AND POVERTY BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE 327 00:49:39,721 --> 00:49:41,721 TOGETHERNESS, TOGETHERNESS 328 00:49:45,722 --> 00:49:47,723 [ [APPLAUSE] 329 00:50:06,722 --> 00:50:09,723 >> YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOU CAN FEEL A LITTLE LIKE 330 00:50:10,723 --> 00:50:16,722 WE DON'T HAVE MUCH LIKE THE LIFE WE HAVE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH AND IT 331 00:50:16,723 --> 00:50:18,721 COULD BE LONELY. BUT JUST TAKE A LOOK AROUND. 332 00:50:18,722 --> 00:50:20,722 LOOK AT ALL THAT YOU HAVE GOT HERE. 333 00:50:20,723 --> 00:50:22,723 DO NOT FORGET THIS. TAKE THIS HOME WITH 334 00:50:24,722 --> 00:50:26,722 YOU. RELISH IN IT. 335 00:50:30,723 --> 00:50:33,722 ¶ 336 00:50:56,723 --> 00:50:59,722 SOMETIMES IT SEEMS A MYSTERY THAT THROUGH OUR LIVES AND 337 00:50:59,723 --> 00:51:00,722 HISTORY THE ROLES WE PLAY KEEP CHANGIN' 338 00:51:00,723 --> 00:51:00,723 339 00:51:00,723 --> 00:51:03,721 JUST BEGIN TO FIND THE LIFE THAT THRIVES 340 00:51:03,722 --> 00:51:05,721 WITHIN WE'LL FIND THE TIMES ARE 341 00:51:05,722 --> 00:51:07,722 SIMPLER ON OUR MINDS 342 00:51:10,723 --> 00:51:12,721 THERE REALLY ISN'T THAT MUCH TO IT, 343 00:51:12,722 --> 00:51:15,723 THOUGH SOMETIMES WE JUST GET THROUGH IT IT'S MOSTLY 344 00:51:15,724 --> 00:51:17,724 EXPECTATIONS THAT LET US DOWN 345 00:51:19,723 --> 00:51:21,721 346 00:51:21,722 --> 00:51:24,721 HANDS IF WE WOULD ONLY UNDERSTAND 347 00:51:24,722 --> 00:51:31,722 TO KEEP THE FLAME ALIVE SPREAD IT AROUND AND WE'LL HAVE ONE FOR 348 00:51:31,723 --> 00:51:36,723 THE WORLD THAT HOLDS US ONE FOR THE TEACHERS WHO MOLD US ONE FOR 349 00:51:36,724 --> 00:51:38,724 JUSTICE FOR HUMANKIND 350 00:51:41,723 --> 00:51:43,722 ONE FOR THE TIES THAT BINDS US ONE FOR 351 00:51:43,723 --> 00:51:45,723 THE LOVE THAT FINDS US 352 00:51:46,723 --> 00:51:48,723 DANCIN' DOWN THIS ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE 353 00:51:52,723 --> 00:51:53,721 354 00:51:53,722 --> 00:51:55,722 LOSE, FORGET WE HAVE A CHANCE TO CHOOSE 355 00:51:58,723 --> 00:52:00,723 THE CHOICE WE MAKE MAY BE A 356 00:52:02,724 --> 00:52:05,722 DIFFERENT WAY IN THE END IT COMES TOGETHER, WE HAVE A CHANCE 357 00:52:05,723 --> 00:52:07,723 TO MAKE IT BETTER DECIDE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH EACH DAY 358 00:52:11,724 --> 00:52:13,722 THE LIGHTS WE HOLD MAY NOT SEEM 359 00:52:13,723 --> 00:52:16,722 MUCH, BUT IF WE ONLY KEEP IN TOUCH 360 00:52:16,723 --> 00:52:18,723 WITH ALL THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW ARE REAL 361 00:52:21,722 --> 00:52:23,721 TOGETHER OUR LIGHTS WILL SHINE BRIGHTER THE 362 00:52:23,722 --> 00:52:28,721 PATH AHEAD A LITTLE LIGHTER MAKE SOMETHING OF THIS TURN OF THE 363 00:52:28,722 --> 00:52:31,723 WHEEL AND WE'LL HAVE ONE FOR THE 364 00:52:31,724 --> 00:52:37,721 WORLD THAT HOLDS US ONE FOR THE TEACHERS WHO MOLD US ONE FOR 365 00:52:37,722 --> 00:52:39,722 JUSTICE FOR HUMANKIND 366 00:52:41,722 --> 00:52:43,721 ONE FOR THE TIES THAT BINDS US ONE FOR 367 00:52:43,722 --> 00:52:45,722 THE LOVE THAT FINDS US 368 00:52:47,722 --> 00:52:49,722 DANCIN' DOWN THIS ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE 369 00:53:11,721 --> 00:53:13,721 SISTER, BROTHER, MOTHER, FATHER 370 00:53:13,722 --> 00:53:16,721 - THEY ARE JUST WORDS SO DO NOT BOTHER 371 00:53:16,722 --> 00:53:18,722 TO LIVE YOUR LIFE CONSTRAINED BY CERTAIN RULES 372 00:53:21,723 --> 00:53:23,722 CELEBRATE JUST WHO YOU ARE, FOLLOW YOUR PATH, 373 00:53:23,723 --> 00:53:29,720 FOLLOW THE STARS THAT SHINE AND LIGHT YOUR PATH TO YOUR TRUTH 374 00:53:29,721 --> 00:53:33,720 AND WE'LL HAVE ONE FOR THE WORLD THAT HOLDS US ONE FOR THE 375 00:53:33,721 --> 00:53:36,721 TEACHERS WHO MOLD US ONE FOR JUSTICE FOR HUMANKIND 376 00:53:40,721 --> 00:53:42,722 ONE FOR THE TIES THAT BINDS US ONE FOR 377 00:53:42,723 --> 00:53:44,723 THE LOVE THAT FINDS US 378 00:53:45,723 --> 00:53:46,721 DANCIN' DOWN THIS ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE 379 00:53:46,722 --> 00:53:47,721 380 00:53:47,722 --> 00:53:49,722 ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE 381 00:53:52,722 --> 00:53:54,721 SEEMS TO ME A MYSTERY THROUGH OUR LIVES 382 00:53:54,722 --> 00:53:57,722 IN HISTORY THE ROLES WE PLAY KEEP CHANGING ALL THE 383 00:54:00,723 --> 00:54:03,721 TIME AND MAYBE IF WE JUST BEGIN TO FIND 384 00:54:03,722 --> 00:54:07,722 THE LIFE THAT THRIVES WITHIN WE'LL FIND THE TIMES ARE SIMPLE 385 00:54:08,722 --> 00:54:10,721 ER ON OUR MIND. 386 00:54:10,722 --> 00:54:14,721 THERE REALLY ISN'T THAT MUCH TO IT THOUGH SOMETIMES THEY JUST 387 00:54:14,722 --> 00:54:20,721 GET THROUGH IT IT'S MOSTLY EXPECTATIONS THAT LET US DOWN 388 00:54:20,722 --> 00:54:24,720 THE LIVES WE MEET IS IN OUR HANDS IF WE WOULD ONLY 389 00:54:24,721 --> 00:54:29,720 UNDERSTAND TO KEEP THE FLAME ALIVE SPREAD IT AROUND AND WE'LL 390 00:54:29,721 --> 00:54:34,721 HAVE ONE FOR THE WORLD THAT HOLDS US, ONE FOR THE TEACHER 391 00:54:34,722 --> 00:54:36,722 WHOSE MOLD US, 392 00:54:37,722 --> 00:54:39,722 ONE FOR JUSTICE OF HUMAN KIND. 393 00:54:41,723 --> 00:54:45,723 ONE FOR THE TIE THAT BIND US, ONE FOR THE LOVE THAT FINDS US 394 00:54:45,724 --> 00:54:47,724 DANCING DOWN THIS ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE. 395 00:54:48,721 --> 00:54:52,723 YES WE WILL DANCE ON DOWN THIS ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE. 396 00:54:52,724 --> 00:54:57,720 OH, WE WILL DANCE ON DOWN THIS ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE. 397 00:54:57,721 --> 00:55:02,721 OH WE ARE DANCING DOWN THIS ROAD, DANCING DOWN THIS ROAD, 398 00:55:02,722 --> 00:55:08,724 DANCING DOWN THIS ROAD THAT WE CALL LIFE. 399 00:55:10,723 --> 00:55:12,723 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 400 00:55:42,728 --> 00:55:44,728 [INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC] 401 00:57:12,726 --> 00:57:14,726 402 00:58:31,732 --> 00:58:33,731 >> HOW ABOUT THAT. WASN'T THAT GOOD? 403 00:58:33,732 --> 00:58:40,729 [APPLAUSE] YOU KNOW, I SOMETIMES GET THE 404 00:58:40,730 --> 00:58:42,729 ACCEPTS THEY GO OUT THE BACK AND THEY COME BACK AROUND AGAIN 405 00:58:42,730 --> 00:58:45,728 AGAIN, YOU KNOW. SEEMS TO GET LONGER EACH YEAR. 406 00:58:45,729 --> 00:58:49,731 BUT IT'S ALWAYS FUN. IT'S ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL AND 407 00:58:49,732 --> 00:58:52,729 FANCIFUL BANNERS. I WALKED IN THAT BANNER PARADE A 408 00:58:52,730 --> 00:58:54,731 COUPLE OF YEARS MYSELF. IT IS GREAT 409 00:58:57,733 --> 00:58:59,731 FUN. OUR SINGULAR BUSINESS ITEM FOR 410 00:58:59,732 --> 00:59:01,730 TONIGHT'S GENERAL SESSION THAT REQUIRES THE DELEGATES TO VOTE 411 00:59:01,731 --> 00:59:02,729 IS THE ADOPTION OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR THIS GENERAL 412 00:59:02,730 --> 00:59:04,730 ASSEMBLY. 413 00:59:05,730 --> 00:59:07,730 SO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE DELEGATES 414 00:59:08,730 --> 00:59:09,730 START FUMBLE ING FOR THE YELLOW VOTING CARDS. 415 00:59:09,731 --> 00:59:12,729 YOU'RE GOING TO NEED THEM IN A MINUTE. 416 00:59:12,730 --> 00:59:15,729 THE PROPOSED RULES OF PROCEDURE CAN 417 00:59:15,730 --> 00:59:18,730 BE FOUND THROUGH PAGES 92 THROUGH 94 OF THE FINAL AGENDA 418 00:59:19,730 --> 00:59:21,729 OR PROGRAM BOOK. THESE RULES WILL GOVERN OUR 419 00:59:21,730 --> 00:59:22,730 CONSIDERATION OF, AND VOTING UPON, THE BUSINESS ITEMS THAT 420 00:59:22,731 --> 00:59:25,728 COME BEFORE US DURING OUR GENERAL SESSIONS. THE RULES ARE 421 00:59:25,729 --> 00:59:28,729 LARGELY THE SAME AS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. 422 00:59:28,730 --> 00:59:29,729 THERE ARE A COUPLE OF RULES THAT I WANT TO DIRECT YOUR 423 00:59:29,730 --> 00:59:31,730 ATTENTION TO. 424 00:59:32,730 --> 00:59:34,729 PLEASE NOTE THAT RULE 5 PROVIDES THAT NO 425 00:59:34,730 --> 00:59:37,729 AMENDMENTS TO A BUSINESS RESOLUTION, BYLAW CHANGE OR RULE 426 00:59:37,730 --> 00:59:39,729 CHANGE WILL BE IN ORDER UNLESS SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION AT 427 00:59:39,730 --> 00:59:41,730 THE 428 00:59:42,731 --> 00:59:44,731 MINI-ASSEMBLY FOR THAT ITEM. 429 00:59:45,731 --> 00:59:47,730 430 00:59:47,731 --> 00:59:49,731 PROVIDES THAT, UNLESS THE ASSOCIATION'S BYLAWS OTHERWISE 431 00:59:55,730 --> 00:59:56,730 432 00:59:56,731 --> 00:59:57,731 WILL BE DECIDED BY AN UNCOUNTED SHOW OF VOTING CARDS, OR BY AN 433 00:59:57,732 --> 01:00:00,730 UNCOUNTED STANDING VOTE. A VOTE WILL BE COUNTED ONLY IN TWO 434 01:00:00,731 --> 01:00:03,730 INSTANCES. IF THERE IS DOUBT ABOUT THE 435 01:00:03,731 --> 01:00:06,730 OUTCOME OF A VOTE, I WILL CALL FOR A COUNT. A COUNT WILL ALSO 436 01:00:06,731 --> 01:00:11,730 BE TAKEN IF SO REQUESTED BY A DELEGATE AND IF 99 OTHER 437 01:00:11,731 --> 01:00:13,731 DELEGATES JOIN THE REQUEST. 438 01:00:16,730 --> 01:00:17,729 IN EITHER INSTANCE, THE COUNT WILL 439 01:00:17,730 --> 01:00:18,730 BE MADE BY THE TELLERS WHO ARE PRESENT ON THE FLOOR OF THE 440 01:00:18,731 --> 01:00:20,731 ASSEMBLY. 441 01:00:23,730 --> 01:00:28,729 THEY ARE WEARING THE TREY, SHE CAN, HIGHLY VISIBLE VESTS. 442 01:00:28,730 --> 01:00:30,729 WHERE ARE THEY? WHERE ARE THEY? 443 01:00:30,730 --> 01:00:32,729 THERE THEY ARE. NO VEST THIS YEAR. 444 01:00:32,730 --> 01:00:36,730 ALL RIGHT, IT IS ON THE PALLET. WE HEARD ABOUT THE PALLET THAT 445 01:00:36,731 --> 01:00:43,735 HAS GONE MISSING. WELL ANYWAY, THESE FOLKS IN 446 01:00:43,736 --> 01:00:46,734 WHATEVER THEY'LL BE WEARING WILL BE OHIOLY IDENTIFY IABLE I'M 447 01:00:46,735 --> 01:00:46,735 SURE . 448 01:00:46,735 --> 01:00:51,733 BUT THEY'RE VOLUNTEERS JUST LIKE THE REST OF US SO PLEASE TREAT 449 01:00:51,734 --> 01:00:53,735 THEM WITH COMPASSION. IN ADDITION, RULE SEVEN PROVIDES 450 01:00:54,734 --> 01:00:59,735 THAT SEPARATE MICROPHONES WILL BE DESIGNATED AS PRO AND CON FOR 451 01:01:00,735 --> 01:01:02,735 DISCUSSION BY PROPOSED BYLAWS AMENDMENTS, RESOLUTIONS AND 452 01:01:02,736 --> 01:01:03,733 ACTIONS. YOU CAN SEE THEM SET UP THERE. 453 01:01:03,734 --> 01:01:10,734 THE PR PRO MICROPHONE IS UP FRONT ON YOUR LEFT. 454 01:01:10,735 --> 01:01:13,735 AND THE CON MICROPHONE IS UP FRONT ON YOUR 455 01:01:16,735 --> 01:01:16,735 RIGHT. THERE IS ALSO AN AMENDMENT 456 01:01:16,735 --> 01:01:20,737 MICROPHONE WHICH HAS BEEN PLACED AT THE FRONT OF THEARENA. 457 01:01:21,738 --> 01:01:22,734 OVER HERE. I CAN HARDLY SEE IT. 458 01:01:22,735 --> 01:01:24,735 THERE WE GO. SPOTLIGHT. 459 01:01:24,736 --> 01:01:26,736 LOVELY. AND PROCEDURAL MICROPHONE THAT 460 01:01:26,737 --> 01:01:29,737 HAS BEEN PLACE ED IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF ME. 461 01:01:29,738 --> 01:01:30,736 PLEASE NOTE THAT POINTS OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE AND POINTS OF 462 01:01:30,737 --> 01:01:34,738 INFORMATION MUST BE MADE FROM THE PROCEDURAL MIC, NOTBY THE 463 01:01:35,737 --> 01:01:39,735 WAY, ONLY DELEGATES AND TRUSTEES MAY SPEAK FROM THE MICROPHONES 464 01:01:40,734 --> 01:01:42,736 EXCEPT BY EXPRESSED PERMISSION OF THE MODERATOR. 465 01:01:43,736 --> 01:01:47,735 NOW, THIS IS A CHALLENGE BECAUSE THE FAMOUS RIBBONS ARE ON THE 466 01:01:48,736 --> 01:01:52,735 PALLET THAT HAS GONE MISSING. SO AS YOU GO, WE HAVE A MISSING 467 01:01:53,735 --> 01:01:56,734 PALLET. THE RIBBONS ARE AMONG THE 468 01:01:56,735 --> 01:02:01,734 MISSING SO THIS IS A GOOD WEEK TO PRACTICE OUR THEOLOGY. 469 01:02:01,735 --> 01:02:05,735 WE ARE MORE THAN OUR RIBBONS. [LAUGHTER] 470 01:02:07,734 --> 01:02:10,734 SO YOU WILL NEED TO BRING YOUR VOTING CARD TO THE MICROPHONE TO 471 01:02:10,735 --> 01:02:13,736 SHOW THE TELLER THAT YOU ARE ARE, IN FACT, A DELEGATE. 