Articles

The Adventure of Creativity
Rev. Roger Bertschausen
The main point of the sermon was that I really don’t care whether there is a shred of historical truth in the story of Jesus. What I care about is that it’s a good story, and it contains truths about life—about how to live my life. Read more »
The Garden of Eden
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman
I was nine or ten when my mother gave me permission to plant and tend my first garden. She was a gardener too. In addition to ten children, my mother raised several lavish beds of exquisite purple and gold irises. I’ve associated irises with her ever since, and so they’ve always been my favorite ...Read more »
Where I Come From is Like This
Rev. Meg Barnhouse
When I was twenty-three, I felt myself skating over the surface of my life. So focused on who I was, I wasn’t paying attention to where I was. Beauties would pass me by. I would find my mind in tomorrow already, not noticing today. Read more »
From Your Minister
Rev. Meg Riley
Thomas King poses those questions after sharing a completely different kind of creation story than Genesis, a Native American story involving mud and rain and animals and humans and deities, all engaged in the messy process of co-creating a world of balance and connection and ongoing, meaningful relationships which are fraught with conflict. Read more »
REsources for Living
Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar
It seems that for as long as we’ve had people, we’ve had stories of creation. As human beings we like to have an explanation of where we come from and why things are the way they are. The world is created through the splitting of a great cosmic egg, or a great cosmic monster. Read more »
Another Kind of Knowledge
Contributing Writer
I believe there is only one power, one shaping urge, but I also believe that it infuses everything the glistening track of the snail along with the gleaming eye of the fawn, the grain in the oak, the froth on the creek, the coiled proteins in my blood and in yours, the mind that strings ...Read more »