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Saturday’s Virtual Convention Events
Saturday, June 27 — All times are Listed in Eastern Daylight Time
Facebook (comment-enabled) & Swedenborg.org (view only)
+12:00 PM — Black Lives Matter: A Call to Reflection, Prayer, and Action with Dr. Rebecca Esterson, Terrie Crenshaw, Rev. Gladys Wheaton, Rev. Shada Sullivan, and Rev. Anna Woofenden
+1:00 PM — Memorial Worship Service with Rev. Rachel Madjerac with musical prelude by Rev. Ken Turley
+2:00 PM — Keynote Presentation entitled For Heaven’s Sake by Rev. Dr. George F. Dole with an introduction from Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence, followed by live Q&A
+3:00 PM — Mini-Course: Spiritual Cinema: Swedenborg at the Movies with Dr. Devin Zuber, followed by live Q&A
+4:00 PM — Mini-Course: The Death of God in T.S. Eliot; The Death of the Church in Swedenborg with Rev. Dr. David Fekete, followed by live Q&A
+5:00 PM — Mini-Course: Blessed are the Peacemakers: How You and Your Church Can Successfully Facilitate Political Dialogue in a Polarized Society with Rev. Rich Tafel, followed by live Q&A
+7:00 PM — Swedenborgian Church Youth League Worship Service followed by live Q&A with Youth Leader Kurt Fekete & the SCYL Officers
#Tunesday: “$20 Bill” @tomprasadarao
From his Facebook page:
$20 Bill (for George Floyd) CHART in D 6/8
Intro:
D
4 Bars
Verse 1:
D Dsus D
Some people die for honor
G D
Some people die for love
G D
Some people die while singing
D A
To the heavens above
D Dsus D
Some people die believing
G D
In the cross on Calvary hill
G
And some people die
D
In the blink of an eye
A D Dsus D A
For a $20 bill
D Dsus D A
Verse 2:
D Dsus D
Some people go out in glory
G D
(Yeah) with the wind at their back
G D
Some get to tell their own story
D A
Write their own epitaph
D Dsus D
Sometimes you see it coming
G D
Sometimes you don’t know until
G
You run out of breath
D
With a knee on your neck
A D Dsus D A
For a $20 bill
Bridge:
Bm G D
O Brother, I never knew you
Bm G D
And now I never will
Bm G D
But I, I make this promise to you
Em G A
I’ll remember you still
Verse 3:
D Dsus D
Take, eat – let this be our communion
G D
It’s time to break the bread
G D
Do this in remembrance
D A
Just like the good book said
D Dsus D
Sometimes the wine is a sacrament
G D
Sometimes the blood is just spilled
G
Sometimes the law
D
Is the devils’ last straw
A Bm
The future unfulfilled
A Bm
Like the dream they killed
A D Dsus
For a $20 bill
D Dsus D G D
By Tom Prasada-Rao 5/28/20 Silver Spring MD
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via the NY Times:
On May 25, Minneapolis police officers arrested George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, after a deli employee called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill. Seventeen minutes after the first squad car arrived at the scene, Mr. Floyd was unconscious and pinned beneath three police officers, showing no signs of life.
New Church of Montgomery, in Glendale 