Watch the service HERE. The publication of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird prequel, Go Set A Watchman, unleashed a torrent of befuddlement about the recasting of Atticus Finch from paragon of white virtue to an emblem of deep south racism. Mary Louise  goes home as an adult and sees a different shade of Atticus than she had seen through the adoring young eyes of Scout. In this sermon, several weeks before another Election Day, we’ll explore “radical honesty” and the disturbing, empowering, and liberating ways our lives, our world, and the people in it, become more real when we are willing to “declare what we see” through unblinking adult eyes. In this age of “truthiness,” conspiracy theories, and alternative facts, how do we reconcile the beautiful with the ugly, the vile with the just, the fondness we have for friends and family when it is sullied by expressions of prejudice? And what will we do with the truths we see? Rev. Robin Landerman Zucker, preaching, with Worship Leader Eric Tschuy. Music from Mary Reese and a Time for All Ages from Tara Toler.

Topics: Compassion, Perspective, Social Justice