From Your Minister
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I’ve been thinking about renewable sources of energy versus sources of energy that deplete. Read more →
Notice of Annual Meeting
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REsources for Living
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As I see it, there are three words—related but not the same—that apply to the holidays I celebrate this season. Read more →
Renewal is Re-knowing
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Renewal
April 2020
The receding wave does not despair; it knows it will rise again. ―Marty Rubin
Articles
A Renewal of Faith
I’ve known the song Spirit of Life by heart for longer than I can remember. Read more »
Thriving in Difficult Times
Recently a fellow climate change activist exclaimed in despair, “The world has never faced a crisis like this before!” Read more »
Serving Time/Served by Time
When I arrived at North Carolina’s Central Prison I wore my fear and trepidation like an aura as I, a pallid 128-pound weakling, stepped into my worst nightmare. Read more »
Renewal
We are blessed here in Texas to have nearly hundred-year-old live oaks inside our prison. Read more »
From Your Minister
I’ve been thinking about renewable sources of energy versus sources of energy that deplete. Read more »
Notice of Annual Meeting
To all members of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist Read more »
REsources for Living
As I see it, there are three words—related but not the same—that apply to the holidays I celebrate this season. Read more »
The Wisdom Of Trees
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This month we are taking on the gnarly topic of sacrifice. It is a concept that makes many of us uncomfortable, distrustful and a little bit surly, and rightly so. Read more →
American Sacrifice
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Sacrifice is a powerful, ancient, evocative word that conjures images of animals slaughtered in rituals to bind a community together in a celebratory feast for a long-awaited harvest after a drought. Read more →
Always Faithful
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I have learned about faithfulness and sacrifice as a result of a very strange journey I have been on since I inadvertently found some of the men who were in Vietnam with my older brother, 2nd Lt. Robert M. Christian Jr., “Bobby” to me, who was killed on April 11, 1969. Read more →
From Your Minister
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The roots of violence: Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles. Read more →
REsources for Living
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I confess I’ve never been a big fan of the concept of sacrifice. It’s always struck me as kind of punitive, like it’s morally superior to suffer than to enjoy life’s abundance. Read more →
