Awake in the Dark
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I have been lying awake in the dark a lot lately. I lie there, really hoping to go back to sleep, wishing there was some way to forget what I know. But the darkness keeps calling me. Read more →
Resistors and Capacitors
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Our CLF community around the world is full of “resistors” and “capacitors”: people committed to resisting injustice and people committed to increasing the capacity of individuals and communities to respond with compassion and love in a difficult world. Read more →
Disobeying Herod
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While we tend to think of the Three Wise Men as part of the Christmas story, Epiphany—a holiday honoring the visitation of the Magi—is celebrated in January. Read more →
Resistance as Prophecy
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One of the most powerful images I have encountered to describe the symbolic location of the prophet is Richard Rohr’s concept of living on the outside edge of the inside. Read more →
From Your Minister
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There are many ways to resist. Some folks are in the streets or other strategic places, engaged in direct actions to shut down oppressive systems, and that kind of resistance is getting a lot of attention these days—for good reason! Read more →
REsources for Living
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One of the important ways of understanding this month’s theme of resistance is in terms of resisting injustice, or fighting back against the powers of evil, like the Resistance in the Star Wars movies. Read more →
Did You Know
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…that you can read blog posts from our ministers Meg and Lynn, as well as other UUs, on our website at www.clfuu.org?
When Resistance is Futile
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The term resistance is a highly charged word for any prisoner. Read more →
Resistance
January 2018
Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once. —Virginia Woolf
Articles
Awake in the Dark
I have been lying awake in the dark a lot lately. I lie there, really hoping to go back to sleep, wishing there was some way to forget what I know. But the darkness keeps calling me. Read more »
Resistors and Capacitors
Our CLF community around the world is full of “resistors” and “capacitors”: people committed to resisting injustice and people committed to increasing the capacity of individuals and communities to respond with compassion and love in a difficult world. Read more »
Disobeying Herod
While we tend to think of the Three Wise Men as part of the Christmas story, Epiphany—a holiday honoring the visitation of the Magi—is celebrated in January. Read more »
Resistance as Prophecy
One of the most powerful images I have encountered to describe the symbolic location of the prophet is Richard Rohr’s concept of living on the outside edge of the inside. Read more »
From Your Minister
There are many ways to resist. Some folks are in the streets or other strategic places, engaged in direct actions to shut down oppressive systems, and that kind of resistance is getting a lot of attention these days—for good reason! Read more »
REsources for Living
One of the important ways of understanding this month’s theme of resistance is in terms of resisting injustice, or fighting back against the powers of evil, like the Resistance in the Star Wars movies. Read more »
Did You Know
…that you can read blog posts from our ministers Meg and Lynn, as well as other UUs, on our website at www.clfuu.org? Read more »
When Resistance is Futile
The term resistance is a highly charged word for any prisoner. Read more »
Resistance
Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once. —Virginia Woolf Read more »
8 Modes of Resistance for These Times
The natural response to seeing video or photos of an angry mob carrying torches and shouting racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay slogans is a sense of revulsion, and perhaps even panic. These are people who are the philosophical descendants of the folks who killed six million “unacceptable” people. And most of us know that we and/or people we love are amongst the unacceptable. We feel threatened, because we are threatened.
And when we feel threatened, our natural response is fight or flight. Our guts tell us to run away or to engage in combat. That’s our native, instinctual response. But you know who else is operating out of an instinctual response? These white men who feel a loss of power and privilege in our increasingly diverse society and fight back with a testosterone-filled fury against the perceived threats to their “right” to power and privilege. They are, of course, horrifically wrong, but they are going with their guts.
We need to respond, but we need to respond with the full weight of our minds and hearts and spirits as well as our guts. Read more →