472 01:02:14,735 --> 01:02:17,736 OR A TRUSTEE. SO I STRONGLY URGE THOSE OF YOU 473 01:02:18,736 --> 01:02:20,736 WHO ARE ATTENDING GENERAL ASSEMBLY, GENERAL SESSIONS FOR 474 01:02:20,737 --> 01:02:24,735 THE FIRST TIME TO READ RULES OF PROCEDURE, PARTICULARLY LOOK AT 475 01:02:24,736 --> 01:02:29,735 RULE 6 ON PAGE 92 OF THE RULES SO THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE TIME 476 01:02:29,736 --> 01:02:30,734 LIMITS IN EFFECT. NO PERSON MAY SPEAK 477 01:02:30,735 --> 01:02:32,736 ON ANY MOTION FOR MORE THAN TWO MINUTES. 478 01:02:32,737 --> 01:02:35,735 THIRTY MINUTES IS THE TIME ALLOWED FOR DISCUSSION OF ANY 479 01:02:35,736 --> 01:02:38,733 PROPOSED BYLAW AMENDMENT, RULE CHANGE, RESOLUTION OR ACTION ON 480 01:02:38,734 --> 01:02:40,734 A REPORT THAT IS ON OR ADMITTED TO THE FINAL AGENDA. 481 01:02:43,735 --> 01:02:45,735 SO BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH OUR BUSINESS, I 482 01:02:45,736 --> 01:02:52,733 WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO TOM BEAN, WHO HAS SLIPPED ON STAGE, 483 01:02:52,734 --> 01:02:54,734 OUR LEGAL COUNSEL AND PARLIAMENTARIAN. 484 01:02:54,735 --> 01:02:59,733 SO IS THIS ALL CLEAR? THERE WILL BE A POP QUIZ AT THE 485 01:02:59,734 --> 01:03:02,735 GENERAL SESSION IN THE MORNING. SO WILL THE VICE MODERATOR MAKE 486 01:03:03,734 --> 01:03:07,733 THE APPROPRIATE MOTION WITH RESPECT TO THE RULES OF 487 01:03:07,734 --> 01:03:11,735 PROCEDURE. >> MOVED: THAT THE RULES OF 488 01:03:11,736 --> 01:03:13,736 PROCEDURE OF THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS SET FORTH IN FULL 489 01:03:16,734 --> 01:03:19,735 ON PAGES 92 THROUGH 94 OF THE FINAL 490 01:03:19,736 --> 01:03:22,734 AGENDA BE ADOPTED. >> IS THERE A SECOND? 491 01:03:25,734 --> 01:03:27,734 >> AUDIENCE MEMBER: SECOND. >> LOVELY. 492 01:03:28,734 --> 01:03:30,733 THAT ALWAYS WORKS WELL. DOES ANYONE WANT TO DISCUSS THE 493 01:03:30,734 --> 01:03:34,733 RULES? [LAUGHTER] 494 01:03:34,734 --> 01:03:38,736 THERE BEING NO TIME FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION OF THE RULES OF 495 01:03:38,737 --> 01:03:40,734 PROCEDURE, DISCUSSION IS NOW CLOSE ED AND A VOTE IS IN ORDER. 496 01:03:40,735 --> 01:03:43,734 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR AFTER ADOPTING THE RULES OF PROCEDURE 497 01:03:43,735 --> 01:03:45,734 PLEASE DO SO BY RAISING YOUR VOTING CARD. 498 01:03:45,735 --> 01:03:49,733 OH, LOVELY. WE GO HOW TO DO THIS. 499 01:03:49,734 --> 01:03:54,734 ALL OPPOSED. I THINK WE HAVE 23RDS 500 01:03:54,735 --> 01:03:56,733 23RDS BUT LET'S WAIT FOR THE OFFSITE 501 01:03:56,734 --> 01:03:58,734 DELEGATE TO SAY VOTE ON THESE RULES. 502 01:04:00,734 --> 01:04:02,735 THE MOTION CARRIES AND RULES OF PROCEDURE ADOPTED. 503 01:04:03,735 --> 01:04:05,735 [APPLAUSE] 504 01:04:10,736 --> 01:04:15,733 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPERB HELP HELP, MR. BEAN. 505 01:04:15,734 --> 01:04:18,733 BEFORE I INTRODUCE SOME IMPORTANT VOLUNTEERS ESSENTIAL 506 01:04:18,734 --> 01:04:21,734 TO THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY I WANT TO RECOGNIZE TWO SPECIAL GIFTS. 507 01:04:21,735 --> 01:04:23,735 THE HONORABLE CHERYL KENNEDY 508 01:04:26,735 --> 01:04:27,734 , COUNCIL WOMAN OF THE GRAND RON 509 01:04:27,735 --> 01:04:28,733 TRIBE EL COUNCIL IS IN THE HOUSE . 510 01:04:28,734 --> 01:04:30,734 WHERE MIGHT SHE BE? VERY 511 01:04:32,734 --> 01:04:35,734 GOOD. MISS KENNEDY IS A DESCENDENT -- 512 01:04:35,735 --> 01:04:38,735 [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. 513 01:04:38,736 --> 01:04:45,735 MISS KENNEDY IS A DEN DENT OF THE CHANUKEN PEOPLE FIRST NATION 514 01:04:45,736 --> 01:04:51,733 OF THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER WHERE WE ENJOY TONIGHT'S 515 01:04:51,734 --> 01:04:54,735 OCCASION. ALSO IS THE HONORABLE SAM 516 01:04:54,736 --> 01:04:56,736 ROBERTSON 517 01:04:59,736 --> 01:05:02,733 , VICE PRESIDENT OF THE CHANUKEN TRIBAL COUNCIL CAN YOU 518 01:05:02,734 --> 01:05:04,733 PLEASE STAND AND BE RECOGNIZE ED? 519 01:05:04,734 --> 01:05:07,733 [APPLAUSE] WE ARE PLEASE ED TO HAVE YOU 520 01:05:07,734 --> 01:05:09,734 BOTH WITH US. 521 01:05:12,735 --> 01:05:13,735 PLEASE WELCOME REV. JENNIFER BROOKS TO TELL US THE IMPORTANT 522 01:05:13,736 --> 01:05:15,736 WORK OF THE GA CHAPLAINS. 523 01:05:23,734 --> 01:05:30,734 [APPLAUSE] >> PORTLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY 524 01:05:30,735 --> 01:05:32,734 WARM GREETING FROM YOUR CHAP LIENS. 525 01:05:32,735 --> 01:05:35,734 I'M JENNIFER BROOKS AND THIS YEAR AT GA I'M THE LEAD CHAPLAIN 526 01:05:35,735 --> 01:05:40,735 FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY. AND THIS IS THE GA CHAPLAIN TEAM 527 01:05:40,736 --> 01:05:43,735 . NOW, THERE ARE MANY CHAPLAINS 528 01:05:44,735 --> 01:05:49,734 SERVING DIFFERENT GROUPS OF OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. 529 01:05:50,735 --> 01:05:52,734 LET ME TELL YOU WHAT MAKES THE G A 530 01:05:52,735 --> 01:05:54,735 CHAPLAIN TEAM UNIQUE. WE'RE THE CHAPLAINS THAT HAVE 531 01:05:55,734 --> 01:05:58,735 BEEN CHOSEN BY THE GA PLANNING COMMITTEE TO BE AVAILABLE TO 532 01:05:58,736 --> 01:06:04,733 EVERYONE ON A 24/7 BASIS. ALL OF OUR CHAPLAINS ARE UU 533 01:06:04,734 --> 01:06:09,733 MINISTERS AND WE COME FROM A DIVERSITY THAT WE HOPE REFLECTS 534 01:06:09,734 --> 01:06:13,734 THE BEAUTY OF THIS GATHERING. YOUR G.A. CHAPLAINS OFFER 535 01:06:15,733 --> 01:06:17,733 SUPPORT IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. 536 01:06:17,734 --> 01:06:20,733 WE'LL HAVE MORNING DEVOTIONAL PRACTICES IN THE MEDITATION 537 01:06:20,734 --> 01:06:23,734 ROOM, CONFERENCE CENTER ROOM, D D- 538 01:06:24,734 --> 01:06:26,733 131. THAT IS ALSO A GREAT PLACE TO 539 01:06:26,734 --> 01:06:31,734 GIVE YOURSELF AN IMPORTANT BREAK OF SILENCE FOR MEDITATION 540 01:06:32,735 --> 01:06:33,735 541 01:06:33,736 --> 01:06:38,733 DURING THESE LONG DAYS AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 542 01:06:38,734 --> 01:06:41,733 AND IF YOU'RE IN NEED OF SPIRITUAL SUPPORT OR PASTORAL 543 01:06:41,734 --> 01:06:46,733 CARE,EVER DAY THERE ARE DROP-IN HOURS AT THE CHAPLAIN'S OFFICE 544 01:06:46,734 --> 01:06:50,734 IN ROOM C-121. IF YOU NEED A CHAPLAIN OUTSIDE 545 01:06:52,734 --> 01:06:55,735 OF OFFICE HOURS OR THE OFFICE IS A LITTLE TOO FAR AWAY FOR YOU, 546 01:06:55,736 --> 01:06:58,734 IT'S OKAY JUST TO CALL THE CHAPLAIN PHONE. 547 01:06:58,735 --> 01:07:04,734 IT'S MONITORED 24/7 SO EVEN IF IT RINGS TO VOICE MAIL, LEAVE A 548 01:07:04,735 --> 01:07:08,734 MESSAGE AND ONE OF US WILL GET BACK TO YOU RIGHT AWAY. 549 01:07:09,734 --> 01:07:12,733 AS WITH LAST YEAR THE GA CHAPLAINS ARE WORKING CLOSELY 550 01:07:12,734 --> 01:07:15,733 WITH YOUR RIGHT RELATIONS TEAM. IN FACT, OUR OFFICES ARE RIGHT 551 01:07:15,734 --> 01:07:19,733 NEXT DOOR. WE KNOW THAT ARCH A BREACH OF 552 01:07:19,734 --> 01:07:25,733 RELATIONSHIP NEEDS BOTH AN INSTITUTIONAL AND A PASTORAL 553 01:07:25,734 --> 01:07:26,733 RESPONSE. WORKING WITH THE RIGHT 554 01:07:26,734 --> 01:07:31,733 RELATIONS TEAM, WE'LL SEEK TO MEET BOTH NEEDS. NOW I INVITE 555 01:07:31,734 --> 01:07:37,731 YOU TO SAY HELLO TO YOUR GENERAL ASSEMBLY CHAPLAINS: JAN 556 01:07:37,732 --> 01:07:41,732 CARLSSON-BULL.[APPLAUSE ] 557 01:07:41,733 --> 01:07:43,733 ALEX HOLT. 558 01:07:45,734 --> 01:07:47,735 REBEKAH MONTGOMERY. MARIA CRISTINA VLASSIDIS BURGOA. 559 01:07:50,736 --> 01:07:52,735 AND ANDREW WEBER. 560 01:07:52,736 --> 01:07:56,733 [APPLAUSE] ALL DURING GA, YOU'LL FIND US 561 01:07:56,734 --> 01:07:58,734 ROAMING THROUGHOUT THE CONVENTION CENTER. 562 01:07:59,734 --> 01:08:02,734 AND YOU'LL KNOW US BY OUR HATS. 563 01:08:02,735 --> 01:08:04,735 LOOK FOR THE BRIGHT GOLD UUA LOGO. 564 01:08:07,734 --> 01:08:09,734 AND EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT NEEDING TO 565 01:08:09,735 --> 01:08:13,731 TALK TO US, FEEL FREE TO PULL US SIDE TO SAY HELLO OR JUST DROP 566 01:08:13,732 --> 01:08:16,732 BY THE CHAPLAIN'S OFFICE. WE ARE HERE TO 567 01:08:19,733 --> 01:08:23,734 SERVE THIS BELOV BELOVED COMMUNITY. 568 01:08:24,733 --> 01:08:26,733 [APPLAUSE 569 01:08:27,734 --> 01:08:29,734 ] 570 01:08:31,735 --> 01:08:34,733 >> THANK YOU, JENNIFER. SO PLEASE WELCOME THE CO-CHAIRS 571 01:08:34,734 --> 01:08:36,734 OF YOUR 572 01:08:37,734 --> 01:08:43,733 2015 RIGHT RELATIONS TEAM, RAZIQ BROWN AND MR. BA ARB 573 01:08:43,734 --> 01:08:45,734 GREVE. 574 01:08:48,735 --> 01:08:50,735 >> HELLO. MY 575 01:08:53,734 --> 01:08:55,735 NAME IS RAZIQ BROWN, AND WE ARE YOUR RIGHT RELATIONSHIP TEAM 576 01:08:56,735 --> 01:09:01,732 COORDINATORS.ALONG WITH MR. RAZIQ BROWN HERE. 577 01:09:01,733 --> 01:09:06,733 I AM A PROUD TEXAN AND I CALL THE CONGREGATION MY HOME HOWEVER 578 01:09:06,734 --> 01:09:10,732 I HAVE JUST BEEN HIRE ED BY THE CENTRAL EASTERN REGION 579 01:09:10,733 --> 01:09:15,733 CONGREGATIONAL LIVE STAFF AS YOUNG ADULT COORDINATOR SO SOON 580 01:09:15,734 --> 01:09:18,734 I'M GOING TO BE BASED OUT OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. 581 01:09:19,734 --> 01:09:22,734 NOW, ENOUGH ABOUT ME. LET'S GET TO THE REAL STARS OF 582 01:09:22,735 --> 01:09:28,733 THIS PHENOMENAL TEAM. MR. BARB GRIV IS DIRECTOR OF 583 01:09:28,734 --> 01:09:33,734 LIFESPAN EDUCATION TO THE MOUNT DEABLO CHURCH IN WALNUT CREEK, 584 01:09:33,735 --> 01:09:36,732 CALIFORNIA. THE ACTING CHAIR OF THE STARR 585 01:09:36,733 --> 01:09:42,733 KING SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND TRANSGENDER 586 01:09:42,734 --> 01:09:43,733 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST TOGETHER 587 01:09:43,734 --> 01:09:48,731 TOGETHER. BECKY LEYSER, BECKY IS A THIRD 588 01:09:48,732 --> 01:09:51,732 YEAR SEMINARIAN AT STARR KING SCHOOL FOR THE MINISTRY. 589 01:09:51,733 --> 01:09:57,734 BECKY IS STARTING AN INTERNSHIP THIS FALL AT UUA CHURCH IN LIVER 590 01:09:57,735 --> 01:10:04,733 MOORE, CALIFORNIA. BEN GABEL SERVES AS OFFICE 591 01:10:04,734 --> 01:10:07,735 ADMINISTRATOR AT UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH IN MICHIGAN 592 01:10:08,734 --> 01:10:10,733 AND CO-CHAIR FOR WHOLENESS TRANSFORMATION COMMITTEE AS WELL 593 01:10:10,734 --> 01:10:13,735 AS A STUDENT AT MEADVILLE 594 01:10:19,735 --> 01:10:19,735 LUMBAR THEOLOGY SCHOOL. 595 01:10:19,735 --> 01:10:24,733 COLEEN MURRAY.IS OUR CAUCUS CHAPLAIN. 596 01:10:24,734 --> 01:10:28,733 ELIZABETH MOUNT.IS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY OF 597 01:10:29,733 --> 01:10:32,734 DENVER, SEMINARIAN AT THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL AND JOINING 598 01:10:33,734 --> 01:10:37,735 JOURNEY TOWARDS WHOLENESS TRANSFORMATION COMMITTEE. 599 01:10:38,734 --> 01:10:44,734 HANNA ROBERTSVILLE NAVE IS FELLOW AND STUDENT AT WESLEY 600 01:10:44,735 --> 01:10:46,733 THEOLOGICAL STUDENT IN WASHINGTON, D.C. LIVES IN 601 01:10:46,734 --> 01:10:50,732 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, MOVING TO ANNAPOLIS MARYLAND THIS AUGUST 602 01:10:50,733 --> 01:10:55,734 TO SERVE AS MIN STARE 81 CHURCH OF ANNAPOLIS. 603 01:10:57,734 --> 01:11:02,733 HOPE LOBE ATTENDS SOCIETY IN DENVER AND A CHAPLAIN ON THIS 604 01:11:02,734 --> 01:11:05,733 YEAR GA CAUCUS STAFF AS WELL. YEAH. 605 01:11:07,733 --> 01:11:11,733 KRISTIN FAMULA.LIVES IN CALIFORNIA AND SERVES THE UU 606 01:11:11,734 --> 01:11:15,733 FELLOWSHIP OF NORTHERN NEVADA IN RENO AS DIRECTOR AND COORDINATOR 607 01:11:15,734 --> 01:11:19,734 OF CREATE MEANING NORTHERN NEVADA AS WELL AS SERVING AS A 608 01:11:19,735 --> 01:11:24,732 PROGRAM LEADER FOR THE UU COLLEGE OF SOCIAL JUT JUSTICE 609 01:11:24,733 --> 01:11:26,733 AND PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY. 610 01:11:27,734 --> 01:11:32,732 LISA BOVEE-KEMPER.IS AN ASSOCIATE MINISTER AT THE 611 01:11:32,733 --> 01:11:34,733 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF NASHVILLE AND 612 01:11:35,733 --> 01:11:38,731 CO-FOUNDER OF THE JLC INITIATIVE WHICH SEEKS TO BRING ADVANCE 613 01:11:38,732 --> 01:11:43,732 CARE PLANNING, EDUCATION AND ACCESS TO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 614 01:11:43,733 --> 01:11:45,733 . 