The Sacrifices You Make
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For many of our CLF members, their support is truly a sacrifice—not only members on fixed incomes who give what they can, but also our incarcerated members, for whom even the price of a stamp to write to a pen pal is a significant sacrifice. Read more →
Audio Recordings
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Food Chain
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Give up pretending.
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everything, sooner or later
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Sacrifice
October 2019
You can sacrifice and not love but you cannot love and not sacrifice. ―Kris Vallotton
Articles
The Wisdom Of Trees
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
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
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
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
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 »
The Sacrifices You Make
For many of our CLF members, their support is truly a sacrifice—not only members on fixed incomes who give what they can, but also our incarcerated members, for whom even the price of a stamp to write to a pen pal is a significant sacrifice. Read more »
Audio Recordings
You can listen to audio recordings of Quest Monthly, read back issues or get electronic versions of the text to share with friends (and much more) at questformeaning.org Read more »
Food Chain
Give up pretending. Everything, you know, everything, sooner or later gets eaten… Read more »
Sacrifice
You can sacrifice and not love but you cannot love and not sacrifice. ―Kris Vallotton Read more »
Passing
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Have you watched any of those shows on PBS that trace the genealogies and DNA of famous people? Read more →
Coming Out
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I would have told you with complete certainty and utter sincerity that I was straight, right up until the first time I was seriously attracted to a woman. Read more →
Who Am I?
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If asked to answer the question Who am I? how would you answer? Read more →
From Your Minister
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Some identities, like being a student or a resident in a particular place, come and go. Read more →
REsources for Living
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“Who are you?” the caterpillar asks Alice in Alice in Wonderland. It turns out that is a surprisingly difficult question to answer. Read more →
Ever-Deepening Identity
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Unitarian Universalists understand religious and spiritual identity to be something that unfolds over time as we learn and grow. Read more →
