A Sacred Act
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How do we live in honorable relationship with the other beings who share our planet? Read more →
The Way Your Dog Lies Down
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Lie down on the grass with your dog
the way your dog lies down, Read more →
The CLF Invites GA Delegates
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Would you like to represent the Church of the Larger Fellowship at General Assembly (GA) this summer? Read more →
From Your Minister
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I have described in earlier columns the deep and abiding joy I felt when I began to read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass. Read more →
REsources for Living
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It is, I strongly believe, well worth it to make a direct, intensive study of earth-centered spirituality. Read more →
Did You Know?
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That you can participate in CLF worship live on Sundays at 8pm Eastern, or archived anytime? Read more →
From dust thou art, and to dust returneth.
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I’ve never been quite comfortable with the dryness of this expression. Read more →
Earth
February 2018
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. —Marshall McLuhan
Articles
Noah’s Ark
Those of you who went to Sunday school or Hebrew school when you were kids may have happy images in your head of Noah and the Ark… Read more »
To Praise the Earth
We gather to praise the Earth, to honor the soil, the sea, the swimmers and crawlers, the four-leggeds and the winged ones… Read more »
Dear Mother Earth
Dear Mother Earth, You are the great Earth, you are Terra, you are Gaia; you are this infinitely beautiful blue planet. Read more »
I am a Denizen of the Earth
On Christmas Day, 1832, Ralph Waldo Emerson, newly resigned from the burdensome constraints of ministry, rather impulsively boarded a freighter bound for Malta. He had declared in writing: “I will not see with others’ eyes…. I would be free.” Read more »
Strives to Inspire
The CLF strives to inspire all to embrace the power of purpose and love here on earth. Read more »
A Sacred Act
How do we live in honorable relationship with the other beings who share our planet? Read more »
The Way Your Dog Lies Down
Lie down on the grass with your dog the way your dog lies down… Read more »
The CLF Invites GA Delegates
Would you like to represent the Church of the Larger Fellowship at General Assembly (GA) this summer? Read more »
From Your Minister
I have described in earlier columns the deep and abiding joy I felt when I began to read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass. Read more »
REsources for Living
It is, I strongly believe, well worth it to make a direct, intensive study of earth-centered spirituality. Read more »
Did You Know?
That you can participate in CLF worship live on Sundays at 8pm Eastern, or archived anytime? Read more »
From dust thou art, and to dust returneth.
I’ve never been quite comfortable with the dryness of this expression. Read more »
Where Are We Going?
Join with friends or family to sing this round to celebrate life’s mystery together.
Here are the three parts:
First part: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Second part: Where do we come from?
Third part: Mystery, mystery, life is a riddle and a mystery!
Listen to the video below to learn the melodies with the Orange County Unitarian Universalist Choir.
To hear hundreds of UUs singing this song at General Assembly 2008, watch the first few minutes of this video from morning worship with Rev. Fred Muir.
The lyrics to this song come from the title of one of artist Paul Gaugin’s paintings (you can see the words from the first part of the round, written in French, in the upper left-hand corner):
Paul Gauguin – D’ou venons-nous (1896) Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Song credit: “Where Do We Come From?” by Brian Tate, as included in the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Singing the Journey: A Supplement to Singing the Living Tradition. Copyright 1999 by Brian Tate.