615 01:11:46,734 --> 01:11:50,733 PHOEBE MASTERSON ECKHART.IS A STUDENT AT THE CONNECTICUT 616 01:11:50,734 --> 01:11:54,732 COLLEGE AND MEMBER OF THE FIRST UNITARIAN COLLEGE OF 617 01:11:54,733 --> 01:11:56,733 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 618 01:12:02,736 --> 01:12:05,734 STEVEN BALLESTEROS.MEMBERS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND CHURCH OF 619 01:12:06,733 --> 01:12:08,733 TUCSON AND NOMINEE OF THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION FOR 620 01:12:08,734 --> 01:12:16,732 THE UUA NOMINATING COMMITTEE. TESSIE MANDEVILLE.IS A DUALLY 621 01:12:16,733 --> 01:12:19,733 ORDAINED CREDENTIALED WITH METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCHES 622 01:12:19,734 --> 01:12:25,732 AND THE UUA AND IS A PALLIATIVE CARE CHAPLAIN AT A LOCAL 623 01:12:25,733 --> 01:12:27,733 HOSPITAL IN WELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON. 624 01:12:27,734 --> 01:12:29,734 SERVING AS 625 01:12:31,733 --> 01:12:33,733 MINISTER SOON. 626 01:12:34,733 --> 01:12:38,733 AND TOMOKO TAKANO.IS A GRADUATE NURSING STUDENT AND FINISHED HER 627 01:12:38,734 --> 01:12:41,733 RN PROGRAM IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA FORE. 628 01:12:41,734 --> 01:12:45,733 TOMOKO IS NOT ATTACHED TO BRICK AND MORTAR CONGREGATION BUT THE 629 01:12:45,734 --> 01:12:52,746 CHURCH OF A LARGE ER FELLOWSHIP. [APPLAUSE] NOW, IF YOU NEED US, 630 01:12:53,734 --> 01:12:55,733 YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE RIGHT RELATIONSHIP TEAM MEMBERS BY 631 01:12:55,734 --> 01:13:00,733 THEIR ORANGE ACCESSORY IES, TEAM SHOW AT ASSEMBLY YOUR BLING. 632 01:13:00,734 --> 01:13:02,733 ALL RIGHT. GREAT. 633 01:13:02,734 --> 01:13:05,733 TOMORROW, WE'LL BE BACK HERE AND WE'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT WHAT 634 01:13:05,734 --> 01:13:08,734 WE DO. UNTIL THEN REMEMBER THIS SIMPLE 635 01:13:08,735 --> 01:13:09,734 PHRASE. IF YOU WANT TO TALK BILLION 636 01:13:09,735 --> 01:13:12,734 RESOLVING CONFLICT, CALL US. IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW 637 01:13:12,735 --> 01:13:14,735 YOU FEEL, CALL A CHAPLAIN. THEY'RE GREAT. 638 01:13:16,733 --> 01:13:20,733 [LAUGHTER] OUR NUMBER IS FOUND ON PAGE 639 01:13:20,734 --> 01:13:23,732 PAGE 7 OF YOUR HANDY BOOK. GIVE ONE MORE ROUND OF APPLAUSE 640 01:13:23,733 --> 01:13:27,734 TO YOUR FABULOUS 2015 GENERAL ASSEMBLY RIGHT RELATIONSHIP TEAM 641 01:13:28,735 --> 01:13:32,734 . [APPLAUSE] 642 01:13:45,734 --> 01:13:48,733 >> THANKS RAZIQ AND THE TEAM. I'M PLEASE 643 01:13:51,734 --> 01:13:53,734 ED TO WELCOME PREDECESSORS GARNER TAKAHASHI 644 01:13:54,734 --> 01:13:55,734 FOR THE CAUCUS OF THIS GENERAL 645 01:13:55,735 --> 01:13:57,735 ASSEMBLY. 646 01:14:00,734 --> 01:14:05,734 >> HELLO, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS ANDREA BRISCOE AND 647 01:14:05,735 --> 01:14:07,735 I'M FROM MAINLINE 648 01:14:09,735 --> 01:14:11,734 UNIVERSITY IN PENNSYLVANIA. 649 01:14:11,735 --> 01:14:15,733 >> I'M OLIVIA AND I'M FROM CA NO 650 01:14:15,734 --> 01:14:19,735 CANOGA PARK, CALIFORNIA. WE ARE THE CO-YOUTH CAUCUS TEAMS 651 01:14:20,734 --> 01:14:25,732 OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2015. THERE ARE OVER 300 YOUTH AT GA 652 01:14:25,733 --> 01:14:27,733 THIS YEAR. 653 01:14:33,735 --> 01:14:36,733 WE CANNOT BE HAPPY IER SHARING OUR FAITH WITH YOU TO BUILD A 654 01:14:36,734 --> 01:14:39,733 NEW WAY TOWARDS THE FUTURE. WE WOULD LIKE TO FORMALLY INVITE 655 01:14:39,734 --> 01:14:45,734 EVERYONE OF ALL AGES TO SHARE SPACE IN ROOM A 105 AND 106 OF 656 01:14:45,735 --> 01:14:47,734 THE CONVENTION CENTER. WE'LL BE HOSTING WORKSHOPS AND 657 01:14:47,735 --> 01:14:50,734 WORSHIPS ALL WEEK THAT YOU CAN FIND IN YOUR PROGRAM BOOK. 658 01:14:50,735 --> 01:14:53,734 WHEN WE SAY ALL AGES WE REALLY O MEAN IT. 659 01:14:53,735 --> 01:14:55,735 WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE EVERY ONE OF YOU SHARE OUR SPACE 660 01:14:55,736 --> 01:15:01,733 THROUGHOUT GA. WORKING WITH US TO CREATE INNER 661 01:15:01,734 --> 01:15:05,734 GENERATIONAL CONNECTIONS. YOUTH CAUCUS STAFF WILL WEAR 662 01:15:05,735 --> 01:15:08,734 PINK BAN DANS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AND COME AND TALK TO US IF 663 01:15:08,735 --> 01:15:10,733 YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR IF YOU WANT TO TALK WE LOVE DOING THAT, 664 01:15:10,734 --> 01:15:13,733 TOO. LAST FALL WHEN ANDREA AND I 665 01:15:13,734 --> 01:15:15,734 BEGAN PLANNING FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY WE CREATED A VISION 666 01:15:15,735 --> 01:15:17,735 STATEMENT THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU BECAUSE IT HELPS 667 01:15:18,736 --> 01:15:20,735 TO GUIDE US THROUGH THE PLANNING PROCESS. 668 01:15:20,736 --> 01:15:24,734 WE ENVISION GA 2015 AS A SPIRITUAL GATHERING AND 669 01:15:24,735 --> 01:15:26,734 COLLABORATION OF A MULTI-GENERATIONAL COMMUNITY 670 01:15:26,735 --> 01:15:29,735 FOCUSED ON RECONNECTING TO OUR VALUES AND SEVEN PRINCIPLES. 671 01:15:30,734 --> 01:15:33,735 WE ENVISION A PLACE WHERE WE STRIVE TO ADOPT OUR TRADITIONS 672 01:15:33,736 --> 01:15:36,734 TO FIT THE GROWING AND DIVERSE SOCIETY OF WHICH WE ARE A PART. 673 01:15:36,735 --> 01:15:40,733 WE HOPE THIS VISION STATEMENT HELPS YOU RECONNECT TO OUR 674 01:15:40,734 --> 01:15:42,734 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST VALUES, REACH OUT ACROSS GENERATIONS AND 675 01:15:42,735 --> 01:15:46,735 TRY SOMETHING NEW. WE'RE SO EXCITED TO BE A 676 01:15:46,736 --> 01:15:48,734 PREFERENCE IN THIS COMMUNITY AND HOPE YOU JOIN US IN CELEBRATING 677 01:15:48,735 --> 01:15:51,734 OUR FAITH. SHOULD. 678 01:15:57,735 --> 01:16:04,733 >> THANK YOU ANDREA AND OLIVIA. WELCOME REVEREND JONATHAN ROD 679 01:16:04,734 --> 01:16:06,734 RODGERS AND AY 680 01:16:07,734 --> 01:16:09,734 LA HALBERSTADT, THE CO-FACILITATORS OF YOUNG ADULTS 681 01:16:09,735 --> 01:16:11,735 682 01:16:12,735 --> 01:16:14,735 >> HELLO GA, I'M REV. JONATHAN ROGERS FROM THE UU CONGREGATION 683 01:16:15,733 --> 01:16:17,733 684 01:16:20,734 --> 01:16:24,733 >> AND I'M AYLA HALBERSTADT FROM THE UU FELLOWSHIP OF 685 01:16:24,734 --> 01:16:26,734 CENTRAL OREGON, AND WE ARE THE 686 01:16:27,736 --> 01:16:29,734 687 01:16:29,735 --> 01:16:31,735 ADULTS @ GENERAL ASSEMBLY GROUP, NOW BRANDED AS YA@GA. 688 01:16:34,735 --> 01:16:36,734 >> WE COULD NOT BE MORE PLEASED TO BE 689 01:16:36,735 --> 01:16:38,735 Y'ALL'S CO-CONSPIRATORS IN BUILDING A NEW WAY! 690 01:16:41,734 --> 01:16:43,734 YOU CAN IDENTIFY US AND OTHER 691 01:16:44,735 --> 01:16:45,735 YA@GA STAFF THROUGHOUT THE WEEK BY 692 01:16:45,736 --> 01:16:50,734 LOOKING FOR THESE BLUE BANDANAS THAT WE WILL ALL BE WEARING. YOU 693 01:16:50,735 --> 01:16:52,735 CAN ALSO FIND US BY COMING 694 01:16:55,735 --> 01:16:57,733 -- HELP BUILD COMMUNITY WITH US BY 695 01:16:57,734 --> 01:17:03,733 COMING TO ROOM A 107 AND 108 HOSTING PROGRAMMING, WORSHIP AND 696 01:17:03,734 --> 01:17:05,734 COMMUNITY BUILDING SESSIONS ALL 697 01:17:07,734 --> 01:17:07,734 WEEK. >> WE WOULD LIKE TO CALL YOUR 698 01:17:07,734 --> 01:17:10,735 ATTENTION PARTICULARLY TO THE YA@GA GA TALKS THAT WILL BE 699 01:17:10,736 --> 01:17:14,734 TAKING PLACE DURING PROGRAMMING SLOTS AND GENERAL SESSION. THESE 700 01:17:14,735 --> 01:17:16,734 DYNAMIC AND ENGAGING PRESENTATIONS REPRESENT 701 01:17:16,735 --> 01:17:18,735 INNOVATIVE MINISTRIES AND 702 01:17:23,735 --> 01:17:25,735 703 01:17:26,735 --> 01:17:27,734 COMMUNITY. THEY ARE WHAT BUILDING A NEW 704 01:17:27,735 --> 01:17:29,734 WAY LOOKS LIKE. >> YA@GA WILL CONTINUE TO COLLABORATIVELY SEEK 705 01:17:29,735 --> 01:17:32,734 OUT AND PROMOTE INNOVATIVE AND INSPIRING MINISTRIES IN THE 706 01:17:32,735 --> 01:17:34,735 YEARS TO COME. 707 01:17:35,736 --> 01:17:39,734 TO PARAPHRASE GA TALKS PRESENTER CHRIS CRASS: WE 708 01:17:39,735 --> 01:17:42,734 BELIEVE IN COLLECTIVE LIBERATION, AND WE BELIEVE IN 709 01:17:42,735 --> 01:17:44,735 OUR ABILITY TO WIN. THANK YOU! 710 01:17:46,735 --> 01:17:48,735 [APPLAUSE] 711 01:17:52,743 --> 01:17:56,734 >> AYLA AND JONATHAN, THANK YOU. THE GA PLANNING COMMITTEE AND 712 01:17:56,735 --> 01:17:58,734 PATTY CAMERON HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB OVER THE YEARS AT MAKING GA 713 01:17:58,735 --> 01:18:02,732 MORE AND MORE ACCESSIBLE TO MORE AND MORE PEOPLE. PLEASE WELCOME 714 01:18:02,733 --> 01:18:05,734 PATTY CAMERON, WHO IS HERE TO TELL US ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY 715 01:18:05,735 --> 01:18:07,735 SERVICES AT THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 716 01:18:08,735 --> 01:18:10,735 [APPLAUSE] 717 01:18:13,735 --> 01:18:15,735 >> COME, COME, WHOEVER YOU ARE; 718 01:18:16,735 --> 01:18:18,735 719 01:18:18,736 --> 01:18:20,736 YOU'VE SUNG THIS IN 720 01:18:24,736 --> 01:18:26,736 -- SUNG THOSE SONGS IN YOUR CONGREGATION. 721 01:18:27,736 --> 01:18:28,736 HERE AT GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IT'S OUR COLLECTIVE ROLE TO WELCOME 722 01:18:28,737 --> 01:18:30,737 ALL! IT IS OUR COLLECTIVE ROLE TO 723 01:18:32,738 --> 01:18:34,736 724 01:18:34,737 --> 01:18:39,733 ORDER TO BUILD A BELOVEDBUILD AND SUSTAIN A BELOVED COMMUNITY. 725 01:18:39,734 --> 01:18:42,734 A COMMUNITY THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE. 726 01:18:42,735 --> 01:18:47,735 THOSE WHO USE MOBILITY EQUIPMENT, LISTENING DEVICES, 727 01:18:48,735 --> 01:18:52,734 INTERPRETERS, HAVE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY IES, ASSIST DOGS OR 728 01:18:52,735 --> 01:18:57,735 NEED SPECIAL SEATING TO ACCOMMODATE VISION AND HEARING. 729 01:18:57,736 --> 01:19:01,733 MY NAME IS PATTY CAMERON AND IT'S MY PLEASURE TO COORDINATE 730 01:19:01,734 --> 01:19:04,733 ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY. OUR SERVICES 731 01:19:04,734 --> 01:19:07,734 ARE AVAILABLE TO ANYONE REGISTERED HERE AT GENERAL 732 01:19:07,735 --> 01:19:09,735 ASSEMBLY, AND OUR GOAL 733 01:19:10,736 --> 01:19:11,734 IS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE THAT ALLOWS 734 01:19:11,735 --> 01:19:13,735 EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN GA. 735 01:19:20,735 --> 01:19:22,733 WHILE YOU'RE HERE, PLEASE PAY 736 01:19:22,734 --> 01:19:24,734 PARTICULAR ATTENTION AS WE PASS ALONG THE HALLS. 737 01:19:24,735 --> 01:19:28,737 NAVIGATE THE PUBLIC WITNESS EVENT AND ATTEND WORKSHOPS 738 01:19:28,738 --> 01:19:32,737 TOGETHER. MOVE ALONG IN THE HALLWAYS 739 01:19:32,738 --> 01:19:39,736 REMEMBERING THAT PEOPLE USING SCOOTERS, SCOOTERS HAVE NO 740 01:19:39,737 --> 01:19:43,737 BRAKES. PLEASE DON'T STOP SUDDENLY. 741 01:19:44,738 --> 01:19:49,738 TO CHAT BECAUSE THE PERSON BEHIND YOU USING A SCOOTER IS UN 742 01:19:50,738 --> 01:19:55,737 ABLE TO STOP SUDDENLY. PLEASE RESERVE ELEVATORS FOR 743 01:19:55,738 --> 01:19:57,738 PEOPLE WITH 744 01:19:59,738 --> 01:20:00,737 MOBILITY OR HEALTH NEEDS. 745 01:20:00,738 --> 01:20:04,736 WE HAVE CREATED A PATH FOR PEOPLE USING MOBILITY DEVICES 746 01:20:04,737 --> 01:20:12,736 WHICH ALLOWS ONE LEVEL ACCESS FROM THE EXHIBIT AREA AND THE 747 01:20:12,737 --> 01:20:15,737 HALLWAY OUTSIDE WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE DRAGON BOAT LOBBY. 