Articles

Friend
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Friend by Kim K. Crawford Harvie, Senior Minister, Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts Water, shelter, food … and a friend. A friend can save your life. Rev. Dan Kane was cooking, I was washing, and what happened next was definitely my fault, although he says “we” broke it. Drying on the counter was a hand-painted platter that Dan ...Read more »
Standing on the Side of Love
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Standing on the Side of Love by Elizabeth Lerner Maclay, Parish Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring, Maryland May 28th, 2008 was a beautiful day. Tim and I were away on a scuba diving vacation. We went diving that morning and he seemed especially tender in the boat as we were riding back to shore. I ...Read more »
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places Most of us look for love in only the most obvious places, and as a result, most of us come away disappointed. It’s as if we are still grade school kids, counting valentines as a measure of what matters. The love that matters is not typically the subject ...Read more »
Love First
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Love First What we need is a revolution in our values, a revolution that turns our attention more reverently and responsibly to the interdependent, relational character of life. What we need is a spiritual and practical revolution that embodies love for neighbor and for the world through sustaining structures of care and responsibility…. Loving our neighbor implicates ...Read more »
From Your Minister
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From Your Minister      by Meg Riley Senior Minister, Church Of The Larger Fellowship In a book I read years ago, called The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis describes the ancient Greeks’ understanding of love. I think that there are probably dozens of kinds of love—I have been wishing for a new word just to describe how I feel about ...Read more »
REsources for Living
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REsources For Living      by Lynn Ungar, Minister For Lifespan Learning, Church Of The Larger Fellowship What with Valentine’s Day being in February, we decided that this issue of Quest should be on the theme of love. It’s a topic with plenty of room for things to say. For instance, back in 1986 Whitney Houston released a song ...Read more »
Love Dogs
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Love Dogs      by Rumi One night a man was crying, “Allah, Allah!” His lips grew sweet with the praising, until a cynic said, “So! I have heard you calling out, but have you ever gotten any response?” The man had no answer for that. He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep. He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls, in a thick, green ...Read more »