There is a new project of Faith Voices of the Common Good that Unitarian Universalists might be interested in, it is called Gather Heart. It enables preachers who are preparing sermons on prophetic themes to collaborate with an online group. The program promises to support preachers working in Christian, Jewish and Unitarian Universalist contexts.
The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. is the Senior Minister of The Riverside Church, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph.D., is Director of The Shalom Center are the co-chairs of the project.
I hope they give this some time to get going, I have planned my preaching schedule already and it will take a national emergency or a local controversy to get me to change. But I think I might like to try this in the future.
Gather (Heb. Kah-vatz):
Join together, harvest, summon breath, assemble, glean, collect, congregate, rally, grow, deepen understanding, invite, attract.
We gather to "discern our collective responsibility for the present time in our quest for the unity of love, power, and justice.... God is the great gatherer.... It is a wonderful hope and vision -- that someday we will create gathering places for all people because we know we are already one people in the heart of God."
--Mary Donovan Turner, Old Testament Words
Heart (Heb. Lev):
Soul, Spirit, core, fundamental, center of values, courage, depth, mercy, empathy, compassion, love, joy, good will.
"The lodging place of wisdom.... The heart is the essence of who we are -- how we think and feel and carry out our living in relationship to God and to the world."
--Mary Donovan Turner, Old Testament Words
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