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Rev. Baron reminds that every person is a genius. We all carry precious gifts for our community and our world. Together, let us create a community that notices and celebrates these gifts. Rev. Erica Baron is a Congregational Consultant in the New England Region. She served the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills in Kingston, New York. She is a 2008 graduate of Andover Newton Theological School.

Over the past 50 years, Buddhist scholar and ecological activist Joanna Macy has promoted strategic constructive responses to the global environmental crisis. In today’s service, one of her longtime students, Rev. Dan King, asks whether we might consider applying Joanna’s analysis and recommended strategy to our current national crises.

When we look today at one another, we see the folks we have known for a few years or for ten or even twenty years, but what were these same people like when they were 21? How do the years and their stresses and joys change us? What have we lost and what have we gained by what life has taught us?

As a denomination we promote what I’d like to call the “Gospel of Free Thought.” And we promote this with regard to both Religion and Spirituality. I believe we should actively share this worldview with others around us. If that is proselytizing, then so be it. Let’s proselytize. Please join me as I reflect on these ideas and our long-held UU belief that we not proselytize. – Rev. John Pepper . In Rev. Pepper's absence, the sermon was read by Gary Yokie.

“Radical Hospitality-Are You On Board?” As we navigate these stressful times, what is ours to do? Sages have helped give us a roadmap.