From Your Minister
Through the years I have heard people use the word miracle to describe things that I would assign other names: good luck, good medicine, pure chance, hard work. Overall, I’m with the everything is a miracle camp, one of those people who use the word often and mean it.
Read MoreA UU View of Miracles
I have several dozen books about Unitarian Universalism in my home office. I looked through them all, and only three have any kind of entry in their index or table of contents for “miracles.”
Read MoreREsources for Living
It is, I strongly believe, well worth it to make a direct, intensive study of earth-centered spirituality.
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
I have described in earlier columns the deep and abiding joy I felt when I began to read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass.
Read MoreDid You Know?
That you can participate in CLF worship live on Sundays at 8pm Eastern, or archived anytime?
Read More210: UU College of Social Justice Programs with Heather Vickery
2018-02-22 Join our hosts as they chat with Heather Vickery–Senior Associate for Outreach, Enrollment and Administration at the UU College of Social Justice–about all the current and upcoming programs at the UUCSJ. Show notes: Adult Journeys: https://uucsj.org/destinations/ Youth Justice Journeys: https://uucsj.org/youth/ Border Links journey to the US Mexico border: https://uucsj.org/journeys/borderlinks/ Border Witness for Religious Professionals:…
Read MoreThe Spiritual Force to Combat Evil
It was six years into my time at a previous settlement that it happened. I’d fallen in love with the congregation, with its can-do attitude, its involvement in the community, its history of justice work and its music.
Read MoreEvil
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. —Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn
Read More209: Complexities of Civil Discourse with Wendy Von Courter
2018-02-16 In this episode of The VUU our hosts chatted with Rev. Wendy Von Courter about the UU Church of Marblehead’s engagement with the complexities of civil discourse. A deeper examination of the situation Rev. Wendy discusses can be found at the video, The Road to Beloved Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tkI4IUrbHk&feature=youtu.be The VUU is hosted by Meg…
Read MoreFrom dust thou art, and to dust returneth.
I’ve never been quite comfortable with the dryness of this expression.
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