Lessons from Suffering - a podcast by 1st Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco

Going to and from Selma Alabama for the 50th anniversary of the voting rights campaign there, John Buehrens was reading Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society, by UC Berkeley professor john a. powell, who spoke at a dinner here on Feb. 28. In his final chapter, from which this sermon takes its title, Powell writes, "If spirituality is engagement with the deeper sense of self, the divine, or God, narrow engagement with the egoistic self is the lack of spirituality. The suffering that is caused by separation cannot be healed by this small self. Indeed, it is this same small self and the institutional arrangements that it collectively brings into being that cause social suffering."


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Dr. Phil Marshall, Worship Associate
Reiko Oda Lane, organ
David Jones, piano
Maria Solis, soprano
Jiun-Chyi Yew, soprano
Kat Liu, Welcome
Jonathan Silk, Sound, Order of Service & Worship Archives/Podcast

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