748 01:20:15,738 --> 01:20:19,738 THROUGH THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ROOM -- GENERAL SESSION ROOM. 749 01:20:19,739 --> 01:20:24,736 SORRY. OUT TO THE GINKO BERRY LOBBY SO 750 01:20:24,737 --> 01:20:26,737 THEY CAN ACCESS 751 01:20:28,738 --> 01:20:28,738 THE STREET LEVEL. 752 01:20:28,738 --> 01:20:32,738 THERE ARE SIGNAGE AND USHERS CAN SHOW YOU AND HELP DIRECT YOU ON 753 01:20:33,739 --> 01:20:35,740 THIS PATH. THIS PATH IS AVAILABLE DURING 754 01:20:36,738 --> 01:20:38,738 ALL GA PROGRAM HOURS. 755 01:20:42,738 --> 01:20:46,737 LET THIS EXPERIENCE BE A TEACHING OPPORTUNITY. 756 01:20:46,738 --> 01:20:50,738 I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE NOTICE OF ALL THE ACCOMMODATIONS AVAILABLE 757 01:20:51,738 --> 01:20:56,737 AND BRING THESE IDEAS BACK TO YOUR HOME CONGREGATIONS AND 758 01:20:56,738 --> 01:21:01,737 BECOME MORE WELCOME ING INCLUSIVE 759 01:21:01,738 --> 01:21:04,738 COMMUNITIES. I INVITE YOU TO BE WITH ONE 760 01:21:04,739 --> 01:21:06,739 ANOTHER THIS WEEK IN WAYS THAT ALLOW YOU TO PRACTICE RADICAL 761 01:21:08,739 --> 01:21:10,737 762 01:21:10,738 --> 01:21:12,738 COMFORT ZONE, ENRICH YOUR 763 01:21:15,739 --> 01:21:17,737 764 01:21:17,738 --> 01:21:22,737 OR A LOT AND WIDEN YOUR FIELD AS YOU TAKE IN ALL THOSE AROUND YOU 765 01:21:22,738 --> 01:21:24,738 WHETHER THEY WALK OR RIDE. 766 01:21:27,738 --> 01:21:29,738 WE ARE ALL PART OF THIS GENERAL 767 01:21:31,738 --> 01:21:32,737 768 01:21:32,738 --> 01:21:37,737 - A BRIGHT, WONDERFUL COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE OF ALL ABILITIES. BE 769 01:21:37,738 --> 01:21:39,739 WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVE. THANK YOU! 770 01:21:43,738 --> 01:21:50,737 [APPLAUSE] >> THANKS, PATTY, AND I ECHO 771 01:21:50,738 --> 01:21:52,738 HER CALL TO TAKE THIS NOTION OF 772 01:21:54,737 --> 01:21:56,737 FULL 773 01:21:57,738 --> 01:21:59,739 ACCIDENT SETSABILITY AND RADICAL ACCESSIBILITY BACK TO 774 01:22:00,738 --> 01:22:02,738 YOUR CONGREGATIONS. THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS 775 01:22:03,738 --> 01:22:03,738 776 01:22:03,738 --> 01:22:04,737 ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCHEDULE SET FORTH IN YOUR PROGRAM BOOK, I 777 01:22:04,738 --> 01:22:06,738 DECLARE THAT THIS GENERAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 778 01:22:06,739 --> 01:22:08,739 SHALL STAND IN RECESS UNTIL 8:15 AM ON THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2015. 779 01:22:12,738 --> 01:22:14,740 PLEASE NOTE TOMORROW'S SESSION WILL 780 01:22:15,738 --> 01:22:17,740 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE MORNING DEVOTIONAL AT 8:00 A.M. 781 01:22:21,739 --> 01:22:26,737 NOW WE MOVE INTO A PERIOD OF REFLECTION, WORSHIP AND 782 01:22:26,738 --> 01:22:33,738 CELEBRATION. WE INVITE KATIE SYKES, A YOUTH 783 01:22:33,739 --> 01:22:35,739 FROM THE 784 01:22:36,739 --> 01:22:38,739 SIERRA FOOTHILLS OF CALIFORNIA AND NATHAN FRASER, A YOUTH FROM 785 01:22:38,740 --> 01:22:38,740 786 01:22:38,740 --> 01:22:39,739 FORWARD TO LIGHT OUR CHALICE. THIS IS THEIR FIRST GENERAL 787 01:22:39,740 --> 01:22:41,740 ASSEMBLY. 788 01:22:42,740 --> 01:22:44,740 [APPLAUSE] 789 01:22:52,739 --> 01:22:53,737 >> WE KINDLE THIS FLAME: THE CUP HOLDING US IN COMMUNITY; THE 790 01:22:53,738 --> 01:22:55,738 FUEL, ALL POSSIBILITIES; 791 01:22:56,739 --> 01:22:58,738 THE SPARK OF INSPIRATION; THE SPACE 792 01:22:58,739 --> 01:23:00,739 SURROUNDING THE FLAME-OUR 793 01:23:01,739 --> 01:23:02,739 794 01:23:02,740 --> 01:23:04,740 HEALING AND TRANSFORMATIVE LOVE. 795 01:23:33,739 --> 01:23:36,738 [APPLAUSE] 796 01:23:39,739 --> 01:23:43,737 >> THESE WORDS COME TO US FROM THE LATE REV. NANCY SHAFFER IN 797 01:23:43,738 --> 01:23:45,738 HER POEM WITNESS. 798 01:23:48,739 --> 01:23:50,739 TO THAT PLACE BEFORE WORDS KNOW 799 01:23:51,739 --> 01:23:53,736 HOW TO SAY THEMSELVES OR THOUGHTS HAVE AN 800 01:23:53,737 --> 01:23:55,739 INKLING THEY WILL BE BORN 801 01:23:59,739 --> 01:24:00,737 TO THAT QUIET PLACE WHERE THE HOLY 802 01:24:00,738 --> 01:24:02,738 DWELLS- THAT PLACE BEFORE KNOWING, 803 01:24:07,738 --> 01:24:09,738 804 01:24:10,738 --> 01:24:12,738 WHERE TEARS CANNOT STOP--CAN FIND NO 805 01:24:12,739 --> 01:24:14,739 ENDING--AND CRYING-OUT FILLS THE SKY 806 01:24:16,739 --> 01:24:20,737 ALSO TO THAT PLACE WHERE THE EARTH FIRST TURNS, AND--TURNING 807 01:24:20,738 --> 01:24:23,737 --TURNS TO BOUNTY, AND WE STUMBLE UPON HOPE 808 01:24:27,737 --> 01:24:29,737 OUT OF LOVE, OUT OF LONGING, YOU COME. 809 01:24:37,737 --> 01:24:39,736 WE COME THIS WEEK FROM ANOTHER PLACE 810 01:24:39,737 --> 01:24:41,737 WHERE TEARS CANNOT STOP THE MURDER OF 811 01:24:44,739 --> 01:24:47,737 NINE BLACK PEOPLE IN CHARLESTON LAST WEEK WEIGHS 812 01:24:47,738 --> 01:24:50,738 HEAVILY UPON US. WE MUST REMIND ONE ANOTHER IN A 813 01:24:50,739 --> 01:24:57,737 WORLD OF FEAR, IGNORANCE AND ANGER BECOME A RACIAL HATRED 814 01:24:57,738 --> 01:25:02,736 THAT KILLS. IN SUCH A WORLD LOVE MATTERS. 815 01:25:02,737 --> 01:25:06,738 WE MATTER. LET US SHARE A MOMENT OF SILENCE 816 01:25:06,739 --> 01:25:09,738 IN MEMORY OF THOSE KILLED IN CHARLESTON. 817 01:25:09,739 --> 01:25:14,738 AND IN OUR SILENCE, LET US RE REDEDICATE OURSELVES TO STANDING 818 01:25:15,738 --> 01:25:21,737 ON THE SIDE OF LOVE. [MOMENT OF SILENCE] 819 01:26:55,739 --> 01:26:58,738 >> HERE THESE WORDS FROM THE REVEREND DANNY REED, MINISTER 820 01:26:58,739 --> 01:27:04,738 CHURCH IN CHARLESTON. WE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. 821 01:27:05,739 --> 01:27:10,738 CHARLESTON WILL BARE THE SCARS OF THE ASSAULT ON MOTHER EMA 822 01:27:10,739 --> 01:27:12,737 EMANUEL CHURCH YET WE WILL NOT BE DEFEATED. 823 01:27:12,738 --> 01:27:17,738 THE WORK OF JUSTICE IS NEVER ENDING AND COMMITMENT TO THE 824 01:27:17,739 --> 01:27:19,738 BELOVED COMMUNITY IS EVER NEED 825 01:27:19,739 --> 01:27:21,739 NEEDED. LOVE WILL PREVAIL. 826 01:27:35,739 --> 01:27:37,736 >> WE HAVE GATHERED FROM NEAR AND FAR, BRINGING WITH US A 827 01:27:37,737 --> 01:27:41,736 VARIETY OF BEAUTIFUL, SOMETIMES PAINFUL, AND COMPLICATED 828 01:27:41,737 --> 01:27:43,737 HISTORIES. 829 01:27:44,738 --> 01:27:46,738 WE ACKNOWLEDGE AND HONOUR THE 830 01:27:47,739 --> 01:27:49,739 831 01:27:51,739 --> 01:27:53,736 832 01:27:53,737 --> 01:27:55,737 HAVE CREATED NEW WAYS OF BEING 833 01:27:56,739 --> 01:27:59,737 834 01:27:59,738 --> 01:28:01,738 THOSE WHO HAD DREAMS THAT WERE NOT FULLY REALIZED. 835 01:28:06,737 --> 01:28:07,738 >> WE HONOUR THE BEAUTIFUL, POWERFUL, AND 836 01:28:07,739 --> 01:28:12,736 VULNERABLE EARTH, WITH EACH INCREDIBLE ECOSYSTEM AND THE 837 01:28:12,737 --> 01:28:16,738 MAGICAL PLACES IN-BETWEEN. WE GIVE THANKS FOR THE EARTH, AND 838 01:28:16,739 --> 01:28:18,739 THE MILLIONS OF SPECIES WITH WHOM WE SHARE LIFE. 839 01:28:24,738 --> 01:28:26,737 >> THIS YEAR OUR ASSEMBLY HAS GATHERED IN THE 840 01:28:26,738 --> 01:28:28,738 PACIFIC 841 01:28:29,738 --> 01:28:32,737 IN WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE CITY OF 842 01:28:32,738 --> 01:28:34,737 PORTLAND. THIS CONVENTION CENTER WHERE 843 01:28:34,738 --> 01:28:38,737 WE'LL DO OUR WORK THIS WEEK RESIDES NEXT TO THE MAGANY OF 844 01:28:38,738 --> 01:28:45,736 OFENT LAMENT RIVER ORIGINALLY CALLED THE MILTNOMAH, KATHLAMET, 845 01:28:45,737 --> 01:28:48,737 CLACKAMAS, CHINOOK, TUALATIN KALAPUYA, MOLALLA AND ALL THE 846 01:28:48,738 --> 01:28:51,738 OTHER PEOPLES KNOWN AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE AND HONOUR ALL THESE 847 01:28:51,739 --> 01:28:53,739 FIRST NATIONS PEOPLE AND 848 01:28:55,740 --> 01:28:57,740 -- PEOPLE OF THIS LAND. 849 01:29:05,737 --> 01:29:08,736 >> WE HONOUR OUR THE( )LOGICAL ANCESTORS, WHO PROCLAIMED THE 850 01:29:08,737 --> 01:29:10,737 UNIVERSAL LOVE AND UNITY OF THE 851 01:29:14,738 --> 01:29:15,736 852 01:29:15,737 --> 01:29:17,737 CAPACITY OF HUMANITY, AND WHO 853 01:29:20,737 --> 01:29:21,736 854 01:29:21,737 --> 01:29:23,737 MYSTERY OF LIFE. 855 01:29:29,737 --> 01:29:31,737 >> WE HONOUR THE MULTIPLICITY OF CULTURAL 856 01:29:31,738 --> 01:29:33,738 HERITAGES OF THOSE 857 01:29:36,737 --> 01:29:38,738 GATHERED HERE AND HAVE BEEN A PART OF THE 858 01:29:38,739 --> 01:29:43,737 UNIVERSITYIST, UNITARIAN AND UNITARIAN AND UNIVERSALIST 859 01:29:43,738 --> 01:29:45,738 TRADITIONS. OUR ANCESTORS OF FAMILY, OF 860 01:29:45,739 --> 01:29:50,737 PLACE AND OF OUR COMMUNITIES. >> WE HONOUR THE ARTISTIC 861 01:29:50,738 --> 01:29:52,738 LEADERS OF MANY PLACES AND 862 01:29:53,738 --> 01:29:55,737 863 01:29:55,738 --> 01:29:57,739 WISDOM, CREATIVITY, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION. 864 01:29:59,739 --> 01:30:01,736 865 01:30:01,737 --> 01:30:05,736 RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF VARIOUS FAITHS WHO'VE INSPIRED FAITHFUL 866 01:30:05,737 --> 01:30:07,737 ACTS OF PEACE AND JUSTICE. 867 01:30:11,737 --> 01:30:12,737 >> WE HONOUR THOSE ANCESTORS WHO FOUND 868 01:30:12,738 --> 01:30:14,738 THEMSELVES ON THE 869 01:30:16,737 --> 01:30:17,744 MARGINS WITHIN OUR FAITH COMMUNITIES, AS WELL 870 01:30:17,745 --> 01:30:20,737 AS THE WORLD AT LARGE, WHO DESERVED A SEAT AT THE TABLE, 871 01:30:20,738 --> 01:30:22,738 KNOWING THAT 872 01:30:25,739 --> 01:30:26,739 MANY WERE AND ARE STILL DENIED EQUAL ACCESS AND 873 01:30:26,740 --> 01:30:28,740 PARTICIPATION. 874 01:30:33,737 --> 01:30:37,737 >> WE HONOUR ALL OF THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO SHOW UP, EVEN WHEN 875 01:30:37,738 --> 01:30:40,737 BIAS IS EXPERIENCED AND MICRO OR MACRO-AGGRESSIONS OCCUR. 876 01:30:44,737 --> 01:30:45,737 IN OUR COMMUNITY. 877 01:30:45,738 --> 01:30:47,738 WE HONOUR THE COURAGE IT TAKES TO 878 01:30:47,739 --> 01:30:55,738 DO THE WORK OF DISMANTLING THE SYMPTOMS OF OPPRESSION IN WHICH 879 01:30:55,739 --> 01:30:56,738 WE HAVE ALL BEEN SCHOOLED. WE CAN BUILD BELOVED COMMUNITY 880 01:30:56,739 --> 01:31:01,736 THAT RESPECTS DIVERSITIES OF ABILITY, CLASS, RACE, AGE, 881 01:31:01,737 --> 01:31:05,737 EDUCATION, ETHNICITY, SEXUALITY, LANGUAGE, SIZE, GENDER IDENTITY 882 01:31:05,738 --> 01:31:09,738 AND EXPRESSION, MILITARY STATUS, AND FAMILY COMPOSITION. 883 01:31:14,738 --> 01:31:16,736 >> WE HONOUR THE CHILDREN, YOUTH, 884 01:31:16,737 --> 01:31:18,737 YOUNG ADULTS, ADULTS, 885 01:31:19,738 --> 01:31:20,738 OLDER ADULTS, AND ELDERS OF OUR PAST 886 01:31:20,739 --> 01:31:23,738 AND OUR PRESENT, WHO, OVER CENTURIES, MADE THE CHOICES AND 887 01:31:27,739 --> 01:31:29,739 888 01:31:31,738 --> 01:31:33,738 889 01:31:34,739 --> 01:31:36,737 890 01:31:36,738 --> 01:31:38,738 WHO ARE WILLING TO KEEP LEARNING AND GROWING. 891 01:31:44,737 --> 01:31:50,738 >> AS YOU BREATHE IN, CAN YOU FEEL THE ANCESTORS OF THIS PLACE 892 01:31:51,737 --> 01:31:55,737 ? THE ANCESTORS OF OUR FAITH? 893 01:31:55,738 --> 01:32:01,737 YOUR FAMILY OF BIRTH AND CHOICE? THE LEADERS OF VARYING 894 01:32:01,738 --> 01:32:03,738 IDENTITIES OF OUR COMMUNITIES? 895 01:32:05,737 --> 01:32:07,737 CAN YOU FEEL IT? 896 01:32:07,738 --> 01:32:09,738 CAN YOU FEEL THEM? 897 01:32:12,737 --> 01:32:14,737 IN A MOMENT, WE WILL INVITE THE 898 01:32:14,738 --> 01:32:16,738 BELL, CALLING US TO BE PRESENT IN THIS MOMENT. 