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Sunday Worship: Remembering Well

Remembering Well

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Rev Dr Rosa Hunt and Rev Jamie Washam lead a transatlantic service of remembrance.

Rev Dr Rosa Hunt (Co-principal, Cardiff Baptist College) and Rev Jamie Washam (Pastor, First Baptist Church in America, Rhode Island) lead a transatlantic service of remembrance.

In a transatlantic service of remembrance reflecting on 20 years since 9/11, Baptists Rev Dr Rosa Hunt and Rev Jamie Washam consider how to remember well.

Remembering is an important theme in the Hebrew scriptures. In fact it’s a command: God’s people are told that they must remember well if they are to live well. Paradoxically, remembering well may sometimes mean needing to forget. Memory also shapes our going forward: the heart of remembering well relates to what we do in the present moment. 

This service for Remembrance Sunday joins two sides of the Atlantic, recalling the events of September 11, 2001, along with the innumerable lives affected in the 20 intervening years. It remembers those made refugees in the ensuing decades of conflict; laments lives lost, and stories untold. We're challenged to remember things that must not be forgotten, and ask for grace and wisdom to remember them well.

Baptist hymnody from both sides of the Atlantic includes a hymn written by Roger Williams himself, and much loved Welsh melodies.
Rev Dr Rosa Hunt is Co-principal of Cardiff Baptist College (formerly South Wales Baptist College), an organisation which has been at the heart of Welsh spiritual life since 1807. Rev Jamie Washam is Pastor of First Baptist Church in America, Rhode Island, founded in the 1630s by radical Puritan, Roger Williams.

Producer: Dominic Jewel

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