Remembering Knoxville

Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence

Brit Albritton and David A. Mix Barrington

3 August 2008

These are materials for the lay-led summer service that Brit and I presented on 3 August 2008. The scheduled speaker, Rev. Karen Harris, had to cancel because of an unexpected delay in the birth of her granddaughter, as she explained in a letter to the congregation that was read in the service. Brit and I originally planned a short "place-holder" service, but we were faced with the need to respond to the tragic murders at the Tennessee Valley UU Church in Knoxville. With the help of cellist Kivie Cahn-Lipman and others, we put together a full service on very short notice.

• The order of meeting,
• A letter from UUA moderator Gini Courter, which served as our opening words
• A letter to the congregation from our originally scheduled speaker, Rev. Karen Harris
• The first reading, excerpted from the immediate coverage in the Knoxville News Sentinel
• The second reading, from an interview in the UU World with John Bohstedt, one of those who subdued the shooter
• The third reading, from a response to the above news story on the News Sentinel website, from TVUUC member Kenneth McDonald
• The fourth reading, from Ethics For The New Millenium by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• My reflections
• Brit's reflections

Last modified 7 August 2008