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Receiving
When I was three or four, my older brother Kevin was in kindergarten. He got to do so many interesting things, while I stayed home.
Read MoreA Gratuitous Duck
Maybe I don’t get out much. But I have always heard the word gratuitous associated with “gratuitous sex and violence” in movies I don’t want to see.
Read MoreGerda’s Raspberry
I stopped at the Holocaust Memorial, something I had previously walked quickly past. Names of hundreds of thousands of survivors towered over me, neatly written on giant plexiglass monuments.
Read MoreDo You Remember When?
The whole time between Thanksgiving and Kwanzaa is filled with days of remembrance. In the weeks around the winter solstice those of us in the Northern Hemisphere remind ourselves that we live in a universe where light will push aside the dark…
Read MorePie with Spirits
This is the very pumpkin pie my grandmother made—almost. She was a modern woman who knew how to follow recipes…
Read MoreTie Tack
There are many relics in our home—objects to which important memories are attached. You probably have some, too.
Read MoreCLF Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
The Church of the Larger Fellowship Nominating Committee seeks CLF members to run for positions on the Board of Directors beginning June 2014.
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
Lately, as my Labrador retriever has been reaching the final days of a long, happy life, I have felt moved to sit with her and share…
Read MoreREsources for Living
What’s your favorite Thanksgiving memory? I think about being a kid, and watching the Thanksgiving Day parade while the house filled with delicious smells…
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
In the dream, I am alone in a round stone tower. I do not want to be there, but I am trapped in its dark, damp, cold, airless space. And then, almost in a whisper, comes a soft voice, Keep looking there is a door. And suddenly the door is there. I can see light, I can walk out. I am not trapped anymore.
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