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Opportunities to Journey
“The only journey is the one within.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
Read MoreMap of the Journey in Progress
Here is where I found my voice and chose to be brave.
Read MorePilgrims Always
At core, we Unitarian Universalists are wonderers and wanderers; pilgrim seems to capture the balance of focused aim and fluid adventure so integral to Unitarian Universalism.
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
When I was a young adult, my inner and outer life resembled a Taoist poem I had memorized (and now only partly remember). It began, “There’s no path in front of you; that’s the track of your own foot…” and ended, “I speak of the road the butterfly cuts.”
Read MoreREsources for Living
Have you ever really thought about why we call those early settlers who came to New England seeking religious freedom “Pilgrims”?
Read MoreDid You Know…
…that the CLF sponsors a blog page for UUs on the religion and spirituality site patheos.com?
Read MoreIn the Fog
The wet air curls against me as I sit in the boat without seeing through the fog. I’m without my bearings, lost between the elements of air and water.
Read MoreDragged Kicking and Screaming into Heaven
Have you ever heard a Unitarian Universalist speak of having had a conversion experience? Have you had such an experience?
Read MoreSalvation: Saved from What?
But my life has not convinced me that Hell consists of simply bad intentions in the mind, selfishness and a hard heart. I am sure that some of these problems contribute to the building up of Hells on this earth, but in my experience people don’t just need to be saved from their minds, but from their conditions and situations.
Read MoreAn African American Perspective on Salvation
It is of enormous significance that for centuries, countless African American Christians have affirmed ‘Salvation’ as vitally connected with spaciousness, deliverance, rescue, liberation or freedom…. [I]n the African American experience, the nature of salvation is to provide space— psychic, physical and spiritual—in which to function as a free being…
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