Turn the Volume Up: The Ends of Resistance
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
January 18, 2026
Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Marlene Bottenfield, Worship Associate
Resistance in social-political spheres is often rooted in trying to keep things as they are or getting things back to where they were, a kind of “restorative resistance” that ultimately bolsters the status quo. This Dr. Martin Luther King weekend, we’ll ask ourselves and our religious tradition what it might mean to dream of building new worlds, rather than merely reforming the old.
Song for Gathering The Tide is Rising by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman and Yotam Schachter
Lighting of the Chalice Bearers of Hope & Resistance by Rev. Michelle Collins, read by Jim Perkins
Reading/Meditation Ant Survival & the Work of Carrying Each Other by Rev. Michelle Collins
Greeting One Another
Wonder Box & Singing the Children on Their Way
Welcome & Opening Words Marlene Bottenfield, Worship Associate
Land Acknowledgement Susan Merrill
Song Turn the Volume Up by Lea Morris
Sermon/Message Turn the Volume Up: The Ends of Resistance Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Joys & Sorrows
Music More Than Ever by Lea Morris
Offering
Offertory Linda Snyder, piano
Dedication
Thank you & Announcements
Closing Song Come and Go With Me #1018 African American spiritual from the period of slavery
Closing Words The World is Waiting by Rev. Michelle Collins
Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice
Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.
Music for Going Forth