899 01:32:18,738 --> 01:32:20,738 AS THE SOUND OF THE BELL FADES, YOU ARE THEN 900 01:32:20,739 --> 01:32:24,737 INVITED TO SPEAK THE NAMES OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE YOU TO 901 01:32:24,738 --> 01:32:26,738 BE YOUR FULL 902 01:32:29,739 --> 01:32:31,739 , YOUR BEST SELF. NAMING SPECIFICALLY WHO YOU WANT 903 01:32:32,739 --> 01:32:36,738 TO HONOR TONIGHT. THEY MIGHT BE LIVING OR NOT.OR 904 01:32:36,739 --> 01:32:39,738 LIVING ONLY IN YOUR MEMORY. IT IS FINE FOR SEVERAL PEOPLE TO 905 01:32:39,739 --> 01:32:42,737 SPEAK AT ONCE. IT IS OKAY TO SAY THE NAME SO 906 01:32:42,738 --> 01:32:47,737 SOFTLY THAT ONLY YOUR HEART OR THE DIVINE OF YOUR UNDERSTANDING 907 01:32:47,738 --> 01:32:50,737 CAN HEAR. AS THE BELL FADES, LET US CALL 908 01:32:50,738 --> 01:32:54,738 THOSE WITNESSES INTO THIS SPACE. 909 01:33:03,738 --> 01:33:06,737 [BELL] [BELL] [BELL] 910 01:33:49,738 --> 01:33:52,737 >> IN THE PRESENCE OF THE MEMORIES AND SPIRITS OF THESE 911 01:33:55,739 --> 01:33:57,739 912 01:33:57,740 --> 01:33:59,740 COMPANIONS WITH WHOM WE NOW 913 01:34:00,740 --> 01:34:02,740 914 01:34:08,741 --> 01:34:08,741 ON THIS PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS PLANET. 915 01:34:08,741 --> 01:34:13,739 AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, WE NOW INVOKE THE ENERGY THAT MOVES 916 01:34:13,740 --> 01:34:16,738 IN IN, AROUND AND THROUGH US THAT 917 01:34:18,739 --> 01:34:23,739 CALLS US TO BE OUR BEST SELF-S. LET US OPEN OUR HEARTS AND 918 01:34:23,740 --> 01:34:25,740 MINDS WITH GRATITUDE AND WONDER. 919 01:34:38,739 --> 01:34:40,738 >> AS WE GROUND IN THIS PLACE, AS 920 01:34:40,739 --> 01:34:45,737 NOW KNOWN AS PORTLAND BY MANY, WE HOLE THE COMPLEX TRUTH 921 01:34:45,738 --> 01:34:47,739 TRUTHS, THE BOTH AND. 922 01:34:48,738 --> 01:34:51,737 THERE IS SO MUCH BEAUTY, KIND 923 01:34:51,738 --> 01:34:57,740 KINDNESS, COMPASSION. AND THE URGE TO CARE FOR THIS 924 01:35:00,738 --> 01:35:02,738 EARTH. AND 925 01:35:04,738 --> 01:35:07,737 WE FACE ECOLOGICAL DISASTER, RAMPANT 926 01:35:07,738 --> 01:35:10,737 RACISM, THE LEGACY OF THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY THAT STILL 927 01:35:10,738 --> 01:35:12,738 DESTROYS PEOPLES AND NATIONS. 928 01:35:15,739 --> 01:35:16,737 929 01:35:16,738 --> 01:35:18,738 ONE OF THE LOVELIEST PEOPLE 930 01:35:19,739 --> 01:35:25,737 I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE TO MEET: 931 01:35:25,738 --> 01:35:27,739 JOYCE POLEY. JOYCE LET ME KNOW THAT SHE WROTE THIS SONG, 932 01:35:27,740 --> 01:35:29,737 KEEPERS OF THE EARTH, TO "EXPRESS HER GRATITUDE FOR ALL 933 01:35:29,738 --> 01:35:31,738 THAT NATURE GIVES US, NOT ONLY AS A RESOURCE, BUT AS A MEANS OF 934 01:35:33,739 --> 01:35:35,738 935 01:35:35,739 --> 01:35:39,737 TINY PLANET IS OUR SACRED HOME" SHE SAYS," AND WE ARE CALLED TO 936 01:35:39,738 --> 01:35:41,738 PROTECT IT." 937 01:35:42,739 --> 01:35:43,739 WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD THE LUXURY OF ARGUING 938 01:35:43,740 --> 01:35:45,740 OVER THE 939 01:35:49,740 --> 01:35:50,738 CLIMATE JUSTICE. I'M GOING TO SAY THAT AGAIN. 940 01:35:50,739 --> 01:35:56,738 WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO ARGUE WHETHER OR NOT WE NEED CLIMATE 941 01:35:57,738 --> 01:35:58,738 JUSTICE. WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS CLIMATE 942 01:35:58,739 --> 01:36:00,738 DESTRUCTION HAPPENING. WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD THE 943 01:36:00,739 --> 01:36:02,739 LUXURY TO ARGUE. 944 01:36:04,740 --> 01:36:06,740 IT'S NOW. IT'S TIME. 945 01:36:08,738 --> 01:36:11,738 AS WE SING THIS SONG TOGETHER WITH A CLOUD OF WITNESSES WE'VE 946 01:36:12,740 --> 01:36:16,738 CALLED TO BE WITH US MAY IT REMIND US TO HEED THE CALL TO BE 947 01:36:16,739 --> 01:36:18,737 KEEPERS. THAT IS PEOPLE WHO KEEP OUR 948 01:36:18,738 --> 01:36:21,740 COVENANT TO CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER AND THE EARTH. 949 01:36:23,740 --> 01:36:27,738 I'M GOING TO SING A LINE. I INVITE YOU TO SING A LINE BACK 950 01:36:27,739 --> 01:36:30,738 TO ME. IT IS A JOYCE POLEY SONG SO IT 951 01:36:30,739 --> 01:36:33,737 IS LOVELY AND RATHER EASY TO SING. 952 01:36:33,738 --> 01:36:35,738 BECAUSE SHE CARES SO MUCH ABOUT COMMUNITY SINGING 953 01:36:38,740 --> 01:36:40,738 . YOU CAN WATCH THE SCREEN FOR THE 954 01:36:40,739 --> 01:36:43,739 WORDS. WE'RE BLESSED BY EVERY RIVER. 955 01:36:43,740 --> 01:36:46,740 I'LL SING AND THEN IF YOU WOULD SING. 956 01:36:47,739 --> 01:36:49,739 [SINGING] 957 01:37:42,740 --> 01:37:46,738 >> WHEN WE SING THAT IN JUST A BIT WE'LL SING RIVER THE FIRST 958 01:37:46,739 --> 01:37:48,737 TIME. WE'LL SING FOREST THE SECOND 959 01:37:48,738 --> 01:37:50,737 TIME AND SING MOUNTAIN THE THIRD TIME. 960 01:37:50,738 --> 01:37:54,738 OUR WONDERFUL SINGERS ARE GOING TO HELP ME SING THE SECOND HALF 961 01:37:54,739 --> 01:37:56,739 OF THIS SONG JUST SO YOU CAN HEAR IT WHEN WE GET THERE. 962 01:37:56,740 --> 01:37:59,739 THAT SECOND PAGE, SECOND HALF IF YOU WOULD JOIN. 963 01:38:00,737 --> 01:38:07,738 [SINGING] 964 01:38:29,739 --> 01:38:34,737 >> LET US SING TOGETHER. [SINGING] 965 01:41:06,737 --> 01:41:10,738 >> I BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY AND MOUNTAINOUSLY 966 01:41:10,739 --> 01:41:12,739 STRONG RESIDES WITHIN THE SOUL OF EACH OF US. 967 01:41:15,738 --> 01:41:16,738 HELLO AND TENDER GREETINGS, MY DEAR AND HONEST 968 01:41:16,739 --> 01:41:18,739 FRIENDS. 969 01:41:26,738 --> 01:41:27,738 IT IS GOOD TO BE TOGETHER. WE HAVE COME FROM ACROSS THE 970 01:41:27,739 --> 01:41:28,737 COUNTRY AND FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD…AND WE MAKE WITHIN THIS 971 01:41:28,738 --> 01:41:30,737 CITY, A HUMBLE ALTAR. HIGH UPON THIS ALTAR, WE DO PLACE AN 972 01:41:30,738 --> 01:41:32,738 OFFERING 973 01:41:35,739 --> 01:41:37,737 AND WE GATHER DEAR AND LOVED ONES TO OUR SIDE TO WITNESS THE 974 01:41:37,738 --> 01:41:39,738 CATHEDRAL OF OUR PRESENCE HAPPENING 975 01:41:42,739 --> 01:41:43,738 AND TO SANCTIFY THIS MOMENT IN OUR LIVES AS IF RAISING HANDS TO 976 01:41:43,739 --> 01:41:45,739 HOLD A GENTLE BREEZE 977 01:41:46,739 --> 01:41:48,737 WE BUILD THE CATHEDRAL OURSELVES. WE 978 01:41:48,738 --> 01:41:52,741 USED TO BUILD IT WITH STONE AND WOOD. NOW, WE BUILD IT WITH 979 01:41:52,742 --> 01:41:54,742 BLOOD AND BONE, 980 01:41:57,738 --> 01:41:57,738 WITH BODIES, WITH OUR HEARTS AND MINDS. WE 981 01:41:57,738 --> 01:41:59,738 COME TOGETHER AND SOMETHING MAGICAL HAPPENS. WE SEE 982 01:41:59,739 --> 01:42:03,737 OURSELVES IN ONE ANOTHER AND WE REMEMBER THAT WE'VE COME HOME. 983 01:42:03,738 --> 01:42:07,738 SO, HELLO AND TENDER GREETINGS. IT IS GOOD TO BE TOGETHER. 984 01:42:10,738 --> 01:42:12,738 CAN WE TAKE JUST A MOMENT TO 985 01:42:15,739 --> 01:42:17,737 BREATHE. TAKE A MOMENT TO BREATHE DEEPLY 986 01:42:17,738 --> 01:42:21,738 AND TO SLOW DOWN. CAN WE BECOME FULLY PRESENT IN 987 01:42:21,739 --> 01:42:24,738 THIS PLACE? AND CAN WE SEND ROOTS DOWN INTO 988 01:42:25,738 --> 01:42:29,737 THE EARTH AND BE NURTURED BY OREGON GROUND ENOUGH TO HELP US 989 01:42:29,738 --> 01:42:32,737 TO OPEN UP OUR HEARTS AND TO FLOWER. 990 01:42:32,738 --> 01:42:37,736 IT'S NOT THAT HARD. ALICE WALKER TAUGHT ME HOW TO DO 991 01:42:37,737 --> 01:42:39,737 IT IN HER WRITE ING. 992 01:42:43,738 --> 01:42:46,737 SHE TAUGHT ME ABOUT A WOMAN NAMED KATIE TALKING TREE. 993 01:42:46,738 --> 01:42:48,738 A WOMAN THAT PRACTICE ED WALKING MEDITATION. 994 01:42:48,739 --> 01:42:52,737 AS ALICE WALKER EXPLAINS AND I QUOTE, UP AND DOWN THE PATH THAT 995 01:42:52,738 --> 01:42:56,737 LED FROM THE FRONT DOOR TO THE HALL, THEY DID A WALKING 996 01:42:56,738 --> 01:42:59,737 MEDITATION THAT HAD BEEN TAUGHT THEM BY A LOT OF DIFFERENT 997 01:42:59,738 --> 01:43:02,737 BUDDHIST TEACHERS, SOME FROM AMERICA, SOME FROM ASIA AND IT 998 01:43:02,738 --> 01:43:04,738 WAS 999 01:43:05,739 --> 01:43:08,738 A SLOW GRACEFUL MEDITATION THAT SHE LIKED. 1000 01:43:08,739 --> 01:43:13,737 SHE ENJOYED THE FEELING OF A HEEL TOUCHING THE EARTH LONG 1001 01:43:13,738 --> 01:43:15,738 BEFORE A TOE 1002 01:43:16,738 --> 01:43:18,738 DID. IN ORDER IT. 1003 01:43:19,738 --> 01:43:21,738 ALICE WALKER REMINDED ME THAT MEDITATION TAKES TIME. 1004 01:43:23,739 --> 01:43:24,737 AND THAT LIFE TAKES TIME. 1005 01:43:24,738 --> 01:43:26,738 SO LET'S SLOW DOWN AND 1006 01:43:28,739 --> 01:43:29,738 LIVE. I HAVE TO SLOW DOWN. MY LIFE 1007 01:43:29,739 --> 01:43:33,737 DEPENDS ON IT. WHEN I DON'T SLOW DOWN, I GET REALLY CAUGHT UP IN 1008 01:43:33,738 --> 01:43:35,737 THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED AROUND ME. 1009 01:43:35,738 --> 01:43:39,737 I GET CAUGHT UP IN WHAT HAPPENED IN FERGUSON AND IN 1010 01:43:39,738 --> 01:43:42,737 SANFORD, FLORIDA WHERE TRAYVON MARTIN WALKED WITH TEA AND 1011 01:43:42,738 --> 01:43:44,738 SKITTLES. I GET CAUGHT UP IN WHAT 1012 01:43:47,738 --> 01:43:48,736 1013 01:43:48,737 --> 01:43:50,737 UP IN THE DEATH OF TAMIR 1014 01:43:52,736 --> 01:43:56,739 RICE AND ERIC GARNER IN STATENAND RA 1015 01:43:57,738 --> 01:43:58,737 QI A WOULD BOYD IN CHICAGO AND WHAT 1016 01:43:58,738 --> 01:44:05,738 HAPPENED TO MARION AND FREDY GRAY IN BELOVED BALTIMORE AND I 1017 01:44:05,739 --> 01:44:07,738 BALL MY FISTS AND I CLENCH MY TEETH AND MY CHEST GETS TIGHT 1018 01:44:07,739 --> 01:44:09,738 FROM SHALLOW BREATHING…AND I CLOSE DOWN…AND I FORGET WHAT 1019 01:44:09,739 --> 01:44:11,739 ALICE WALKER WAS 1020 01:44:13,738 --> 01:44:15,738 TEACHING.TO SIT DOWN WITH THE 1021 01:44:16,738 --> 01:44:18,737 REDWOODS, FOR THEY KNOW TIME MUCH BETTER THAN WE 1022 01:44:18,738 --> 01:44:20,738 DO; TO WAKE 1023 01:44:21,738 --> 01:44:23,737 UP EARLY IN THE MORNING AND GREET THE DAY AND 1024 01:44:23,738 --> 01:44:25,738 LIVE IT LONG; 1025 01:44:26,738 --> 01:44:28,738 TO WALK GENTLY ON THE EARTH. 1026 01:44:31,738 --> 01:44:34,738 ALICE WALKER EXPLAINS THAT WE HAVE VERY -- IN THE VERY 1027 01:44:34,739 --> 01:44:37,736 TITLE OF THE BOOK THAT I QUOTED EARLY EARLIER, NOW IS THE 1028 01:44:37,737 --> 01:44:41,737 TIME TO OPEN UP YOUR HEART. 1029 01:44:42,738 --> 01:44:44,738 THE FIRST TIME I CAME TO THE 1030 01:44:45,739 --> 01:44:48,738 NORTHEAST, THE FIRST TIME I SAW THAT 1031 01:44:48,739 --> 01:44:53,739 FAMOUS MOUNTAIN WITH MY OWN EYES I WAS SURPRISED. 1032 01:44:53,740 --> 01:44:56,741 SHE SEEMED ALMOST CALM…MUCH MORE RESOLVED THAN I THOUGHT 1033 01:44:56,742 --> 01:44:59,740 SHE'D BE, EVEN AFTER ALL OF THIS TIME. 1034 01:44:59,741 --> 01:45:04,738 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, ON THE 18TH OF MAY IN 1980, SHE ERUPTED 1035 01:45:04,739 --> 01:45:09,739 IN VIOLENCE AND CATASTROPHE. SHE DARKENED THE SKY AND TOOK THE 1036 01:45:09,740 --> 01:45:11,740 LIVES OF 57 PEOPLE, 1037 01:45:13,737 --> 01:45:15,736 INCLUDING 83-YEAR-OLD HARRY TRUMAN. SHE 1038 01:45:15,737 --> 01:45:17,737 OVERWHELMED HERSELF WITH 1039 01:45:18,737 --> 01:45:20,737 HER FORCE, WITH HER OWN POWER. 1040 01:45:21,737 --> 01:45:23,737 SHE STOMPED HER FEET IN ANGER ON THE 1041 01:45:23,738 --> 01:45:27,736 EARTH UNTIL IT QUAKED BENEATH THEM-5.1 ON THE RICHTER SCALE. 