Each year, we celebrate our founding with music, worship, food and fellowship.
Sunday, June 7th, 2015
Service & celebration starting at 6 pm. Potluck supper to follow.
See you there, Beloved!
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Resurrection Story
From a sermon read on Easter Sunday 2015
We tell the stories
Because they are our stories.
We tell the stories
To find ourselves,
To remind ourselves
Who we are
And whose we are.
Holy Saturday Reflection from Rev. Angie: Claiming Them As Our Own
She is slowly taking her leave,
The painful withering away
Of mind and body
That is Alzheimer’s.
She lies still in her own bedroom
Given the dignity of dying in her own home
By her beloved devoted daughter Lynn.
Grace, who is full of Grace,
Has been at their side
In constant loving care
For both dying mother
And grieving daughter.
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Good Friday Reflection: The Stations of the Cross
This visual reflection from the Episcopal Church Visual Arts registry, by Kathrin Burleson, entitled “The Soul’s Journey: A Mystical Approach to the Stations of the Cross,” contemplates Christ’s journey through imprisonment, crucifixion and resurrection. Click on each image to view a prayer you might pray while contemplating each stage of the journey.
I: Jesus Prays in the Garden of Gethsemane
He came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him. When he reached the place, he said to them, ‘Pray that you may not come into the time of trial.’ Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed, ‘Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done.’ Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and gave him strength. In his anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. — Luke 22
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Lenten reflection by Rev. Angie Wright: Lighting the darkness
Triumphal Entry (1969), Emmanuel Nsama, mural in the chapel at Njase School, Choma, Zambia
Last week I stood in a place
Where the threat of violence
And the promise of nonviolence
Came face to face.
I stood in a place
Where hope and futility
Clashed horns.
I stood in a place
Where fierce love
Went toe-to-toe
Against the violent abuse of power.
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Holy Week at Beloved
Palm Sunday Potluck
Sunday, March 29th, immediately following 6 pm worship.
131 41st Street South, Birmingham
Come as you are, bring friends, family, share what you can – all are welcome!
Lenten Reflection by Rev. Angie Wright: Suffering of the body
Rev. Angie read the following statement Thursday on behalf of GBM to welcome Caravana 43, families of the 43 Mexican students who were disappeared by the police last September.
The families believe the students are still alive and they are here to demand accountability from the Mexican government.
They also asked President Obama to stop funding the Merida Initiative, which they say supports police corruption.
“For 46 years, GBM has worked tirelessly for justice and mercy and to lift up the voices of the victims of neglect, poverty and abuse of power.
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Lenten Reflection from Rev. Angie Wright: Will the real God please stand up?
We are made in God’s image, male and female. So says God in the first creation story in the book of Genesis.
Do we also make God in our image?
Maybe even more than we realize. The Biblical image of God seems two-faced: sometimes faithful, forgiving, peace-filled, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love – just as we are in our best moments.
At other times, God seems just as petty, jealous, violent and destructive as we can be.
Made in God’s image – that can be downright worrisome.
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Lenten Reflections: On the Bridge
Last week, several of our Beloveds traveled to Selma along with members of First Congregational Church, Pilgrim Church and Covenant UCC to commemorate the Bloody Sunday Bridge Crossing. Here are some of our reflections.
“As a white women, being in Selma was like reconnecting a bridge between the ignorance that has been my black history lessons, and the reality of 50 years ago. Bloody Sunday is the point of contact for that bridge – a moment in history which embodies so starkly the experience of so many black folks in America for too many years, and too many years which linger into the present.
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Lenten Reflection: The Power of Your Word
In some version of the good old days, a contract could be sealed with a word and a handshake. Children were taught, “Your word is your bond.” This was an agreed-upon community standard that made it possible to trust and be trusted.
After my father’s recent death, I learned that he had a business partner he trusted so implicitly that all it took was one phone call, one word, one handshake, to agree to a new business deal – no lawyers, no spreadsheets, no documentation, no fine print. It worked, for them.
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