Always in Beta
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The unofficial CLF motto is “Always in beta.” We’re not afraid to make change within our own organization, and we are deeply committed to making positive change in the larger world. Read more →
Making Change
September 2018
Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world. —Terry Prachett
Articles
In the Midst of It All
Some years ago I had the opportunity to work with a youth group to plan their annual worship service. They had a great theme in mind, all about voices. Read more »
Transmogrified
I first learned the word “transmogrified” from the cartoon Calvin and Hobbes. Read more »
Revolutionary Love
When I gave birth to my daughter, I had already been laboring for days—not hours, but days. Read more »
From Your Minister
When I was a kid, it seemed like magic. My mother would take a piece of fabric and somehow bewitch it, so that it became a shirt, or a pair of shorts, or a dress for me to wear. Read more »
Audio Recordings
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Always Being Made
We are beginning to understand that the world is always being made and never finished… Read more »
Always in Beta
The unofficial CLF motto is “Always in beta.” We’re not afraid to make change within our own organization, and we are deeply committed to making positive change in the larger world. Read more »
Making Change
Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world. —Terry Prachett Read more »
A Wholehearted Sabbath
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It was August 21st of last year when something out of the ordinary happened. Schools closed. People took off from work early, or even the whole day if they could. Read more →
Space of Renewal
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Sabbath opens up a space of renewal and spiritual sustenance. We hope that the CLF provides that for you through Quest Monthly, our online worship, daily reflections from the Daily Compass and more. Read more →
The Ritual of Sabbath
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I fell in love with the Sabbath many years ago when my work took me to Israel. Until then, I’d never thought much about the Sabbath, except to be annoyed when stores were closed on Sunday and I needed to buy something. Read more →
Vacation as Spiritual Discipline
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A series in the Cathy comic strip about vacationing caught my eye, perhaps because it was really about the opposite. Read more →
From Your Minister
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Years ago, I directed the UUA’s Washington Office. It was a challenging time in U.S. history, marked by the passage of the civil-rights-denying Patriot Act, pompous patriotic righteousness about the need to attack Iraq, support for fundamentalist Christian-style “family values,” and endless attacks on vulnerable communities. Read more →
REsources for Living
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A few years ago, various members of the CLF staff were talking about taking a social media Sabbath for one day a week, and shared things like the graphics they would post to Facebook letting people know that they were unavailable for the day. Read more →
Did You Know?
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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 →
Adjacent to Eternity
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[One] who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. Read more →
