From Fragility to Accountability

Sermons-First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

"From Fragility to Accountability" (July 26, 2020)
This Sunday, there is a journey we'd like you to take with us. Let us go as seekers. We will pack a little bag and wander along a less traveled path. It's a path that we hope, one day, will become well worn as others follow us into a new place. We won’t be following an easy trail, but the promise of this journey is that we will become less anxious and more steadfast in the work of anti-racism. We have a responsibility that has been nagging at us for generation upon generation, and now is a very good time to take up the mantle handed to us by our ancestors. It is time to survey the landscape and ask ourselves, “How has this nation’s history of racism shaped my life and my community?”
And what if along this road we discover new possibilities that fuel us towards a more just society? What if the contentment that comes with facing the past illustrates for us—in bright, living color—what a stronger, healthier, more just community might be?
How do we get to that place from where we are now? In the words of Antonio Machado, “Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. By walking you make the path.”
Come then, join us, and let us make our way together through this difficult terrain moving from fragility to accountability. No, it won’t be easy, but it is necessary. It is what we are called to do in this time and place.
Carmen Barsody, Faithful Fools Street Ministry
Sam Dennison, Faithful Fools Street Ministry
Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern, Senior Minister
Dennis Adams, Worship Associate
Reiko Oda Lane, organist
Hugo Wainzinger, guitarist
Rita Fabrizio, flutist
Mark Sumner, Songleader
Brielle Nielson, Songleader
Eric Shackelford, camera
Joe Chapot, Social Media Chat Support
Alex Darr, Zoom Remote Host
Jonathan Silk, OOS, Sound