Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
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From the CLF Nominating Committee: Cathy Chang, Jordinn Nelson Long, Diana Smith, Aisha Ansano
The CLF’s Nominating Committee seeks members to run for positions beginning June 2020: Read more →
Audio Resources
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Praise the Sun, the Moon, the Stars
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Praise the sun, the moon, the stars,
Praise the ant, the tree, the shining leaf.
Praise every child large and small,
Praise the one within us all.
Praise the swimmers, crawlers, and creepers.
Praise the flower and the winding weed,
Praise each blade of grass and every dewdrop.
Praise dark moist earth.
Praise rock, sand, and shoal. Praise wind—nature’s breath.
Praise those with fin, fur, and finger, Praise the winged ones, the tiny ones,
and all the ones that live unseen.
Praise brightest morning and darkest night. Praise the prickly and the unpopular.
Praise the crow’s cry and the beggar’s sigh.
Praise the dancers, the doers and the dreamers.
Praise those that give, those who love,
and those who heal.
Praise to wanderers, weavers and seekers.
Praise sounds of thunder, crashing waves,
and shouts for justice. Praise silence.
Praise spirit. Praise all colors.
Praise all acts of compassion.
Praise all. Praise all. Praise all.
Thanks and Praise
November 2019
Praise, my dear one. Let us disappear into praising. Nothing belongs to us. ―Rainer Maria Rilke
Articles
Grateful
There is a large duckling-yellow hardcover book in my mother’s house called a “baby book.” It is my baby book, in fact. Read more »
Giving Thanks
There’s an old joke—perhaps you’ve heard it. A man and his granddaughter are walking along a beach… Read more »
In Praise of Weeds
Pity the poor dandelion. It is, in many ways, nature’s perfect plant. Read more »
Thanks and Praise
Thanks and Praise is is exactly what we have for all of our wonderful CLF members and supporters who contribute so that CLF can be there for religious liberals around the world. Read more »
From Your Minister
Alice Walker has been in the media in some pretty awful ways, but I still think her book, The Color Purple, is one of the most extraordinary theological texts I’ve ever read. Read more »
REsources for Living
Alice Walker has been in the media in some pretty awful ways, but I still think her book, The Color Purple, is one of the most extraordinary theological texts I’ve ever read. Read more »
Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
The CLF’s Nominating Committee seeks members to run for positions beginning June 2020. 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 »
Praise the Sun, the Moon, the Stars
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 »
Thanks and Praise
Praise, my dear one. Let us disappear into praising. Nothing belongs to us. ―Rainer Maria Rilke 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 →
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 →
