Upcoming Sunday Services
June 28, 2009
“The Place of Music”
A three service mini-series begins this Sunday, reflecting on different aspects of the place of music in our life and worship. Bonnie Ettinger leads a program in which members/friends of the congregation sing, or play their musical instruments and explain how music is part of their spirituality.
July 5, 2009
“From American Exceptionalism to Maturity”
Music sometimes illustrates or exemplifies ideas better than speeches or books. In a celebration of Independence Day, Craig Bailey will share music from the American Manifest Destiny era. He will use the words of author, career Army officer and Boston University history and international relations professor Andrew Bacevich to bring us up to the modern era through his book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. (The featured guest on a Bill Moyers program last fall, Bacevich is a retired Army colonel and former West Point teacher who lost a son in the Iraq war.)
July 12, 2009
“Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
The Sprit, the History, and the Hope
Beverly Holmes, a retired music educator, will speak briefly from an historical
and experiential perspective about the history and importance of James
Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" also known as "The African American National Anthem".
