The Power of Lament — An Interfaith Conversation on Public Lamentation in Religious Tradition, and How It Might Help America Today
Rev. Cecily Broderick y Guerra, Rev. George Dietrich, Rev. Kimberly Quinn Johnson, and Rabbi Jan Uhrbach explore the role of public lament in each of our traditions.
Many religious traditions observe periods of ritualized public lamentation, a counter-cultural practice in contemporary America. Secular society offers contexts for public protest, and for memorializing those killed in battle. We're especially good at public airings of anger and grievance. But public lament seems to have fallen by the wayside.
What do we do with the Book of Lamentations and the prophecy of Jeremiah, sacred scripture to both Christians and Jews? What function do those books serve theologically, emotionally, societally, politically? What happens when a society can’t or won’t acknowledge and grieve loss together? How might lamenting together help us heal some of our anger, woundedness and division?
Free. People of all religious and secular beliefs and faiths welcome.
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Co-sponsored by
Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor
Gesher | The Bridge Shul, Bridgehampton
Hamptons Lutheran Parish, Amagansett and Bridgehampton
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork, Sag Harbor/Bridgehampton
