REsources for Living
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Are you a fan of the “Transformers” action figures or movies? I’m not really into either action figures or action movies myself, but I have to admit there’s something kind of appealing about anything that can turn itself into a whole different thing. Read more →
Spring
How deep our sleep last night in the mountain’s heart, beneath the trees and stars, hushed by solemn-sounding waterfalls and many small soothing voices in sweet accord whispering peace!What’s Broken is Brilliant
How Does Our Faith Hold Brokenness?
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In Duluth, Minnesota, in the center of the city, there is a statue of three young men, college-aged, strong and hopeful, looking out of the stone toward the world. On a summer night in 1920, not so very long ago, these three—Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton, and Elmer Jackson—were lynched there by a mob that may have numbered as many as ten thousand people. Read more →
From Your Minister
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As I follow the news of upheaval that appears to be escalating daily—collapsing political and economic systems, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados and floods—and as I interact with many people whose lives are affected by those bigger systems, here’s what I’ve been wondering. Read more →
REsources for Living
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Unitarian Universalists tend to be pretty upbeat about human nature. We remind ourselves of each person’s “inherent worth and dignity,” and rather than baptizing babies (to cleanse them of original sin), we welcome young ones with rituals that affirm that we’re delighted to have them exactly as they are. Read more →
The Cup of Our Life
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it is time for me
to see the flaws
of myself
and stop
being alarmed Read more →
To Be Seen
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Every particle of the world is a mirror,
In each atom lies the blazing light of a thousand suns.
In the pupil of the eye, an endless heaven.
—Islamic mystic, Mahmud Shabistari Read more →
Hospitality at Our Borders
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There has been a lot of conversation lately in the United States in general, and the world of Unitarian Universalism in particular, about immigration. Read more →
The Fine Art of the Good Guest
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The most important thing that I’ve learned in traveling to more than twenty countries is the art of being a guest. And I’m a particularly fine visitor at the supper table. Read more →
