Lay-led service using a sermon by Rev. Victoria Safford Doug Gregor, facilitator

Most of us have only a faint understanding of how societies open up or close down, become supportive of freedom or ruled by fear… One reason for our vagueness about how liberty lives or dies is that we have tended lately to subcontract out the tasks of the patriot: to let the professionals—lawyers, scholars, activists, politicians—worry about understanding the Constitution and protecting our rights, they way we hire a professional to do our taxes. They can keep democracy up and running. We’re busy.

What kind of relationship do we want our children to have with liberty? What kind of relationship do we intend to have with it ourselves?