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11/24/2019 - Becca Griffin Sermon - "Being Still" - Brookmeade Congregational UCC, Nashville, TN

Brookmeade congregational church, ucc* “still” Becca Griffin Reign of christ Sunday, Last sunday after pentecost, next sunday starts advent Introduction: Brenda Perez, a fellow divinity student community organizer, Daca recipient, having come to the US with her family at 6, she is an advocate for immigration reform she tells a story about a nonviolent protest, a disruption             she was a part of at one of the detention centers where they were bussing in children.             the group she was there with wanted to cause disruption, to protest, but didn’t want to scare the children or stress them more than they already were…             So, they drew a Quetzal, native bird to guatemala, a symbol on the coin which it’s named after, and the bird on the guatemalan flag. it’s a beautiful bird with a long tail—it looks magical and it’s bright and these advocates for immigration reform knew it would be familiar for a child immigrating, seek

1/26/2020 - Fungi: A Network - Becca Griffin - Brookmeade Congregational UCC, Nashville, TN

“Fungi: A Network” -  A Sermon by Becca Griffin delivered in the company of Brookmeade Congregational Church, UCC, Nashville, TN, 1/26/2019 (click here for audio) This Sunday was UCC Health and Human Services Sunday/Affirmation of Ministry, we acknowledge the wonderful things our greater connection is doing and working toward as we do our local work here on our various teams.  What a great thing it is to be part of a wider community of care, what a great thing to be part of this community at Brookmeade, caring for each other and our world. The internet is a wonderful thing.  Most of the time? Some of the time?  Sometimes it’s difficult to nail down the internet’s purpose, though it has been described as something for “all of us.” It does help us communicate.  This is crucial, but what is it’s overall purpose? I suppose that is up to those using it. Fungi communicates in a network similar to the internet according to Fantastic Fungi, a documentary currently showing at the Belcourt