1042 01:45:27,737 --> 01:45:31,736 SHE THREW THREE CUBIC KILOMETERS OF EARTH INTO THE HEAVENS OR 1043 01:45:31,737 --> 01:45:34,736 DOWN THE MOUNTAIN LIKE AN EARTHEN TIDAL WAVE. WHAT 1044 01:45:34,737 --> 01:45:36,737 REMAINED OF HER PEAK, OF 1045 01:45:37,737 --> 01:45:39,737 HER SUMMIT, WAS 1,300 FEET LOWER 1046 01:45:39,738 --> 01:45:44,737 THAN IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE. SHE MADE A MILE WIDE CRATER IN A 1047 01:45:44,738 --> 01:45:46,738 MATTER OF MINUTES AND SENT A VERTICAL PLUME OF ASH 16 MILES 1048 01:45:50,736 --> 01:45:52,737 1049 01:45:52,738 --> 01:45:54,738 MYSELF...REFLECTING HONESTLY, I'VE HAD DAYS LIKE THAT. 1050 01:45:56,737 --> 01:45:58,738 [LAUGHTER] I HAVE BEEN SO CAUGHT UP IN THE 1051 01:45:59,739 --> 01:46:02,737 1052 01:46:02,738 --> 01:46:05,737 HAVE, TOO, HAVE STOMPED MY FEET AND I, TOO, HAVE QUAKED THE 1053 01:46:05,738 --> 01:46:07,738 EARTH AND I, TOO, HAVE DARKENED THE SKY FOR THOSE AROUND ME. 1054 01:46:10,738 --> 01:46:11,739 1055 01:46:11,740 --> 01:46:13,737 SEEMED ALMOST CALM…MUCH MORE RESOLVED THAN I THOUGHT SHE'D 1056 01:46:13,738 --> 01:46:16,737 BE. HOW QUICKLY BEAUTIFUL LIFE 1057 01:46:16,738 --> 01:46:18,738 RETURNED TO HER. OF COURSE, IT DID. 1058 01:46:20,738 --> 01:46:24,736 SHE FOUND AN HONEST WAY TO THE GIFTS OF FORGIVENESS 1059 01:46:24,737 --> 01:46:26,737 FORGIVENESS, BEING THAT PRECIOUS AGREEMENT TO SEE THE WORLD AS IT 1060 01:46:26,738 --> 01:46:28,738 ACTUALLY IS. 1061 01:46:31,738 --> 01:46:33,738 THE MOUNTAIN THAT WE, IN OUR 1062 01:46:34,738 --> 01:46:36,737 CULTURE, HAVE COME TO KNOW AS MOUNT ST. HELENS FIGURED 1063 01:46:36,738 --> 01:46:38,738 OUT WHAT SHE BELIEVED ABOUT LIFE. 1064 01:46:41,738 --> 01:46:42,736 1065 01:46:42,737 --> 01:46:45,737 OWN EYES AND SHE OPENED UP HER HEART. 1066 01:46:45,738 --> 01:46:47,738 DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT LIFE? 1067 01:46:50,737 --> 01:46:52,737 CAN YOU SEE THE BEAUTY THAT IS 1068 01:46:54,738 --> 01:46:56,737 IN THE WORLD THAT IS WITHIN YOU ESPECIALLY WHEN 1069 01:46:56,738 --> 01:46:58,737 YOU'RE ALL CAUGHT UP IN THE WORLD? 1070 01:46:58,738 --> 01:47:03,737 I KNOW WHAT I BELIEVE. I BELIEVE SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY 1071 01:47:03,738 --> 01:47:07,737 MOUNTAINOUSLY RESIDES IN THE SOUL OF EVERY ONE OF US. 1072 01:47:07,738 --> 01:47:10,739 I STILL BELIEVE IN THE MOUNTAIN THAT ERUPTED YEARS AGO. 1073 01:47:10,740 --> 01:47:16,737 SHE HELPED ME TO OPEN MY HEART IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING AND 1074 01:47:16,738 --> 01:47:20,738 BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING, 1075 01:47:24,739 --> 01:47:29,737 I STILL BELIEVE IN A MOUNTAINOUS VOLCANO THAT LOST 1076 01:47:29,738 --> 01:47:33,737 ITSELF IN ITS OWN VIOLENT RAGE AND I BELIEVE IN LOOKING OUT UP 1077 01:47:33,738 --> 01:47:36,738 INTO THE OPEN DEPTHS OF MY OWN SOUL 1078 01:47:36,739 --> 01:47:38,739 AND IN FLYING WITH BOTH FEET IN PORTLAND 1079 01:47:42,739 --> 01:47:44,738 WOULD YOU SING WITH IT ME. WOULD YOU TRY THAT. 1080 01:47:44,739 --> 01:47:51,737 IT GOES LIKE THIS. [SINGING] 1081 01:48:40,737 --> 01:48:42,737 [GUITAR PLAYING] 1082 01:49:02,738 --> 01:49:04,738 [SINGING] 1083 01:52:53,743 --> 01:52:55,743 [APPLAUSE] 1084 01:52:57,744 --> 01:53:05,741 >> ONCE THERE WAS AND ONCE THERE WASN'T A GATHERING OF 1085 01:53:05,742 --> 01:53:07,742 WISE, CARING, AND IMPERFECT PEOPLE. 1086 01:53:10,743 --> 01:53:12,743 THEY CAME TO LEARN, TO SHARE, TO BE INSPIRED AND TO BE 1087 01:53:18,742 --> 01:53:22,741 -- AND TO REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE 1088 01:53:22,742 --> 01:53:25,741 CONNECTED IN IMPOSSIBLELY BEAUTIFUL WAYS. 1089 01:53:25,742 --> 01:53:27,742 THEY CAME TOGETHER BECAUSE THEIR OWN SOULS NEEDED IT, AND 1090 01:53:27,743 --> 01:53:29,743 EVEN MORE, BECAUSE THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD WERE FAR TOO LARGE 1091 01:53:31,742 --> 01:53:33,742 1092 01:53:37,742 --> 01:53:40,741 TO BE ABLE TO SOLVE ON THEIR OWN. 1093 01:53:40,742 --> 01:53:42,741 THEY GATHERED NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF THE WILLAMETTE AND 1094 01:53:42,742 --> 01:53:45,742 COLUMBIA RIVERS, AND NOT FAR FROM MOUNTAIN RANGES THAT 1095 01:53:45,743 --> 01:53:47,743 INCLUDES 1096 01:53:48,743 --> 01:53:55,742 TWO INCREDIBLE MOUNTAINS. ONE WHOSE PEAK WAS TALL AND 1097 01:53:55,743 --> 01:54:01,740 MAJESTIC AND ONE WHO HAD LOST HER TOP IN A POWERFUL ERUPTION. 1098 01:54:01,741 --> 01:54:03,741 BOTH MOUNTAINS WERE BEAUTIFUL. 1099 01:54:07,742 --> 01:54:09,742 1100 01:54:11,742 --> 01:54:13,741 1101 01:54:13,742 --> 01:54:16,741 THE EXPERIENCES THAT HAD SHAPED THEM OVER THE PAST YEAR, AS WELL 1102 01:54:16,742 --> 01:54:18,743 AS THEIR SHINING HOPES FOR THEIR TIME TOGETHER. 1103 01:54:25,742 --> 01:54:26,741 THE BOXES ALSO HELD THE REMNANTS OF WHAT THEY 1104 01:54:26,742 --> 01:54:28,742 CARRIED OVER TIME… THEIR HISTORIES AND 1105 01:54:30,743 --> 01:54:32,741 1106 01:54:32,742 --> 01:54:34,744 THOUGH NOT PARTICULARLY LARGE, FELT HEAVY. 1107 01:54:39,742 --> 01:54:41,742 SO MUCH WAS UNCLEAR. IT HAD BEEN A YEAR WITH 1108 01:54:44,742 --> 01:54:46,742 HORRIBLE RACIAL INJUSTICE…. 1109 01:54:54,742 --> 01:54:54,742 POSSIBLY NOT MORE INJUSTICE THAN OTHER YEARS, 1110 01:54:54,742 --> 01:54:56,742 BUT IT HAD BEEN MADE MORE VISIBLE, EVEN TO THOSE WHO COULD 1111 01:54:56,743 --> 01:54:58,743 USUALLY AVOID NOTICING IT. 1112 01:55:02,742 --> 01:55:03,741 THEIR BOXES WERE FULL OF THE THINGS 1113 01:55:03,742 --> 01:55:05,742 THAT MATTERED, SOME AS 1114 01:55:08,743 --> 01:55:14,741 LARGE AS AN OCEAN AND SOME AS HUGE AS 1115 01:55:14,742 --> 01:55:16,742 FORGIVENESS. 1116 01:55:20,743 --> 01:55:23,742 FOR MOST, THE SMALL AND LARGE THINGS THEY HAD DONE WERE WHAT 1117 01:55:23,743 --> 01:55:25,743 THAT THEY WANTED TO SHARE WITH 1118 01:55:26,744 --> 01:55:28,744 EACH OTHER WITH PRIDE IN THIS TIME 1119 01:55:29,744 --> 01:55:32,743 OF COMING TOGETHER. THESE WERE THE SUCCESSES AND 1120 01:55:32,744 --> 01:55:37,740 HOPE THAT WERE SHINY AND BEAUTIFUL. 1121 01:55:37,741 --> 01:55:42,742 THESE WERE THE THINGS THAT MIGHT JUST BE PART OF THE NEW WAY THAT 1122 01:55:42,743 --> 01:55:47,742 THEY HOPE ED TO BUILD. THE BOXES HELD THEIR QUESTIONS, 1123 01:55:47,743 --> 01:55:50,742 THEIR YEARNINGS AND THE ASPIRATIONS THAT THEY CARRIED 1124 01:55:50,743 --> 01:55:52,743 WITH THEM FROM 1125 01:55:54,742 --> 01:55:56,742 THEIR COMMUNITIES AT HOME. 1126 01:55:56,744 --> 01:56:02,741 THE BOXES ALSO HELD THEIR FEARS, THEIR HEART BREAK, AND THEIR 1127 01:56:02,742 --> 01:56:04,742 LOSSES. THEY CONTAINED THEIR 1128 01:56:05,743 --> 01:56:06,742 1129 01:56:06,743 --> 01:56:11,742 AND THEIR RESENTMENTS. WHILE SOME WHO HAD GATHERED PLANNED ON 1130 01:56:11,743 --> 01:56:15,741 SHARING THESE THINGS OPENLY, OTHERS PREFERRED TO KEEP THEM 1131 01:56:15,742 --> 01:56:17,742 TUCKED AWAY, AS THEY 1132 01:56:20,742 --> 01:56:22,742 FELT TOO TENDER, TOO GRITTY, OR 1133 01:56:23,743 --> 01:56:24,741 TOO UNPREDICTABLE TO BRING OUT OF 1134 01:56:24,742 --> 01:56:26,742 THE BOX. 1135 01:56:28,743 --> 01:56:30,741 AND THESE WISE, CARING, AND IMPERFECT PEOPLE, TALKED AND 1136 01:56:30,742 --> 01:56:32,742 LISTENED, THEY WORSHIPED AND 1137 01:56:34,743 --> 01:56:36,742 1138 01:56:36,743 --> 01:56:38,743 WORKSHOPS, THEY MET FROM EARLY IN THE MORNING UNTIL LATE INTO 1139 01:56:42,743 --> 01:56:44,741 -- AT NIGHT WITH HOPE THAT A NEW 1140 01:56:44,742 --> 01:56:48,741 WAY WOULD BECOME CLEAR. SOME WANTED TO JUST START 1141 01:56:48,742 --> 01:56:50,741 BUILDING TO SEE WHAT THEY COULD CREATE. 1142 01:56:50,742 --> 01:56:55,743 OTHERS WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THEY WOULD BE BUILDING BEFORE THEY 1143 01:56:55,744 --> 01:56:57,743 BEGAN. IT FELT A BIT LIKE PLANNING A 1144 01:56:57,744 --> 01:57:01,742 ROAD TRIP WHEN NO ONE KNEW WHICH MAP THEY WERE USING, WHICH 1145 01:57:01,743 --> 01:57:06,741 VEHICLE THEY WOULD TAKE,OR WHO WAS DRIVING. 1146 01:57:06,742 --> 01:57:09,742 THERE WERE WISE ONES OF MANY AGES PRESENT, WHO HAD BEEN PART 1147 01:57:09,743 --> 01:57:11,743 OF BUILDING NEW WAYS BEFORE. 1148 01:57:13,742 --> 01:57:15,741 1149 01:57:15,742 --> 01:57:17,743 WHICH TOOLS AND MATERIALS YOU HAVE AND AGREEING ON WHICH ONES 1150 01:57:20,742 --> 01:57:22,744 YOU WILL USE CAN BE IMPORTANT. 1151 01:57:24,743 --> 01:57:26,743 AND SO, AS THE RIVERS FLOWED BY, AND THE SHADOWS OF THE 1152 01:57:29,742 --> 01:57:31,743 1153 01:57:31,744 --> 01:57:35,742 LAND, THE PEOPLE OPENED THEIR BOXES AND BEGAN TO SHARE WHAT 1154 01:57:35,743 --> 01:57:37,743 THEY HAD BROUGHT. 1155 01:57:40,742 --> 01:57:42,742 THEY GENTLY REMINDED ONE ANOTHER TO LEAVE 1156 01:57:44,742 --> 01:57:48,741 THEIR JUDGMENT AND TRIVIALITY AT THE DOOR AND TO BE TOGETHER WITH 1157 01:57:50,742 --> 01:57:53,741 OPEN HEARTS AND MINDS. THEY SHARE ED THEIR SHINY AND 1158 01:57:53,742 --> 01:57:57,742 BEAUTIFUL SUCCESSES AND THEIR IMAGININGS FOR THE WAY THINGS 1159 01:57:57,743 --> 01:58:03,741 COULD BE. WHEN ALL OF THESE WERE LAID OUT 1160 01:58:03,742 --> 01:58:10,742 IN THE OPEN ONE OF THE WISE CARING AND IMPERFECT PEOPLE 1161 01:58:10,743 --> 01:58:13,741 ASKED A COURAGEOUS QUESTION. 1162 01:58:17,741 --> 01:58:19,741 WHAT IF ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE 1163 01:58:22,742 --> 01:58:24,742 1164 01:58:25,743 --> 01:58:26,741 1165 01:58:26,742 --> 01:58:28,742 HOPE TO BUILD? 1166 01:58:29,742 --> 01:58:31,742 WHAT IF BEING WILLING TO BE 1167 01:58:32,742 --> 01:58:34,742 HONEST ABOUT THE MOST GRITTY, 1168 01:58:37,742 --> 01:58:37,742 SHARP, AND TENDER THINGS WILL MAKE THE BIGGEST 1169 01:58:37,742 --> 01:58:39,742 DIFFERENCE? 1170 01:58:44,742 --> 01:58:46,742 AND SO THEY COMMITTED TO THEMSELVES AND TO ONE ANOTHER, 1171 01:58:49,742 --> 01:58:51,742 1172 01:58:52,749 --> 01:58:55,741 1173 01:58:55,742 --> 01:58:57,742 OF LISTENING TO UNDERSTAND, OF 1174 01:59:00,742 --> 01:59:02,742 1175 01:59:05,743 --> 01:59:07,743 1176 01:59:08,743 --> 01:59:09,742 1177 01:59:09,743 --> 01:59:11,743 FRUSTRATIONS, AND THEIR RESENTMENTS. 1178 01:59:13,743 --> 01:59:16,742 THEY SHARED HONESTLY, WITHOUT AIMING THEIR SHARP TRUTHS TO 1179 01:59:19,742 --> 01:59:21,742 1180 01:59:23,742 --> 01:59:25,741 TRUTH CAN SOMETIMES STILL BE PAINFUL 1181 01:59:25,742 --> 01:59:29,742 TO HEAR. AND WHEN SOME WERE AFRAID THAT 1182 01:59:29,743 --> 01:59:32,742 THEIR ANGER WOULD BE OVERWHELMING, THEY REMEMBERED 1183 01:59:32,743 --> 01:59:36,743 THE MOUNTAIN WHO HAD LOST HER TOP AND YET REMAINED POWERFUL 1184 01:59:39,742 --> 01:59:42,742 AND IMPOSSIBLELY BEAUTIFUL. 1185 01:59:46,743 --> 01:59:50,744 AND THEY SHARE ED AND LISTENED FROM THE OPEN DEPTHS OF THEIR 1186 01:59:51,745 --> 01:59:56,745 SOULS. 1187 02:00:07,745 --> 02:00:09,745 [INSTRUMENTAL SOLO] 1188 02:03:11,746 --> 02:03:13,746 [INSTRUMENTAL SOLO] 1189 02:03:52,756 --> 02:03:56,745 AND THE WISE BEING IMPERFECT BEING SAW 1190 02:03:56,746 --> 02:03:58,745 THEMSELVES AND ONE ANOTHER IN A NEW WAY. 1191 02:03:58,746 --> 02:04:04,746 THEY SAW THAT THEY WERE WHOLE IN THEIR BROKENNESS. 1192 02:04:04,747 --> 02:04:08,745 FIERCE IN THEIR VULNERABILITY AND ABLE TO HOLD COMPLEX TRUTHS 1193 02:04:08,746 --> 02:04:10,746 IN 1194 02:04:11,746 --> 02:04:13,746 MORE POWERFUL WAYS THAN THEY HAD 1195 02:04:16,746 --> 02:04:18,746 EVER IMAGINED. 1196 02:04:19,747 --> 02:04:22,747 AND THEY LOOKED AT THEIR STORIES, SHINY, GRITTY, AND 1197 02:04:22,748 --> 02:04:24,748 IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL. 1198 02:04:32,747 --> 02:04:34,747 THEY BREATHED IN CONNECTION, 1199 02:04:36,745 --> 02:04:38,745 1200 02:04:41,746 --> 02:04:43,746 THAT WAS SWIRLING AROUND THEM 1201 02:04:44,747 --> 02:04:46,745 AND THROUGH THEM. SOMETIMES THEY 1202 02:04:46,746 --> 02:04:48,748 CONTINUED TO TRIP ON THEIR OWN WINGS. 