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When exploring this month’s theme of inclusion, it is important to be aware of its apparent opposite, exclusion. Author Cole Arthur Riley, creator of Black Liturgies, considers the toll exclusion takes: 

Exclusion operates by the same rule of mutuality as welcome, for it harms both the excluded and the excluder. If you are the hands of exclusion for long enough, you learn acceptance only at the hands of someone else’s exile. You learn belonging as competition, not restoration. It is also a kind of restlessness, for the energy you expend forbidding others to walk through the door of community is only matched by the energy you expend competing to stay inside yourself. This is maybe more dangerous; no one ever perceives the doorkeeper as needing an invitation themselves.… 

Join us for this worship service in which we (did you say witch?) examine our world and our place in it as people of faith.