on keeping faith

[bronze_ribbons]

Still working on my sermons for later today. In the meantime, here's a quote from the Rev. Bill Sinkford (president of the Unitarian Universalist Association; emphasis mine):

This country's growing pluralism is a blessing - one that the founders of this country could never have imagined but for which they prepared fertile ground by writing their egalitarian ideals into our foundational documents. What we should be doing in this country is continuing to expand the circle of those we include in the promises made in our Constitution. And I believe that despite the backlash we see every time the circle is widened, it never really shrinks back to where it was before.

And a quote from Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of Great Britain:

To make a difference, you don't have to change the world all at once. You save the world one act at a time.

Comments

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Yes. My "one sermon" seems to be evolving from "life is complicated, dammit" to "there's no point in not trying, dammit" ... *rueful grin*

Plus, even in this current climate, things seem to me to be markedly better than they were when I was a kid. Ignorant and hurtful as people still can be, they are at least thinking twice and/or on the defensive on comments and attitudes that wouldn't even have been challenged in the 1970s and 1980s.