1203 02:05:01,745 --> 02:05:03,747 THEY FELT THE LOVE THAT HELD THEM, AND TOGETHER, TOGETHER, 1204 02:05:09,746 --> 02:05:11,746 1205 02:05:14,747 --> 02:05:17,745 THEY SET ABOUT CHOOSE ING WHAT TO 1206 02:05:17,746 --> 02:05:22,745 KEEP, WHAT TO FORGIVE, WHAT TO LET GO 1207 02:05:22,746 --> 02:05:28,745 OF, AND THEN, TO BUILDING A NEW WAY. 1208 02:06:17,747 --> 02:06:19,747 [APPLAUSE] 1209 02:06:29,750 --> 02:06:31,751 ON THIS FIRST NIGHT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY, LET US OPEN OURSELVES 1210 02:06:35,750 --> 02:06:37,746 TO THE WISDOM THAT IS ALL AROUND US. 1211 02:06:37,747 --> 02:06:42,746 WILL YOU JOIN ME IN THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER FOLLOWED BY QUIET 1212 02:06:42,747 --> 02:06:45,746 REFLECTION? YOU MIGHT CLOSE YOUR EYES IF 1213 02:06:45,747 --> 02:06:51,747 THAT IS AVAILABLE TO YOU OR IF YOU PREFER TO JUST SOFTEN YOUR 1214 02:06:51,748 --> 02:06:53,748 GAI ZE. 1215 02:06:57,746 --> 02:07:04,747 HOLY ONE, GREAT MYSTERY, DIVINE PRESENCE, THE STILL 1216 02:07:07,747 --> 02:07:12,746 SMALL VOICE WITHIN, HUMAN KIND, WE GATHER 1217 02:07:12,747 --> 02:07:16,745 TOGETHER IN YOUR PRESENCE AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CLOUD OF 1218 02:07:16,746 --> 02:07:22,747 WITNESSES WE'VE INVOKED. THERE HAS BEEN SOME GOOD, SOME 1219 02:07:23,746 --> 02:07:28,746 BEAUTY, SOME INCREDIBLE LOVE THIS YEAR AND YET WE HUMANS HAVE 1220 02:07:29,747 --> 02:07:34,746 ALSO MADE A MESS OF THINGS. WE HAVE SOMETIMES FALLEN SHORT 1221 02:07:35,747 --> 02:07:40,746 OF OUR ASPIRATIONS. WE'VE BROKEN COVENANTS, MADE 1222 02:07:40,747 --> 02:07:45,747 MISTAKES. WE'VE HURT PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES. 1223 02:07:45,748 --> 02:07:51,747 WE'VE ACTED WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY OR WE'VE FAILED 1224 02:07:51,748 --> 02:07:53,748 TO ACT BECAUSE WE ARE AFRAID AND 1225 02:07:56,748 --> 02:08:01,745 CONFUSED. MAY WE LEARN TO MAKE AMENDS AND 1226 02:08:01,746 --> 02:08:08,745 HAVE THE COURAGE TO APOLOGIZE. MAY WE BE WILLING TO FORGIVE, TO 1227 02:08:08,746 --> 02:08:12,747 RELEASE OURSELVES AND ONE ANOTHER FROM WHAT HOOKS US. 1228 02:08:12,748 --> 02:08:15,747 MAY WE BUILD RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS 1229 02:08:15,748 --> 02:08:19,747 AND CARE FOR THE EARTH. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. 1230 02:08:20,747 --> 02:08:25,746 MAY WE LEARN TO BEGIN AGAIN IN LOVE. 1231 02:08:25,747 --> 02:08:27,747 MAY IT BE 1232 02:08:28,748 --> 02:08:31,749 SO. LET US SIT BRIEFLY IN THE QUIET 1233 02:08:32,748 --> 02:08:36,745 TOGETHER, EVEN AS THE SOUNDS OF LIFE GO ON IN AND AROUND US. 1234 02:08:36,746 --> 02:08:40,745 CONSIDER WHAT IT MIGHT BE LIKE IF WE SAT DOWN TOGETHER WITH OUR 1235 02:08:41,746 --> 02:08:46,745 BOXES AND THEN WITH HUMILITY AND VULNERABILITY 1236 02:08:46,746 --> 02:08:51,744 VULNERABILITY SHARE ED OUR HEARTS' CONTENTS 1237 02:08:51,745 --> 02:08:56,745 WITH EACH VOICE BEING VALUE ED, CHOOSING WHAT TO KEEP, WHAT TO 1238 02:08:56,746 --> 02:09:02,745 FORGIVE, WHAT TO LET GO OF, AND COMMITTING TO BUILDING A NEW WAY 1239 02:09:02,746 --> 02:09:04,746 . 1240 02:09:54,747 --> 02:09:56,747 [SINGING] 1241 02:10:34,746 --> 02:10:36,746 >> WHO ARE WE CALLED TO BE? 1242 02:10:37,747 --> 02:10:38,745 1243 02:10:38,746 --> 02:10:40,746 BROKEN AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD? 1244 02:10:45,746 --> 02:10:47,746 WHAT SHALL WE DO? 1245 02:10:53,747 --> 02:10:55,747 WHAT MUST WE DO? 1246 02:11:01,747 --> 02:11:03,746 >> THE THREE OF US MET IN SEMINARY. 1247 02:11:03,747 --> 02:11:05,747 1248 02:11:06,747 --> 02:11:08,747 1249 02:11:08,748 --> 02:11:11,747 OPPRESSIONS, REV. DR. REBECCA PARKER ASKED OUR IN-COMING CLASS 1250 02:11:11,748 --> 02:11:13,748 TO DAILY SAY A PRAYER FOR ONE ANOTHER. 1251 02:11:15,747 --> 02:11:17,747 WE HAD SOME AWESOME CLASSMATES. 1252 02:11:20,747 --> 02:11:21,746 TO PREPARE FOR. THE THREE OF US, EACH CALLED TO 1253 02:11:21,747 --> 02:11:22,745 1254 02:11:22,746 --> 02:11:24,746 FROM VERY DIFFERENT 1255 02:11:26,747 --> 02:11:28,747 LIVES-WITH BROKEN AND WIDE OPEN HEARTS 1256 02:11:28,748 --> 02:11:30,748 SHARING THE SAME PRAYER.... 1257 02:11:37,747 --> 02:11:39,747 >> THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ME. 1258 02:11:43,747 --> 02:11:43,747 >> THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL THAT 1259 02:11:43,747 --> 02:11:45,747 I LOVE. 1260 02:11:46,748 --> 02:11:49,746 >> THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL. >> THERE IS A LOVE 1261 02:11:49,747 --> 02:11:51,747 HOLDING US. 1262 02:11:52,754 --> 02:11:54,754 >> THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL THAT WE LOVE. 1263 02:11:56,747 --> 02:11:58,747 >> THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL. 1264 02:12:01,747 --> 02:12:03,747 >> WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1265 02:12:08,747 --> 02:12:10,746 >> I LEARNED THIS PRAYER FROM A DEAR 1266 02:12:10,747 --> 02:12:12,747 FRIEND, WHO HAD LEARNED IT FROM DR. PARKER. 1267 02:12:17,748 --> 02:12:17,748 IT CAME TO ME AS A GIFT AT A TIME WHEN I NEEDED TO 1268 02:12:17,748 --> 02:12:21,747 PRAY IT. AND I DID, EACH MORNING AS I WALKED. 1269 02:12:25,746 --> 02:12:27,746 AND AS I PRAYED IT, I BEGAN TO 1270 02:12:28,746 --> 02:12:30,747 SING IT, FIRST IN MY HEAD, AND THEN ALOUD. 1271 02:12:36,747 --> 02:12:37,746 AND THEN I REALIZED THAT THE MELODY I WAS 1272 02:12:37,747 --> 02:12:40,747 SINGING WAS BUILDING ON ITSELF HARMONICALLY, PHRASES BY 1273 02:12:43,747 --> 02:12:45,747 PHRASE, IN THE SAME WAY THAT 1274 02:12:46,747 --> 02:12:48,747 THE PRAYER EXPANDS FROM ME, TO 1275 02:12:50,747 --> 02:12:52,747 ALL THAT I LOVE, TO ALL; FROM 1276 02:12:54,747 --> 02:12:56,747 US, TO ALL THAT WE LOVE, TO THE ALL. 1277 02:12:58,747 --> 02:13:06,748 [SINGING] THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ME 1278 02:13:11,747 --> 02:13:14,745 1279 02:13:14,746 --> 02:13:16,746 I LOVE. 1280 02:13:19,748 --> 02:13:21,748 THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL. 1281 02:13:25,746 --> 02:13:27,746 I REST IN THIS LOVE. 1282 02:13:34,746 --> 02:13:36,746 THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING US. 1283 02:13:40,745 --> 02:13:42,745 THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL 1284 02:13:43,746 --> 02:13:45,746 THAT WE LOVE. 1285 02:13:48,746 --> 02:13:50,746 THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL. 1286 02:13:56,745 --> 02:13:58,745 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1287 02:14:07,747 --> 02:14:09,747 THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL. 1288 02:14:13,745 --> 02:14:15,745 THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL THAT WE LOVE. 1289 02:14:20,745 --> 02:14:22,745 THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ALL. 1290 02:14:28,747 --> 02:14:30,747 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1291 02:14:37,746 --> 02:14:39,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1292 02:14:45,746 --> 02:14:47,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1293 02:14:51,745 --> 02:14:53,745 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1294 02:15:01,746 --> 02:15:03,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1295 02:15:07,755 --> 02:15:09,755 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1296 02:15:16,746 --> 02:15:18,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1297 02:15:26,745 --> 02:15:28,745 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1298 02:15:36,746 --> 02:15:38,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1299 02:15:41,746 --> 02:15:43,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1300 02:15:44,746 --> 02:15:46,746 >> THERE IS A LOVE. 1301 02:15:47,747 --> 02:15:49,745 THERE IS A LOT OF LOVE IN THIS ROOM 1302 02:15:49,746 --> 02:15:51,746 AS YOU SING. 1303 02:15:54,747 --> 02:15:56,748 [SIPPING] WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1304 02:15:59,748 --> 02:16:02,745 >> IF YOU COULD LOOK AROUND THE ROOM IF THAT IS AVAILABLE TO YOU 1305 02:16:02,746 --> 02:16:05,746 OR SIMPLY LISTEN AROUND THE ROOM FEEL AROUND THE ROOM. 1306 02:16:05,747 --> 02:16:09,748 THOSE OF YOU ONLINE FEEL THE PRESENCE BEYOND THESE WALLS AS 1307 02:16:10,747 --> 02:16:16,747 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. [SINGING CONTINUES] 1308 02:16:24,746 --> 02:16:26,747 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1309 02:16:35,746 --> 02:16:37,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1310 02:16:44,746 --> 02:16:46,746 WE REST IN THIS LOVE. 1311 02:17:09,747 --> 02:17:12,745 >> BLESS. >> BLESSING. >> BLESSED. 1312 02:17:12,746 --> 02:17:14,745 >> SO MANY THOUGHTS CROWD MY MIND. 1313 02:17:14,746 --> 02:17:16,746 >> SO MANY THOUGHTS CROWD MY MIND. 1314 02:17:18,746 --> 02:17:20,745 >> TRIPPIN ON OUR OWN WINGS, WE 1315 02:17:20,746 --> 02:17:22,746 BECAME FAST FRIENDS 1316 02:17:23,747 --> 02:17:25,747 MUSIC MAKING, BURRITO EATING, 1317 02:17:26,747 --> 02:17:27,746 THE( )LOGIZING, MEMORIZING, 1318 02:17:27,747 --> 02:17:29,747 HYPNOTIZING, MESMERIZING, THEN DOWNSIZING 1319 02:17:32,746 --> 02:17:35,745 THE PATRIARCHY AND THE INFLUENCE OF WHITE SUPREMACY 1320 02:17:35,746 --> 02:17:37,745 THAT TRIES TO DIVIDE YOU FROM ME 1321 02:17:37,746 --> 02:17:39,744 HEALING THE WOUNDS INFLICTED BY A RACIST SOCIETY AND THERE IS SO 1322 02:17:39,745 --> 02:17:41,745 MUCH MORE TO 1323 02:17:46,746 --> 02:17:49,747 FEEL AND SEE. THE COMPLEXITY, TENACITY, AND 1324 02:17:49,748 --> 02:17:52,756 FEROCITYOF THIS. 1325 02:17:54,747 --> 02:17:58,747 >> OF THIS. >> OF THIS. 1326 02:18:03,745 --> 02:18:07,745 >> OF THIS. WE GATHER FROM ALL OVER THE 1327 02:18:07,746 --> 02:18:11,746 PLACE. ON LINE AND IN THIS SPACE AND 1328 02:18:11,747 --> 02:18:17,747 NOW THESE BEAUTIFUL FACES. 1329 02:18:21,746 --> 02:18:28,745 AND IT IS JUST FOR ONE REASON. FINDING US IN TIMES OF TROUBLE, 1330 02:18:28,746 --> 02:18:30,746 MOTHER MARY COMES TO 1331 02:18:32,747 --> 02:18:32,747 ME. SHE SAYS. 1332 02:18:32,747 --> 02:18:36,744 >> YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE GOOD. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WALK ON YOUR 1333 02:18:36,745 --> 02:18:38,745 KNEES FOR A HUNDRED MILES 1334 02:18:39,745 --> 02:18:41,745 1335 02:18:42,746 --> 02:18:45,744 1336 02:18:45,745 --> 02:18:47,745 ANIMAL OF YOUR BODY LOVE WHAT IT LOVES. 1337 02:18:53,745 --> 02:18:54,746 >> MARY OLIVER KNOWS THE REASON. 1338 02:18:54,747 --> 02:18:56,746 >> THE REV. BILL SINKFORD ASSESSES THAT 'WE HAVE ONLY 1339 02:18:56,747 --> 02:18:58,747 BEGUN TO IMAGINE JUSTICE AND MERCY." 1340 02:19:00,747 --> 02:19:02,746 >>REV. SINKFORD KNOWS. >> THE REV. MICHAEL-RAY MATTHEWS, 1341 02:19:02,747 --> 02:19:05,746 REMINDS US TO "STRIVE TO BE PROPHETS OF THE RESISTANCE, AND 1342 02:19:05,747 --> 02:19:07,747 NOT CHAPLAINS 1343 02:19:11,747 --> 02:19:13,747 OF THE EMPIRE" >> REV. MATTHEWS KNOWS. 1344 02:19:15,746 --> 02:19:17,746 SOMETIMES WE LOSE OUR WAY, FORGET OUR 1345 02:19:17,747 --> 02:19:19,747 WORTH, LOSE OUR DIGNITY ARGUE ABOUT THINGS MERE 1346 02:19:23,745 --> 02:19:25,745 1347 02:19:25,746 --> 02:19:27,746 LOSING THEIR LIVES, SEE... THEN THE BELL RINGS AND 1348 02:19:33,747 --> 02:19:33,747 PROFESSOR BELL HOOKS CALLS US TO HIGHER 1349 02:19:33,747 --> 02:19:35,747 GROUND. SHE SAYS, >> FORGIVENESS AND 1350 02:19:35,748 --> 02:19:37,748 COMPASSION ARE ALWAYS LINKED: 1351 02:19:41,745 --> 02:19:42,744 >> HOW DO WE HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR 1352 02:19:42,745 --> 02:19:44,745 WRONGDOING AND 1353 02:19:46,745 --> 02:19:48,744 AND YET AT THE SAME TIME REMAIN IN TOUCH WITH 1354 02:19:48,745 --> 02:19:53,745 THEIR HUMANITY ENOUGH TO BELIEVE IN THEIR CAPACITY TO BE 1355 02:19:53,746 --> 02:19:56,746 TRANSFORMED? >> BELL HOOKS KNOWS THE REASON 1356 02:19:59,746 --> 02:20:00,744 1357 02:20:00,745 --> 02:20:03,746 MANY STRIPES THE SIDE OF LOVE WHICH IS ALL SIDES 1358 02:20:07,745 --> 02:20:09,745 DRAGON FIERCE, TENDER HEARTED 1359 02:20:10,747 --> 02:20:12,747 WE GOTTA GET THIS EVOLUTION STARTED 1360 02:20:15,747 --> 02:20:17,747 VEN, VEN, CUAL ERES VEN 'COME WITH 1361 02:20:17,748 --> 02:20:20,746 YOUR WILD IMAGININGS OF A BETTER WORLD.' 