Spiritual Themes>Freedom and Struggle|Quest Article
Carrying the Language of Freedom
This year what has taken hold of me about Passover is not so much the story itself, but the very fact that the story is reliably told and retold, generation after generation, at the family Seder.
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
In the early 1990s I interned in the Church of the United Community, a tiny storefront congregation in the Marcus Garvey Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts, triple yoked between the United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, and Unitarian Universalists.
Read MoreREsources for Living
The Passover story is, of course, a story about freedom. It’s the story of how the Israelites went from being slaves in Egypt to being free people with a land and a religion of their own. But I wonder when exactly in the story it is that the Hebrew people finally become free.
Read MoreFrom “For Memory”
Freedom. It isn���t once, to walk outunder the Milky Way, feeling the riversof light, the fields of dark…
Read MoreThe Resting Place (Excerpt)
May all nations rise up together and with FireSpirit burn to ashes the Great Anger that separates us.
Read MoreInferno of the Living
I think we are living in an inferno. People acknowledge we are living in an economic crisis, but family, we are in a moral crisis, too.
Read MoreRestoring Justice
These men are facing the shame of being labeled as outcasts and failures by their families and communities. Many of them, however, have also begun a journey on the path toward remorse. Each of them has been confronted with a moment of truth—a moment in which he has had to own up to the pain and suffering he has caused others.
Read MoreJustice Should Be a Thing of the Past
Once individuals were cheated with misleading mortgages Yesterday storms randomly destroyed homes and families suffered alone
Read MoreWomen
Alice Walker has graciously agreed to let us publish her poem, “Women” from Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems in our printed and mailed version of Quest.
Read MoreHands
Hands are fascinating things. I like my hands. I think I have nice hands. My hands seem to have a lot of character.
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