The Courage to Keep Asking

A girl with brown skin and South Asian features standing and speaking into a microphone. Other children are also seated around her, and camera operators are pointing in the direction she is looking.

To counter authoritarianism, it’s not enough to raise children who ask bold questions—we must also become and remain adults who keep questioning, learning, and acting with conscience. James Luther Adams stated “A faith that is not the friend of freedom is an enemy of life.” Across the generations, our Unitarian Universalist communities must model free inquiry, moral courage, and compassion as spiritual practices that resist fear, conformity, and control.

Worship leader: Rev. Catherine Boyle

Worship Associate: Jane Correia

If you prefer to join the community of those attending online, there are two options. One, join the service via Zoom bit.ly/uucpa_service_1015am_v3. To get the passcode, email sundayservice@uucpa.org or call UUCPA’s outgoing voicemail message, 650-494-0541. It is also included in the weekly update emails. Two, to watch the service live on our Facebook page (no passcode required), visit UUCPA’s live Facebook feed. You can follow along in the order of service, which will be posted here before Sunday.

Photo: Children asking questions to politicians, photo by Arne Panesar (with the help of an intern). SuSanA Secretariat, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons