Every congregation has a story–or 10 or 20–that’s both written into its DNA and still emerging when it comes to building a truly inclusive, equitable, joyful, multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community. What story is UUSS creating? What gifts and challenges, mistakes and miracles can we unearth from our communal history to give us strength, curiosity, and cautionary tales as we strive to live the radically inclusive nature of our faith? Drawing on the stories told in her book Mistakes and Miracles as well as her own experience, Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones urges us to move UUSS’s story deeper into the messy, glorious territory of Love.

Guest Preacher: Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones is a Minister Emerita of First Unitarian of San Jose, where she served 18 years. She’s the co-author of Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Multicultural Journey. Nancy now is Director of Faith Leader Organizing, PACT-Santa Clara County (People Organizing in Community Together). Before attending Harvard Divinity School, she was an actor, singer, and book editor.

The sermon series on Finding Our Way to the Future is funded by the Dr. Betty Ch’maj Events Fund, which honors the work of a UUSS leader and professor of American Studies at Sacramento State, who died in 1997.

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