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'A PLACE OF PROMISE' - A message by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar (Humanist Service)

Release Date: 11/10/2019

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All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, OK

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All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, OK

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All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, OK

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All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, OK

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All Souls Unitarian Church, Tulsa, OK

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The message was delivered on Sunday, November 10, 2019, at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by Rev. Dr. Marlin Lavanhar, Senior Minister, at the Humanist Service.

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We promise not because we are all good, but because we all suffer. At the heart of All Souls is a promise we make to each other. In a highly individualistic and materialistic culture like ours, to covenant with others is counter-cultural. Why do we bind our lives with people who are not family and who may be quite different from ourselves? When we show up for each other what happens to our fears, our hopes and our dreams?

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