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From Your Minister
From my perspective these UU military chaplains are some of the most amazing advocates for justice in our movement. Every day, every hour, they are standing up for humanity instead of dehumanization, names instead of numbers, fair treatment and equality for all of those they serve.
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What is justice? That seems like a reasonable question for a month when justice is our theme. We know that Unitarian Universalists think that justice is important. After all, our second principle is justice, equity and compassion in human relations.
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According to Joshua Friedman, an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago, “All the visible world that we see around us is just the tip of the iceberg.”…
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Have you seen the musical Into the Woods? It’s a Broadway show in which a variety of storybook characters—Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack (of the Beanstalk), etc.—meet up together in an adventure in the woods,..
Read MoreLooking For a Sunset Bird in Winter
The west was getting out of gold, The breath of air had died of cold,When shoeing home across the white, I thought I saw a bird alight.
Read MoreYou Are the Light of the World
“Make of yourself a light,” said the Buddha upon his death. Like Jesus, he knew that he was light, and people were drawn to him.
Read MoreHope: The Theology of Despair
The truth is that I am not an authority on hope. Until recently I didn’t even know what hope was: I thought it was something akin to a wish, a pipedream.
Read MoreHope and Sorrow
I had a very different sermon prepared for Christmas Eve, and I tossed it just a few hours before the service rolled around. A more sparkling, effervescent sermon, it was.
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