"What Moves Us to Move?" Special Music Service

Inspired by the 2011 march to save historic Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia from mountaintop removal and by the Arab spring that toppled dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia, Andrew explores the powerful forces that stir us to move and ponders the question, "in our linked, instantaneous wireless world, what would it take to move a million people into the streets of Washington?" We are moved by many things we see in life and online, but what moves us to the street to march for justice, to our desk to write our legislators, or simply to the aid of a stranger in need? As we contemplate the changes that we hope and work for in the world, Andrew’s words and music explore how and why each of us is fanned to flame by different sparks.

SUGGESTED READINGS (from "Singing the Living Tradition"):
Opening words: 442
Responsive or unison readings: 658, 440, 483
Closing words: 457, 560