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- Me, when pressed I can hold still for long periods of time...
Posted on Monkey Mind (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 - 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 - 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 - Horrible Use of Technology and Social Media
- I don’t care, I’m going to say it. A BTFM reader has just alerted me to an ordination invitation sent out by a minister-to-be over FaceBook that is a big joke. The text says something like, “Can yo...
Posted on Beauty Tips for Ministers (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Letting Go
- Life is such an onion, as is the work of Compassionate Communication. Just when I think I "get" that there is freedom in letting go of strategies, I realize that there are deeper layers. I discover...
Posted on Beyond Wrongdoing and Rightdoing (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - absent to all eternity...
- Don't agree with your minister on everything? No excuse, says Bernard Whitman, for not going to church. His "Excuses for Neglecting Public Worship Examined" continued... "3. The third excuse which...
Posted on Boston Unitarian (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - Prayers September 3, 2010
- Morning Prayer Justice and Mercy, hear my prayer! If there is a balm for the hurting world, let me be part of that, tending peace and hope, love and forgiveness, compassion and thanksgiving. I know...
Posted on UniversalistPrayers (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010 - It’s all about religious tolerance
- Joe Volk of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) just sent out an email message encouraging all Quakers to “state publicly that you stand with our brothers and sisters in the Americ...
Posted on Yet Another Unitarian Universalist (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010 - The wedding service, legally speaking
- In 2004, after marriage between persons of the same sex became legal, I wrote a blog post about what a pastor might do when the couple had already vowed themselves to each other in the only spheres...
Posted on Boy in the Bands (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010 - Clergy Burnout Discussion
- I wanted to share a link that is making the rounds on Facebook. It is part of the recent interest in the problem of clergy burnout, something that I have addressed before in terms of my upcoming s...
Posted on The Burbania Posts (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010 - I Wanted to Kill It
- but I didn't. The silverfish was crawling around the edge of the bathtub as I was shaving. Out of the corner of my eye I watched it; they move quickly you know and it could start crawling up my leg...
Posted on Aside From The Obvious (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010 - Church Skills: The Balancing Act of Compassion
- While we all agree that compassion is a great idea, Rabbi Tabick acknowledges there are challenges to its execution. She explains how a careful balance of compassion and justice allows us to do goo...
Posted on ministrare (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010 - NormAcademy Day 1
- So Son #1 started 7th Grade today and Son #3 "moved up" in on Monday in his preschool. Today, therefore, marked the beginning of Norm's home school year. Over the past week it became clear that th...
Posted on The Burbania Posts (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010 - Boy, we were Green!
- The word from Minneapolis is that during General Assembly in June, NO waste was sent to landfills from our time at the Convention Center. 76% of waste produced was recycled and composted, and the r...
Posted on Nancy's Views on the Landscape (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010 - Undercover
- Back in March, the Onion A.V. Club began a weekly feature called "Undercover" and yesterday was the final installment in the feature. How it worked was that the folks at the A.V. Club made a list o...
Posted on RevThom (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010
