From Your Minister
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Letting go can be a spiritual practice. I should know, I’ve been doing it for a while as I prepare to leave CLF. Read more →
REsources for Living
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One of the important things that the CLF does is serve as a teaching congregation, providing an internship or other learning site for people in ministerial formation. Read more →
Audio Resources
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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 →
Chorus of Cells
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Every morning,
even being very old,
(or perhaps because of it),
I like to make my bed.
In fact, the starting of each day unhelplessly
is the biggest thing I ever do. Read more →
Spiritual Practice
July & August 2020
The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it—exactly and completely. —Dainin Katagiri
Articles
Washing Dishes is Not a Spiritual Practice
In college, I majored in Women’s Studies. My sense that I lived in a world that objectified and devalued women was strong. Read more »
Spiritual Practice
I grew up in a music school—that is to say, our home was filled most afternoons and evenings with music teachers and students playing scales and études. Read more »
Repeat Your Spiritual Practice
A spiritual practice is something which you repeat regularly that grounds you in depth and connection. Read more »
Thank You, Meg Riley!
It was sometime in the 1980s. We were at a UU Religious Educators retreat northeast of Minneapolis and I remember my roommate saying from the other twin bed in our room, “Ginger, I think I should let you know I am a lesbian.” Read more »
Meg’s Many Accomplishments
During the ten years of Meg Riley’s leadership as senior minister for the Church of the Larger Fellowship, we have changed and grown in a wide variety of ways. Read more »
From Your Minister
Letting go can be a spiritual practice. I should know, I’ve been doing it for a while as I prepare to leave CLF. Read more »
REsources for Living
One of the important things that the CLF does is serve as a teaching congregation, providing an internship or other learning site for people in ministerial formation. Read more »
Audio Resources
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 »
Chorus of Cells
Every morning, even being very old, (or perhaps because of it), I like to make my bed. In fact, the starting of each day unhelplessly is the biggest thing I ever do. Read more »
Spiritual Practice
The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it—exactly and completely. —Dainin Katagiri Read more »
Living with Integrity
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To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” Read more →
Living with Integrity in a “Post-Truth” World
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There’s a reason why we as a religious people covenant to affirm and promote a free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Read more →
Watertight Integrity
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I learned about risk-taking as a component of integrity in the Navy. Read more →
Integrity’s Blemished Virtue
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Helen was revered as a good person, and I was happy to be her friend. Read more →
The Crooked Timber of Ourselves
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“Finding yourself.” Nearly everyone wants to do it, and many are willing to pay for the trip. Read more →
