Jim Scott - November 5, 2023
The Year to Save the Earth
The Year to Save the Earth "Join us for a special service, a multimedia, musical message from UU composer Jim Scott. This is the pre-premier, sneak preview of “The Year to Save the Earth.” Jim’s powerful and poignant songs of Earth and Ecology are illustrated with beautiful and striking images on our big screen. There’s many opportunities to sing along. Come celebrate our Mother Earth, the challenges, and the hope for the future. Over four decades, composer, poet, and activist Jim Scott has performed in more than 700 UU Churches. His much loved “Gather the Spirit” and others are included in our UU hymnbooks., Jim was one of the creators of the “Green Sanctuary” program and he compiled the “Earth and Spirit Songbook,” 110 songs of ecology and peace. Longtime member of the Paul Winter Consort, Jim co-wrote their celebrated “Missa Gaia/Earth Mass.” He has gone on to create award winning choral works, PBS soundtracks, and nine CDs of original music. Jim received an NEA grant to create and produce “The Year to Save the Earth” multimedia concert. He hopes to take it everywhere." Jim Scott, preaching. Chela Metzger, worship associate. Order of Service is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QKEVc-5WkpfOKVuOFdfueZrbUdCOPxiYXCEXyoRILwk/edit?usp=sharing
From Monthly: "Generosity"
Let’s consider that we live in a generous and grace-filled world. We can notice connections between gratitude and generosity, or how ideas about generosity get in the way of justice. We can ponder that generosity’s enemy is a scarcity mentality.