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Courage
February 2020
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. ―J.K. Rowling
Articles
Take Heart
In her TEDTalk “What Fear Can Teach Us,” novelist Karen Thompson Walker tells us that fear can be understood as an amazing act of the imagination; as an unintentional storytelling that we are born knowing how to do. Read more »
Being Superheroes
We see them on big screens and small ones In comic books and in toy stores Wearing their fancy outfits With capes or masks or armor Read more »
A Courageous Voice
The CLF seeks to be a courageous voice for justice, for growth, for community amongst people who would probably never meet with-out our web that connects lives around the world. Read more »
The Most Courageous Act
As a first grader, Ruby Bridges was part of the first group of students to racially integrate schools in Louisiana. Read more »
Courage for the Resistance…and the Relationships
I was a fearful child. And frankly, most of those fears stayed with me into young adulthood. Read more »
From Your Minister
I have been thinking about the courage I encounter every day in our far-flung religious community. Read more »
GA Delegates Needed
Would you like to represent the Church of the Larger Fellowship at General Assembly (GA) this summer? Read more »
REsources for Living
The other day my dog started doing something odd. Just as I was about to get into bed he shoved himself into the narrow space between the two banks of drawers that hold up my captain’s bed. Read more »
Become a Penpal
The CLF is serving over 1,080 members who are currently incarcerated. Live out our Unitarian Universalist values by becoming a pen pal and sharing letters and words of encouragement with a CLF member behind bars. 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) here. Read more »
Courage
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. ―J.K. Rowling Read more »
Crossing The Threshold
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Perhaps you are familiar with the concept of The Hero’s Journey, made famous by Joseph Campbell. Read more →
On the Threshold
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Thresholds are sacred. Religions of all kinds, cultures of all times and places, have ways to mark the moments when we are on a threshold between one state of being and another. Read more →
Threshold
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Threshold is an interesting word. As a maintenance clerk I immediately thought of the thing at the bottom of a doorway. Read more →
In Between
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In between, liminal, that space where we wait.
Between moments; events, results, action, no action. Read more →
Only in the Dual Realm
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There is a passage from the Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke, that has given me inspiration when confronted by the need to change: Read more →
From Your Minister
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There are predictable thresholds in our lives, when we move from one life-stage to another—when beloved children begin school, when we downsize from a house to an apartment, when we begin a new career or class. Read more →
REsources for Living
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For babies, threshold moments come thick and fast. A first smile moves us into the world of reciprocal relationship. Read more →
Threshold Moments
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There are threshold moments in each of our lives. Moments when the past that lies behind us seems present and real. Read more →
