January 19, 2025

• Cindy Heiland
• Cindy Malley
• Mary Giurleo
• Niela Miller
• Rev. Jackie Clement
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• creative maladjustment
• fighting fascism
• Martin Luther King
• Time for All Ages

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January 14, 2024

• Araya Fast
• Cindy Heiland
• Cindy Malley
• Lori Grant
• Lynn Cina
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Sara Cope
• Thea Shapiro
• anti-racism
• Learning Up
• Macdellar Sons of Grace Preparatory School
• Martin Luther King
• poverty
• Time for All Ages
• white supremacy culture

Our Annual MLK Sunday. Share-the-Plate was for the Macdellar Sons of Grace Preparatory School (via Learning Up).

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January 15, 2023

• Caroline Marvin
• Cindy Heiland
• Larry Kaylor
• Lori Grant
• Monica Pilman
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Thea Shapiro
• Martin Luther King
• racism
• Time for All Ages
• white supremacy culture

The Racial Justice Action Committee (RJAC) and I lead the annual MLK service.

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January 16, 2022

• Kris Ersland
• Larry Kaylor
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• civil rights
• Martin Luther King
• Time for All Ages

Our annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday service, thinking about voting rights then and now.

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January 17, 2021

• Araya Fast
• Caroline Marvin
• Martha Childs
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• The Radical King
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• imagination
• Martin Luther King
• online worship
• racism
• satyagraha
• Time for All Ages

Our annual MLK Sunday service. If you watch on YouTube, click “show more” to see the order of service.

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January 19, 2020

• Kris Ersland
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• civil rights
• John Lewis
• Martin Luther King

On January 19, 2020 we celebrated Martin Luther King Sunday. In this video, you will see Kris Ersland present the “Social Justice Moment”, sharing a video featuring civil rights leader John Lewis (and thanking FCU member Caroline Marvin along with FCU). There is also an unveiling of a portrait of a young John Lewis from the Civil Rights Movement, which now hangs in our Vestry. Finally, I share my short sermon, “Good Trouble”, with a titled inspired by the words of Lewis.

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April 7, 2019

• Rev. Lara Hoke
• The Radical King
• Martin Luther King
• militarism
• poverty
• racism

I preached a short sermon on the forgotten Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – the MLK who isn’t often discussed at civic events.

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January 14, 2018

• Rev. Steve Edington
• Martin Luther King

It will be 50 years ago come this April, but the memory is vivid as ever. I was a 22 year old seminarian in Rochester, New York and was doing my field education at a large, liberally oriented American Baptist church in a Rochester suburb. Just as I was going into a meeting there on the evening of April 4, 1968 someone said they’d heard on the news that Martin Luther King had been shot.

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