1362 02:20:20,747 --> 02:20:22,747 REV. LESLIE TAKAHASHI INVITES 1363 02:20:23,747 --> 02:20:24,746 1364 02:20:24,747 --> 02:20:26,747 SAYS, 1365 02:20:28,746 --> 02:20:30,746 >> ALL THAT WE HAVE EVER LOVED 1366 02:20:31,747 --> 02:20:33,747 1367 02:20:36,747 --> 02:20:38,745 ARE WITH US ON THE BRINK OF ALL 1368 02:20:38,746 --> 02:20:42,747 THAT WE ASPIRE TO CREATE. >> FOR THE WORLD WE RAISE OUR 1369 02:20:42,748 --> 02:20:44,745 VOICES, FOR THE HOME THAT GIVES US BIRTH; >> NO TENGAS MIEDO A 1370 02:20:44,746 --> 02:20:46,746 CAMBIAR. 1371 02:20:47,747 --> 02:20:49,747 DON'T BE AFRAID OF SOME CHANGE. 1372 02:20:52,760 --> 02:20:53,744 1373 02:20:53,745 --> 02:20:55,744 HISTORY DANCIN' DOWN THE ROAD- LIVE THE 1374 02:20:55,745 --> 02:20:58,744 LIFE THAT THRIVES WITHIN TO KEEP THE FLAME ALIVE, SPREAD IT 1375 02:20:58,745 --> 02:21:00,745 AROUND 1376 02:21:05,749 --> 02:21:08,744 IF CORNEL WEST IS RIGHT, JUSTICE 1377 02:21:08,745 --> 02:21:09,745 IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE IN PUBLIC, THEN WE MUST LOVE. WE 1378 02:21:09,746 --> 02:21:11,745 MUST NOW LOVE PUBLICLY AND LOVE WISELY AND LOVE WELL. WE MUST 1379 02:21:11,746 --> 02:21:13,746 RESTORE OUR BEAUTY AND 1380 02:21:16,747 --> 02:21:18,747 SOMEHOW DO IT RIGHT OUT LOUD. 1381 02:21:19,746 --> 02:21:23,744 IT WILL BE THE HARDEST THING BUT WE WILL DO IT ANYWAY. 1382 02:21:23,745 --> 02:21:24,746 IN THE MIDST OF GREATEST SORROW 1383 02:21:24,747 --> 02:21:26,746 AND IRRETRIEVABLE LOSS, WE WILL REACH FOR BEAUTY AND WE WILL 1384 02:21:26,747 --> 02:21:29,746 SUCCEED. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO SETTLE FOR 1385 02:21:29,747 --> 02:21:31,746 ANYTHING LESS-NOT FOR THE PABLUM OF THE MEDIA, NOT EVEN FOR OUR 1386 02:21:31,747 --> 02:21:34,747 OWN PRETENSES. WE NEED SACRAMENT AND NOT SANCTIMONY AT THIS TIME. 1387 02:21:37,745 --> 02:21:38,745 1388 02:21:38,746 --> 02:21:40,744 PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS. WE MUST DISPEL THE ILLUSION OF 1389 02:21:40,745 --> 02:21:42,745 SEPARATION. WE ARE CONNECTED AND, TOGETHER, 1390 02:21:43,746 --> 02:21:45,746 1391 02:21:47,747 --> 02:21:49,747 SOUL RICH ENOUGH TO GET BEYOND OUR SADNESS, BEYOND OUR SORROW 1392 02:21:51,751 --> 02:21:54,746 AND BEYOND OUR FEAR. THE FIRES OF FERGUSON, OF 1393 02:21:57,746 --> 02:21:58,745 BALTIMORE FORCE TO US LOOK UNFLINCHINGLY AT WHAT IS REAL, 1394 02:21:58,746 --> 02:22:00,745 TO SEEK JUSTICE AND TO DO THIS WORK TOGETHER. WE MUST BE, AS 1395 02:22:00,746 --> 02:22:02,746 MATTHEW TEACHES, 1396 02:22:04,747 --> 02:22:05,745 "AS WISE AS SERPENTS AND AS GENTLE AS DOVES" 1397 02:22:05,746 --> 02:22:07,746 FOR THE FIRES 1398 02:22:10,745 --> 02:22:11,745 OF FERGUSON AND BALTIMORE ARE BURNING IN OUR 1399 02:22:11,746 --> 02:22:14,746 HEARTS.AND BURNING MORE RECENTLY AND 1400 02:22:14,747 --> 02:22:18,746 TRAGICALLY ARE THE FIRES IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE THAT LIVE IN 1401 02:22:18,747 --> 02:22:22,746 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA THE PAIN IS UNSPEAKABLE, UN 1402 02:22:22,747 --> 02:22:23,745 UNFATHOMABLE FATHOMABLE AND 1403 02:22:23,746 --> 02:22:27,746 UNBEARABLE UNTIL ONE MANIFESTS FAITH ENOUGH TO FIND FORGIVENESS 1404 02:22:27,747 --> 02:22:32,746 JUST AS NADENE COLLIAR DID JUST 1405 02:22:32,747 --> 02:22:38,744 JUST AS SHE LOST HER MOTHER ONLY DAYS EARLY IER TO A VIOLENCE AND 1406 02:22:38,745 --> 02:22:40,745 MURDEROUS RAGE AND I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW I CAN'T DO IT. 1407 02:22:40,746 --> 02:22:41,746 NOT THE WHOLE OF ME AT ANY RATE 1408 02:22:41,747 --> 02:22:43,747 RATE. I'M NOT STRONG ENOUGH YET. 1409 02:22:44,747 --> 02:22:48,746 BUT I'M TRYING. I AM OPENING TO THE POSSIBILITY 1410 02:22:49,745 --> 02:22:51,745 OF DEEPER FAITH. 1411 02:22:54,747 --> 02:22:56,747 >> THE SPIRIT OF OUR HUMANITY 1412 02:22:59,747 --> 02:23:01,745 1413 02:23:01,746 --> 02:23:06,745 INSPIRE IT IN ONE ANOTHER. WE CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MOMENT. 1414 02:23:06,746 --> 02:23:08,746 BECAUSE… 1415 02:23:09,748 --> 02:23:12,746 >> BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE WE CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER MOMENT. 1416 02:23:12,747 --> 02:23:14,747 BECAUSE FINDING OURSELVES IN A WORLD OF OPPRESSION IT IS TIME 1417 02:23:15,747 --> 02:23:17,747 TO GET TO THE BUSINESS OF CONFESSION. 1418 02:23:17,748 --> 02:23:20,748 RATHER THAN ABUSING THE EARTH AND EACH OTHER FOR OUR OBSESSION 1419 02:23:20,749 --> 02:23:26,744 OF HAVING OF WANTING THE DEATH OF SPECIES ACROSS THE GLOBE IS 1420 02:23:26,745 --> 02:23:32,746 HAUNTING AND TO UNDO CAPITALISM IS DAUNTING BUT THE MYTH IS ON 1421 02:23:32,747 --> 02:23:35,745 RALPHING. TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS LEAVES 1422 02:23:35,746 --> 02:23:38,745 US GROVELING FOR A FEW CRUMBS RATHER THAN MARVELING AT THE 1423 02:23:38,746 --> 02:23:40,746 GIFTS WE HAVE RIGHT HERE 1424 02:23:41,746 --> 02:23:45,746 FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES WISDOM SO NEAR 1425 02:23:45,747 --> 02:23:49,746 SHARE WHAT WE HAVE BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME SO CLEAR THAT THE WAY 1426 02:23:49,747 --> 02:23:51,744 FORWARD MEANS WE WALK, WE MOVE TOWARD 1427 02:23:51,745 --> 02:23:53,745 TROUBLE 1428 02:23:54,747 --> 02:23:56,747 OPEN OUR HEARTS, BE VULNERABLE 1429 02:23:59,747 --> 02:24:00,745 1430 02:24:00,746 --> 02:24:01,745 1431 02:24:01,746 --> 02:24:02,745 BUT I'M FEELING A LITTLE DESPERATE 1432 02:24:02,746 --> 02:24:05,745 BROKEN HEARTED AND TENDER SPIRIT 1433 02:24:05,746 --> 02:24:07,746 BLACK LIVES MATTER ARE YOU FEELING IT? 1434 02:24:15,746 --> 02:24:17,745 I HOPE YOU'LL JOIN US IN A PRAYER OF PEACE KNOWING A 1435 02:24:17,746 --> 02:24:19,746 LOVE THAT DOES NOT CEASE TO HOLD US 1436 02:24:22,746 --> 02:24:24,746 BUT WE HAVE TO LOVE AND WE HAVE 1437 02:24:30,746 --> 02:24:32,746 1438 02:24:33,746 --> 02:24:35,746 WE HAVE TO CHANGE, WE CAN, WE 1439 02:24:37,747 --> 02:24:39,747 MUST. 1440 02:24:41,747 --> 02:24:43,747 LET'S START A NEW OBSESSION 1441 02:24:47,747 --> 02:24:50,746 BY UTTERING A TRUE CONFESSION THAT WE HAVE ALL CONTRIBUTED TO 1442 02:24:50,747 --> 02:24:51,745 OPPRESSION. AND KNOW ITS TIME TO LEARN THE 1443 02:24:51,746 --> 02:24:52,746 LESSON THAT YOU AND ME NEED TO START 1444 02:24:52,747 --> 02:24:54,745 PROFESSIN' THAT WE NEED ONE ANOTHER, AND 1445 02:24:54,746 --> 02:24:56,746 I'M NOT LYING AND I AIN'T GUESSIN' 1446 02:25:00,746 --> 02:25:04,745 THIS HERE'S TRUTH, WE CAN'T BE MESSIN' AROUND GOT TO HONOR THIS 1447 02:25:04,746 --> 02:25:06,745 GROUND.., TRAVEL GENTLY ON MOTHER EARTH 1448 02:25:06,746 --> 02:25:08,746 WE HAVE GOT TO ACTUALLY 1449 02:25:10,747 --> 02:25:12,747 1450 02:25:15,746 --> 02:25:17,745 [APPLAUSE ] 1451 02:25:17,746 --> 02:25:19,745 THE INSISTENCE ON INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IS SIN TREATING EACH 1452 02:25:19,746 --> 02:25:22,746 OTHER WITH RACISM INSTEAD OF LIKE KIN MENDING, HEALING BEYOND 1453 02:25:22,747 --> 02:25:24,747 AND ALSO WITHIN 1454 02:25:28,745 --> 02:25:30,745 RESEARCHING AND BEYOND REASON. 1455 02:25:30,746 --> 02:25:32,746 UNIVERSALIST UNITARIANS… 1456 02:25:35,747 --> 02:25:38,745 TAILOR IT SWIFTLY WHILE YOU HAVE BEEN 1457 02:25:38,746 --> 02:25:41,744 GOING DOWN WITH THE LIARS AND DIRTY CHEAT OF THE WORLD YOU 1458 02:25:41,745 --> 02:25:45,746 COULD HAVE BEEN GETTING DOWN TO THIS SICK BEAT. 1459 02:25:51,745 --> 02:25:53,745 >> LOVE. >> LOVE FOR ALL LIFE. 1460 02:25:58,745 --> 02:25:58,745 1461 02:25:58,745 --> 02:26:00,745 MISTAKES AND OUR FORGIVENESS. >> LOVE DEEP ENOUGH TO HOLD US 1462 02:26:02,746 --> 02:26:03,744 WHEN WE RISK BEING A FOOL, WHEN WE 1463 02:26:03,745 --> 02:26:05,745 YEARN FOR AUTHENTIC CONNECTION. 1464 02:26:07,746 --> 02:26:08,746 1465 02:26:08,747 --> 02:26:10,747 AS WE GROW, CHANGE, EXPAND, AND TRULY SERVE ALL LIFE. 1466 02:26:14,747 --> 02:26:16,747 >> LOVE STRONG ENOUGH TO FACE 1467 02:26:18,747 --> 02:26:20,745 DOWN OUR DEMONS, TURN ENEMIES TO ALLIES, 1468 02:26:20,746 --> 02:26:24,744 SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES. >> LOVE BOLD ENOUGH TO BE 1469 02:26:24,745 --> 02:26:26,745 VULNERABLE, TEACHABLE, HUMBLE. 1470 02:26:28,747 --> 02:26:30,747 1471 02:26:32,746 --> 02:26:33,745 1472 02:26:33,746 --> 02:26:35,746 THE MORAL UNIVERSE TOWARD JUSTICE. 1473 02:26:38,745 --> 02:26:40,745 >> LOVE REFLECTIVE ENOUGH TO 1474 02:26:43,745 --> 02:26:45,745 1475 02:26:48,747 --> 02:26:49,745 1476 02:26:49,746 --> 02:26:51,746 THEN WITH THE REST- LET IT GO! 1477 02:26:52,756 --> 02:26:54,746 1478 02:26:54,747 --> 02:26:57,745 DECONSTRUCT WHAT ISN'T WORKING >> IMAGINE WHAT WE MIGHT BUILD 1479 02:26:57,746 --> 02:27:02,746 THAT IS A BLESSING >> AND BUILD THAT NEW WAY TOGETHER, >> NOW… 1480 02:27:05,747 --> 02:27:06,745 1481 02:27:06,746 --> 02:27:07,746 AUTHOR AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST, ARUNDHATI ROY, "ANOTHER WORLD IS 1482 02:27:07,747 --> 02:27:11,747 NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, SHE IS ON HER WAY. 1483 02:27:11,748 --> 02:27:15,745 ON A QUIET DAY, I CAN HEAR HER BREATHING." 1484 02:27:15,746 --> 02:27:17,746 >> MAY WE REST AND MOVE IN THIS 1485 02:27:20,746 --> 02:27:22,745 LOVE. >> MAY WE DANCE AND STORY IN 1486 02:27:22,746 --> 02:27:26,746 THIS LOVE. >> MAY WE BUILD AND BUILD IN THIS LOVE. 1487 02:27:31,746 --> 02:27:33,746 >> SALAAM, SHALOM, NAMASTE, 1488 02:27:34,747 --> 02:27:36,747 AMEN, ASHE, AND BLESSED BE. 1489 02:27:50,746 --> 02:27:51,744 >> OUR CLOSING SONG WAS SHARED IN THE CLOSING OF 1490 02:27:51,745 --> 02:27:53,745 JUSTICE GA IN 2012 BY COMPOSER MELISSA 1491 02:27:53,746 --> 02:27:55,746 MONFORTI. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR HER 1492 02:27:55,747 --> 02:27:58,746 GENEROSITY IN ALLOWING US TO USE THIS SONG TONIGHT IN KEEPING 1493 02:27:58,747 --> 02:28:01,744 WITH OUR THEME OF BUILDING A NEW WAY! 1494 02:28:01,745 --> 02:28:03,744 JEFF CHAMBERLAIN AND THE GA BAND ARE GOING TO HELP US OUT ON 1495 02:28:03,745 --> 02:28:05,746 THIS. THE WORDS WILL BE ON THE 1496 02:28:05,747 --> 02:28:07,747 SCREEN. 1497 02:28:10,747 --> 02:28:12,747 LET'S RISE IN BODY AND SPIRIT TO SING HAND-IN-HAND. 1498 02:28:21,746 --> 02:28:23,746 [GUITAR PLAYING] 1499 02:31:53,746 --> 02:31:55,746 >> BUILDING A NEW WAY INCLUDES 1500 02:31:58,745 --> 02:32:00,745 1501 02:32:01,745 --> 02:32:02,746 ALL, OF MAKING EVERY PLACE 1502 02:32:02,747 --> 02:32:07,744 ACCESSIBLE. IF YOU ARE A PERSON WHO USES 1503 02:32:07,745 --> 02:32:09,745 ASSISTIVE DEVICES OR JUST NEEDS MORE TIME TO NAVIGATE YOUR WAY 1504 02:32:12,746 --> 02:32:14,743 1505 02:32:14,744 --> 02:32:17,746 AND YOUR COMPANIONS OR ASSISTANTS TO MAKE YOUR WAY 1506 02:32:17,747 --> 02:32:19,747 TOWARDS THE EXITS, SINGING AS YOU GO. 1507 02:32:21,746 --> 02:32:23,746 IF YOU ARE A PERSON WHO IS CURRENTLY ABLE-BODIED, PLEASE 1508 02:32:25,745 --> 02:32:27,745 1509 02:32:29,745 --> 02:32:31,747 OR MINUTES OF SINGING ALLOWING THE 1510 02:32:32,747 --> 02:32:36,746 PASSWAYS TO BE ACCESSIBLE AND SOON TO FOLLOW THOSE LEAD 1511 02:32:36,747 --> 02:32:38,747 LEADING US OUT. >> MAY YOU SLEEP WELL TONIGHT, 1512 02:32:38,748 --> 02:32:41,747 AND DREAM OF HOW WE CAN BUILD NEW WAYS TOGETHER. >> GO FORTH 1513 02:32:41,748 --> 02:32:43,747 AND MAKE IT A GREAT GENERAL ASSEMBLY! 1514 02:32:43,748 --> 02:32:45,748 >> SEE YOU TOMORROW 1515 02:32:47,748 --> 02:32:50,746 BRIGHT AND EARLY AT 8 AM FOR OUR MORNING 1516 02:32:50,747 --> 02:32:51,745 DEVOTIONAL RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM. 1517 02:32:51,746 --> 02:32:53,746 >> BLESSED BE AND AMEN! 1518 02:33:48,747 --> 02:33:50,747 [SINGING CONTINUES]