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 →
From Your Minister
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For years, Biblical scholars have suggested that the real sin condemned in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah was not homosexuality, but inhospitality. Read more →
REsources for Living
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How do you feel when you are about to head off to a party? Excited? Eager? Maybe a little bit anxious? For me, heading off into the midst of a group of people, some of whom I don’t know, always makes me a little jittery. Am I wearing the right thing? Am I bringing the right kind (or amount) of food? Will anyone want to talk with me? If people do want to talk with me, will I say the right things?
Descent into JFK
Nothing Short of Evangelism
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In 1990, a hundred and thirty American and Canadian Unitarian Universalist congregations formed one-to-one covenantal relationships with the same number of Transylvanian Unitarian churches. Later this Partner Church Program widened to involve close to four hundred churches on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more →
Feeding Faith
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Some of my most intense experiences of faith have come at the small window that overlooks a field and a ridge, which I’ve dubbed Freedom Ridge. It is at this prison cell window that I have come face-to-face and, quite literally, nose-to-nose with spiritual teachers that have given me glimpses no human teacher could.
