Posts Tagged ‘covenant|quest-magazine-2017-03’

I often wonder if there is much more going on with free will than meets the eye, especially when it comes to finding and joining a spiritual community.

I’ve been going lately to choir rehearsals in a classroom at a school for the arts, so I’ve had a chance to read the posters on the front wall.

…that you can read blog posts from UUs, including CLF ministers Meg Riley and Lynn Ungar ?

Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our posterity, is to followe the counsell of Micah, to doe justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God.

A number of years ago, I was the guest preacher at one of our small congregations in northern New England.

My seminary classmate was 30 years older than me. I sat in his small apartment, hoping for the kind of wisdom and guidance I had already come to know he might provide.

Our liberal religious covenant… is to trust one another enough… to seek help when we’re down and to offer assistance when we’re able.

A covenant is not a contract. It is not made and signed and sealed once and for all, sent to the attorneys for safekeeping or guarded under glass in a museum.

We are being invited into a place where we move from an idea to an experience.