Sermon Description:
This week, sacred time in three traditions overlaps in Easter, Passover, and Ramadan. It is a time to celebrate! We’ll hear stories of liberation and new life, read together with the secular writer Rebecca Solnit, especially her book Hope in the Dark. These ancient and more recent stories invite us to new perspectives on the problems we face locally and globally. They help us resist despair and empower us to act in liberating and life-giving ways, even (and especially) when outcomes are uncertain.

Chalice Lighting:
“For Holy Days on Which We Recall the Old Stories” by Dillman Baker Sorrells

Reading:
“Maggid” from The Velveteen Rabbi’s Haggadah for Pesach by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

Hymns:
#268 “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”
#266 “Now the Green Blade Riseth”

Music:
“All Glory, Laud, and Honor” by Melchior Tischner
“Total Praise” by Richard Smallwood
“Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by J.S. Bach; arranged by John A. Dempsey
“Rejoice & Sing” by Rollo Dilworth