As the United Nations works for human rights, how does our faith intersect to call us to action?  As October 24 is United Nations Day, and the Unitarian Universalist Association has an office at the United Nations, we will reflect on healing through policy change.

[Note:  Rev. Alex McGee will be preaching.]

Theme Question:  What does it mean to be a community of healing?
Abigail Van Buren, the original “Dear Abby,” has been quoted as saying, “A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”  This echoes words attributed to Jesus, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”  We UUs don’t use words like “saints,” “the righteous,” and “sinners” all that often, yet we ought to listen through those particular words to hear what’s being said – religious communities exist, at least in part, for the work of healing.  And each of us can no doubt think of a great many things in need of healing – from our own personal heartaches, right up to the health of the planet.  What would it mean for us to see TJMC as “a community of healing?”  What might we do differently?  How might we be different?  This is a month to explore such questions.