To Be Seen
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Every particle of the world is a mirror,
In each atom lies the blazing light of a thousand suns.
In the pupil of the eye, an endless heaven.
—Islamic mystic, Mahmud Shabistari Read more →
Hospitality at Our Borders
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There has been a lot of conversation lately in the United States in general, and the world of Unitarian Universalism in particular, about immigration. Read more →
The Fine Art of the Good Guest
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The most important thing that I’ve learned in traveling to more than twenty countries is the art of being a guest. And I’m a particularly fine visitor at the supper table. Read more →
From Your Minister
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For years, Biblical scholars have suggested that the real sin condemned in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah was not homosexuality, but inhospitality. Read more →
REsources for Living
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How do you feel when you are about to head off to a party? Excited? Eager? Maybe a little bit anxious? For me, heading off into the midst of a group of people, some of whom I don’t know, always makes me a little jittery. Am I wearing the right thing? Am I bringing the right kind (or amount) of food? Will anyone want to talk with me? If people do want to talk with me, will I say the right things?
Descent into JFK
Hospitality
January 2012
“Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.” —African Proverb
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To Be Seen
In the pupil of the eye, an endless heaven.The place is India. The religion is Hindu. The woman is old and determined. See her in your mind’s eye. The old woman has walked a long, long way. Her feet blistered and bled days ago, but something within still pushed her forward. Her back bends from ...Read more »
Hospitality at Our Borders
We are all migrants through history, on a journey together that will bring us either to destruction or to a whole new place of possibilities for humanity, the earth, and its inhabitants. The summoning of that longed-for land, with all its promise and the perils of the journey from here to there, is for every ...Read more »
The Fine Art of the Good Guest
We are all visitors—even when we are home. Our time in any relationship or place is ultimately limited. We are passing through; nobody stays forever. How might we act if we consider ourselves guests in the lives of friends and family? Being a good guest is rather simple in principle but occasionally challenging in practice. Read more »
From Your Minister
When Lot welcomed in wandering angels, who were sent to see if the town of Sodom was really as wicked as its reputation, the neighbors demanded that he throw them out of his house. According to many scholars, it is because of their inhospitality to the angels that the town was destroyed. Read more »
REsources for Living
How do you feel when you are about to head off to a party? Excited? Eager? Maybe a little bit anxious? For me, heading off into the midst of a group of people, some of whom I don’t know, always makes me a little jittery. Am I wearing the right thing? Am I bringing the ...Read more »
Descent into JFK
Descent into New York airspace is hard. … Languages crisscross from polyglot to melting pot. As the cabin pressure changes, the world shifts its weight to the other foot. Great care is required now in opening the compartments of the mind. Read more »
Hospitality
“Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.” —African Proverb Read more »
