Podcast: Download (Duration: 11:47 — 10.8MB)
Subscribe: More
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 →
Podcast: Download (Duration: 16:46 — 15.4MB)
Subscribe: More
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 →
Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:18 — 4.9MB)
Subscribe: More
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 →
Podcast: Download (Duration: 6:20 — 5.8MB)
Subscribe: More
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 →
Podcast: Download (Duration: 5:32 — 5.1MB)
Subscribe: More
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 →
Podcast: Download (Duration: 0:33 — 525.1KB)
Subscribe: More
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 →
Podcast: Download (Duration: 0:12 — 201.5KB)
Subscribe: More
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 →
Podcast: Download (Duration: 0:59 — 928.1KB)
Subscribe: More
Give up pretending.
Everything, you know,
everything, sooner or later
gets eaten. Little fish, Read more →
October 2019
You can sacrifice and not love but you cannot love and not sacrifice. ―Kris Vallotton
Can you give $5 or more to sustain the ministries of the Church of the Larger Fellowship?
If preferred, you can text amount to give to 84-321
Quest for Meaning is a program of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF).
As a Unitarian Universalist congregation with no geographical boundary, the CLF creates global spiritual community, rooted in profound love, which cultivates wonder, imagination, and the courage to act.