”Unboxing” day

An address by Aaron Poeze, a member of our congregation - recorded on Sunday, 17th March, 2019 at The Unitarian Meeting House in Adelaide, two days after the massacres at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques, Christchurch. Aaron looks at the dangers of simplistically stereotyping and prejudging others - the beginnings of xenophobia - where differences are seen as deficits. Aaron invites us to reflect on the lables or stereotypes - the "boxes" - we may have been placed in and thereby confined by others. He also invites us to reflect those we may also have placed in boxes and invites us to free them from the boxes in which they have been confined.