​Sunday, July 5 Morning Service  -- 11am, via Zoom

Speakers: Members and Friends of UUCO
Service Leader: Eunice Benton
 
On this weekend when Independence Day – the 4th of July – is once again the holiday we note, and in a week when our state has made the historic move of retiring the flag that contained the Confederate battle emblem in its corner, our service addresses the personal and spiritual feelings of patriotism.  At this pivotal time in history, how do we feel about being citizens of our country – and our state… and our town?  When do we feel proud and loyal?  When do we feel dismayed and ashamed, even?  How do our individual life experiences and identities shape what we feel?
 
Voices from our UUCO community will address these questions… and then our gathered community will continue to explore them during our coffee hour.
 
This theme will be further explored in coming Sundays in July… 

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Topic: Sunday Service July 5, 2020
Time: Jul 5, 2020 10:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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The annual General Assembly of our UUA brings powerful voices to us!!  Join in this morning to hear inspiring speakers and soul-stirring music from this annual gathering!   

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Doors Open at 11:30 am
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Topic: Sunday Service June 28, 2020
Time: Jun 28, 2020 11:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Speakers:  Members of the Lafayette County Lynching Memorial Team
Service Leader: Eunice Benton 
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85 years ago Elwood Higginbottom, an African American citizen of Lafayette County, was lynched near the 3-way intersection in Oxford. Higginbottom was a share cropper, a husband and a father who was killed because he was protecting his family.  He is identified as the last known lynching victim in Lafayette County.  

In October 2018, nearly 500 people, including many from the Higginbottom family, gathered in Oxford to memorialize Elwood Higginbottom.  At the culmination of the memorial event, a plaque telling the Higginbottom story was installed at the 3-way intersection site. Since 2018, the Lafayette County Lynching Memorialization Team of about 20 people have worked in cooperation with the Equal Justice Initiative to continue the work of researching and remembering the people who were lynched in Lafayette County.  This team plans to install a marker on the courthouse lawn naming all the victims of lynching in Lafayette Co.

At the Jun 21 Sunday service UUCO welcomes this team to reflect on their work, the next steps and how this work connects to the recent murders of African Americans in this country and the swell of support for the Black Lives Matter initiative.  Members of the steering team include April Grayson, Alonzo and Terry Hilliard, Effie Burt, Emma Rice, Fred Lorenzo, Martha and Jon Scott, Gail Stratton, Laura Harper, Michael Johansson, Donald Cole, Duncan Gray, Randon Hill, Wil Howie, Correl Howle and Nicole Gladden.  Members of the team will reflect on how memorializing the past changes us in the present.  

The Zoom Service will start at 11:00 on Sunday morning. 

Topic: Sunday Service June 21, 2020
Time: Jun 21, 2020 10:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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We all think of ourselves has having compassion but there is a lot more involved in truly practicing compassion than we normally think about. Karen Armstrong, a noted religious writer and former Ware Lecturer at UUA General Assembly, has unpacked this noble human quality in one of her many books. Using Armstrong's work and words from world scriptures Rev. Gail Tapscott will attempt to show us a roadmap to practicing compassion in every part of our lives.

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Topic: Sunday Service June 14, 2020
Time: Jun 14, 2020 10:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Today we will be treated to hearing how two of our UUCO families are using play as sources of fun, creativity and spirituality. Rev. Gail Tapscott will be interviewing Dinorah, Chris and Olivia Sapp and Colleen Jameson, Annie Blessit and Junebug who will share their intergenerational learnings from many forms of play before and during quarantine. Many world religions have indeed raised up play as a viable part of the road to enlightenment.

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Topic: Sunday Service June 7, 2020
Time: Jun 7, 2020 10:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Chaplain Joe Vernon Young (named after both grandfathers) has been Pastoral Care director at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi since 2010.  Prior to that, he did mission work in Liberia, and served as a minister in different parts of the South.  Chaplain Young plans to talk with us about the “Ministry of Presence,” when he will incorporate a poem by Wendell Berry [see below] into his message.

​THE LARGER CIRCLE
By Wendell Berry
 
“We clasp the hands of those that go before us,              
And the hands of those who come after us.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   We We enter the little circle of each other’s arms,              
 And the larger circle of lovers, whose hands are joined in a dance,    
                                                                                                                                                                                           And And the larger circle of all creatures,                               
Passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance,
                                                                                                                                                                                               
To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it                          
Except in fragments.”   

​On May 24, UUCO’s speaker is Dr. Jo Ann O’Quinn, who has organized and facilitated the Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders monthly support group since 1985, and the Caring for Aging Relatives Effectively (C.A.R.E) Education and Support Group since 2000.  Jo Ann is Professor Emerita of Social Work at the University of Mississippi, where she has been an effective educator of students, caregivers, pharmacists, social workers, and other allied health professionals.  She will describe “Thirty-five years of caring for caregivers in Oxford.”
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Topic: Sunday Services  May 24, 2020
Time: May 24, 2020 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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​On May 17, UUCO’s speaker is Professor Michael Wade, who is a Military Science Instructor from the University of Mississippi, and has attended numerous UUCO services over these last several months.  His talk is titled “The Civilians’ Guide to their Veteran friend.”

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Topic: Sunday Service May 17, 2020
Time: May 17, 2020 10:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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On Mother’s Day 2020, Rev. Tapscott has chosen to look at nurturing.  She will also consider how becoming a mother serves as a threshold to adulthood experience.  In addition, she will examine how venturing into motherhood can change a woman’s sense of self.


Topic: Sunday Service May 10, 2020
Time: May 10, 2020 10:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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On May 3, UUCO will celebrate our annual “Transitions Sunday,” where we recognize four of our young people who are officially graduating from either Oxford High School or from The University of Mississippi. Chantry Belk, Tycho Jenkins, Sophie Quinn, and Ash Shoemaker will join our virtual conversation, and share some of their own thresholds with us.

Time: May 3, 2020 10:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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