People Ask About God (Excerpt)
People go astray in their search for God because they do not take the right starting-point. We should never begin by asking, “Is there a God?”– as though God could be something outside of ordinary experience; or, to put it in the old-fashioned way, something outside of Nature.
Read MoreIf I Were Asked
If I were asked to confess my faith or my beliefs out loud, and I were scrambling for some place to begin, I would start in the desert, in the lonesome valley, and say that first of all and ultimately we are alone.
Read MoreSun/God
Your missionary ancestors told Indian people that they were worshipping a false god when we prayed to the sun. The sun is the most powerful physical presence in our lives.
Read MoreA Prayer
World that is my home,Spirit that matters,Speak to me in the voices of Ralph Waldo Emerson,yes, and Florence Nightingale…
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
What, I ask myself, does it take to live in at-one-ment? I can imagine the road I need to travel from where I am now to a place of living in at-one-ment with myself, with my friends and family, with my neighbors, with the world…
Read MoreJerusalem
I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in people getting over it.
Read MoreREsources for Living
Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, many be the source of one of the most…um…surprising religious traditions I know of. Surprising, as in a nice way of saying downright strange.
Read MorePillar of Salt (Excerpt)
Speak out the paralyzing secret and begin to come back to yourself.
Read MoreStreets to Dwell In
I trust that most of you remember Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood, perhaps as well as I do. Mr. Rogers knew his neighbors—people who dropped by his home all the time to share some useful tidbit of information.
Read MorePledging Our Troth
As a religious heritage bonded not by creed, confession or common prayer, but by covenant, Unitarian Universalists vow to stay at the table long enough to understand one another and mold a viable community.
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