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- Having a Goal
- Me, when pressed I can hold still for long periods of time...
Posted on Monkey Mind (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - IS AMERICA ISLAMOPHOBIC?
- This question on the cover of Time magazine* seems irrelevant to me. The question really is: IS AMERICA FOR FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR NOT? Thomas Jefferson said, "If the freedom of religion, guarantee...
Posted on A Curious UU (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Adult Religious Education Classes for Wednesday, September 8, at 7 p.m.
- Genesis as a Spiritual Text, with Cindi Brown, in the Fireside Room. Click on title of post for class description.
Posted on FUUN Blog (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Thursday stuff
- Tibetan exiles are claiming today is their 50th Democracy Day, but that's a retcon. As I noted in the 48th Tibetan Democracy Day?, "Democracy Day" wasn't announced until 1975, after the CIA stopped...
Posted on it's all one thing (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Talkin' Football: A Labor Day Ministry...of sorts
- When I began the "football predictions" thing about six years ago, I saw it as a ministry to my fellow nerds. Still do. Available in this condensed form is enough talking points for people trappe...
Posted on The Burbania Posts (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - The Unfair, Unwarranted, Unbelievable Passage of Time
- My husband George and I are going to the beach on Friday for the week, and during that time we'll be celebrating our first wedding anniversary. How can that be? It still feels strange to call Geo...
Posted on Marilyn Sewell (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Huzzah!
- Feds sue Joe Arpaio. Huzzah, indeed! Print PDF
Posted on Returning . . . (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - UUA General Assembly surpasses its green goals
- A report from the Minneapolis Convention Center—the site of this summer’s UUA General Assembly—highlights GA’s successful environmental initiatives. No waste from the five-day convention ended up i...
Posted on uuworld.org : General Assembly (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - It Wasn't My Day
- Yesterday was my husbands 45th birthday and I had planned to take him out to dinner and then to the County Fair. At 5:15, after waking up from a much needed nap, he let me know that wasn't what he...
Posted on MoxieLife (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Digging My Way Out
- My children went out of town for a week. A week! That is longer than I've ever been away from any of them in their lives. It has been pretty strange. But, they are all back now, and we're just fini...
Posted on Grassroots Homeschool (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Many Joining Hands in Action: Thanking Our Volunteers and Interns
- Posted on UUSC Master Feed (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010
- The Healing Power of Hugs
- I’m just returned from my vacation at Gay Spirit Camp at Easton Mountain, and am in that phase of trying to reintegrate myself back into my life here, but also integrate the special things I got fr...
Posted on The Spirit/Work Connection (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Hawking speaks out of turn
- Stephen Hawking writes that "It is not necessary to invoke God [to] set the universe going," in an excerpt from his new book, as reported in a BBC News story. I might agree with him that far, but t...
Posted on the yes church (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Getting To Know Each Other Better
- The Rev. Dr. John Tolley, my advisor at Meadville Lombard Theological School, e-mailed the students in the second-year Congregational Studies Seminar who will be attending convocation beginning the...
Posted on Inner Light, Radiant Life (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Inching closer to the American Dream
- This column is to be published in the UUFHC newsletter in September. We have an opportunity, we citizens of the United States, an opportunity that we passed up nine years ago. We can inch a little ...
Posted on Standing On The Side Of Love » Blog (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Punjabi Taliban kill 29 in attacks on religious processions in Lahore
- Where weree you when they slaughtered a Muslim religious procession yesterday? Or did you even care to notice? Love's divide blind and ends at our shores? Twenty-nine people were reported killed an...
Posted on Pfarrer Streccius (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Living your faith
- Faith is not just a declaration of the attributes of your God, if that is what your faith is based on, but a system of behaviors devoted to something greater than yourself. Living your faith is not...
Posted on CUUMBAYA (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Church Skills: (NOT!) How to Crush the Morale of Your Pastor
- Please read this. The whole thing. The humor helps, it really does. I’m only weeping a little. Here’s an excerpt to get you to read the rest: In the past most congregations’ attempts to demoralize ...
Posted on ministrare (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - The Spirit of Partnership
- Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward reflects on how her time in Phoenix intersected with her work in anti-racist education and national movement building Betty Jeanne, Linda Wells, Gini Courter and Susan Les...
Posted on Standing On The Side Of Love » Blog (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - The Sacred Ordinary
- Over the years, I've had the joy of traveling to many sacred places in various parts of the world. I've been inspired by cathedrals, shrines, and temples. I've seen breathtaking and profoundly spir...
Posted on The Sustainable Soul: Natural Spirituality (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010
