Critical Patriotism

The Sunday after Independence Day, we let music and scripture carry the weight of a complicated love, love for a country, and the honesty that real love requires. This Sunday's program ranges wide: the soaring hope of Sibelius's Finlandia, the unity sought in Audrey Assad's Your Peace Will Make Us One, the searching ambivalence of Anthem from Chess, and the urgent cries of Shaina Taub's Huddled Masses and Run, Freedom, Run from Urinetown. We'll also hear from the prophet Amos, whose words to a confident, comfortable nation still ring true: "Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream," a call not to abandon love of country, but to deepen it. Come worship with us as we sing and listen our way through gratitude, grief, protest, and hope.