“A Black Pioneer in a White Denomination”
Revs. Tim Temerson and Tori Goodloe
IN PERSON AND ON ZOOM

Today’s service celebrates Black History Month by looking at the life and ministry of Rev. Egbert Ethelred Brown, who was a trailblazing Unitarian minister and a leading voice in African American Humanism. We will explore Rev. Brown’s extraordinary contributions to our faith tradition as well as his fraught relationship with the larger Unitarian movement, a relationship characterized by elitism, marginalization, and white supremacy.

Prelude    ​​​​                                           offered by Scott Deveaux

Welcome                                              Tori Goodloe, Worship Weaver

Call To Worship                                        Rev. Tim Temerson

Chalice Lighting​​​

Opening Hymn​​               #354 We Laugh, We Cry” (Verses 1 & 4) 

​​​​                   ​​​​​Story                                              “To Question Is An Answer”​​

Sharing the Flame

Hymn                                      ​ #414, “As We Leave This Friendly Place”

Musical Interlude

Testimonial                                  ​​Hayley Owens

Centering and Sharing

Offertory​​​​    Offered by Scott Deveaux

Reading     ​​“Why I am a Unitarian” by Rev. Egbert Ethelred Brown​

Sermon I                                   “A Black Pioneer in a White Denomination”                        

Reading                                      “Mission of the Harlem Community Church”

Sermon II                  ​​​

Closing Hymn​​Here Together – Going Forth                     ​​                

Benediction and Chalice Extinguishing​​​

Postlude                                             offered by Scott Deveaux        ​