March 10, 2019

Waldo Emerson’s Obsession: Give All To Love

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) asked a lot of questions of those who claimed to be the voice of God in nineteenth-century America. He found religion stale, with adherents living vicariously through the real-time faith encounters of previous generations, those who actually “beheld God and nature face to face.” Ralph Waldo soon determined to settle for nothing less than a fresh anointing, a genuine encounter with all that is holy. His questions: “Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?” “Why should not we also have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?” Today these will be our questions too. Service led by Rev. Gregory Stewart. All Ages Worship at 9:15. Religious Education classes begin downstairs.