Did You Know?
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…that you can read blog posts from UUs, including CLF ministers Meg Riley and Lynn Ungar ? Read more →
City Upon a Hill
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Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our posterity, is to followe the counsell of Micah, to doe justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. Read more →
Covenant
March 2017
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy… deathless song in the house of night. —Leonard Cohen
Articles
Thus Do We Covenant…
A number of years ago, I was the guest preacher at one of our small congregations in northern New England. Read more »
The Covenants We Keep
My seminary classmate was 30 years older than me. I sat in his small apartment, hoping for the kind of wisdom and guidance I had already come to know he might provide. Read more »
For All Those Who Seek Help
Our liberal religious covenant… is to trust one another enough… to seek help when we’re down and to offer assistance when we’re able. Read more »
Bound in Covenant (Excerpt)
A covenant is not a contract. It is not made and signed and sealed once and for all, sent to the attorneys for safekeeping or guarded under glass in a museum. Read more »
In the Presence of God and One Another (Excerpt)
We are being invited into a place where we move from an idea to an experience. Read more »
From Your Guest Minister
I often wonder if there is much more going on with free will than meets the eye, especially when it comes to finding and joining a spiritual community. Read more »
REsources for Living
I’ve been going lately to choir rehearsals in a classroom at a school for the arts, so I’ve had a chance to read the posters on the front wall. Read more »
Did You Know?
…that you can read blog posts from UUs, including CLF ministers Meg Riley and Lynn Ungar ? Read more »
City Upon a Hill
Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our posterity, is to followe the counsell of Micah, to doe justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. Read more »
Covenant
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy… deathless song in the house of night. —Leonard Cohen Read more »
Your Body is Your Body
The chorus of this song by Peter Alsop is “My body’s nobody’s body but mine. You’ve got your own body, let me run mine!” It’s a good little bit of song to keep in your head for times when someone else seems to think that your body should look or act a different way than what is right for you.
All Bodies Need Care
Clara Barton learned in the Universalist church she was raised in that God is love, and that all lives are precious. As she grew up she took those lessons seriously, recognizing that we are called to care for people’s bodies, not just their souls.
Clara Barton cared for bodies as well as souls.
Clara Barton became a teacher, but when the Civil War broke out she was horrified to learn that food and medical supplies weren’t getting to the soldiers, and that many suffered and even died for lack of food, water, and treatment for their injuries.
Although people at the time didn’t think women were strong enough to handle being in the midst of war, Clara raised money for supplies, and snuck in at midnight to a battlefield in Virginia, where she set about cooking food and treating the injured. She even learned how to remove a bullet from a person using just a pen knife!
Clara Barton cared for soldiers from both sides at 14 battle sites. And when the war was over, she was the person who founded the American Red Cross, bringing to the United States the idea of an organization that would care for all people in a crisis, restoring safety and health to bodies.
Rise in Body or in Spirit
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It was never my goal to become an elder. Over the years I have looked at older men, older than I am, and thought: Someday that might be me. Read more →
Uses of the Erotic
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You run into interesting conundrums in church life. For instance, in planning readings for a Valentine’s Day service that honors the erotic, you find that it’s not at all hard to locate some pretty great erotic poems; it’s just a challenge to come up with ones that you can read aloud in church. Read more →
Inhabiting Ourselves (Excerpt)
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Have you ever had an alien invade your body? Read more →
The Least Embodied Church
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The CLF is perhaps the least embodied church you will ever find. Read more →
