REsources for Living
You’re standing there in the cold, waiting for the bus to come, and every minute feels like an hour. You’re waiting for the phone call that will give you the results of a medical test…
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…
Read MoreSaved by Love (Excerpt)
The first time I attended a Unitarian Universalist church for worship, I was greeted by an incredible sight: 75 percent of the people in the congregation were wearing pink triangles on their name tags. I didn’t know what to make of it. I thought I’d died and gone to some sort of queer heaven.
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
When we were kids, we were all supposed to have favorites of everything. Remember that? People would say, for instance, What is your favorite color? And I would always feel completely stumped.
Read MoreREsources for Living
Are you saved? It’s a question most of us have heard, whether the person asking has appeared at our door carrying pamphlets or is a friend who wants to talk about religion on the playground.
Read MoreSalvation
By what are you saved? And how?Saved like a bit of string,tucked away in a drawer?
Read MoreA God We Can Believe In
At home on a bookshelf we have a massive folio-style slipcover book titled Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Albertus Seba, a pharmacist in eighteenth-century Amsterdam.
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