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.

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From 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.

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REsources 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.

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Inferno 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.

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Restoring 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.

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Women

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.

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Hands

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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