Morning Prayer May 23, 2013

Awake, my heart, to how Love calls me today. Like the rose welcoming the songbirds fleeing the hawk, may I make refuge and way for those seeking safety and love. Like the songbirds, after fear may I c

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Evening Prayer May 23, 2013

Beloved, help me hold onto the courage I have, nurture it, and follow it through for love, for mercy, for goodness' sake. When I have had to scurry away, flee, or retreat, may I have the courage to go

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Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part II

In 2009 there were some anecdotal stories surfacing of water bottles being vandalized and border patrol agents shooting holes in the bottles.  THe government stated this was not true and it was all an

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Southside Presbyterian Church: Transforming the Heart of America Part 1

In the afternoon the SOAWatch Delegation went to Southside Presbyterian Church to hear Rev. John Fife, past minister of this congregation and Stephanie and Alejandro of the Southside Day Labor Center,

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A fiddle-and-lecture order of service

In one step, from the medieval to Modernism. The Western Conference Unitarians — think of the middle third of the United States a hundred and more years ago — were known for a kind of bibical rational

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Sermon: "Faith's Future, Humanity's Future" (Delivered 5-19-13)

Call to Worship [This call to worship was read by a member of the youth group.] Good morning.  My name is Reverend Thom Belote. Today I was going to preach about the future.  So I built a time machine

"Where none work but slaves, usefulness becomes degradation."

“Where none work but slaves, usefulness becomes degradation.” - Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1836) p.30 (Unitarian, author, reformer)

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This week we celebrate (belatedly) the birthday of Monique Truong, who wrote, “Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls…it can still run away, elude and ev

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Acts of God

People are dead, including children. Whole neighborhoods are utterly destroyed, brought down to foundations and rubble. People are injured, traumatized, bereft. And there is no one to blame. No bomber

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"Comforts can strengthen us, but they cannot fight our battles for us. Only we can do that. Only we..."

“Comforts can strengthen us, but they cannot fight our battles for us. Only we can do that. Only we can rebuild our lives. Only we can overcome our denial and redefine ourselves in the wake of tragedy

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Re-Imagining UUism -- Part 2

Part 1, in which I describe becoming disenchanted with the theory that providing "religious community" was the purpose of Unitarian Universalism. "Religious Community" did not answer the question, "ho

"Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. When the people once surrender their share in the legislature,..."

“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. When the people once surrender their share in the legislature, and their right of defending the limitations upon the Government, of resisting every encroachment u

Morning Prayer May 22, 2013

Blessed is the morning and the new day, the bearers of peace and the creators of peace! Lover of Life, may I touch the peace at the center of Abiding Love today, and bear that peace wherever I go, how

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Evening Prayer May 22, 2013

Blessed is the evening and the new night, the bearers of mercy and the creators of kindness! Lover of Life, may I live in mercy and for mercy, kinder than I find easy or even than I always want to be,

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Isabel Garcia: Not About Papers

This morning the SOAWatch delegation met with Isabel Garcia, Coalicion de Dereche Humanas (Coalition of Human Rights)  and attorney here in Tucson.  This is a summary of her talk. THere is a broader v

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What I'm doing

I’ve graduated - that’s one thing - so what am I doing now? I’m still doing chaplain work at the Veteran’s administration hospital. That’s in Kansas City for another month. I’m getting my Master’s of

School of America’s Watch Delegation

I will be posting my experiences of the School of America’s Delegation this week along the Militarized border of Arizona and Nogales. A brief introduction:  School of America’s Watch is a non-profit o

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Finding Your Voice Again – My 200th Blog Post!

It’s been a hard Spring. As maybe done of you have noticed, I haven’t been blogging much in the past few months. Not only was it a touch winter in New England, but I had a bunch of personal challenges

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Re-Imagining Unitarian Universalism: Where I started

You should read the last couple posts on this blog..... Like everybody of my era, I started thinking about Unitarian Universalism by thinking about the problem of how to define what we believe.  The b

Loyal Heretics

Many people gravitate to Unitarian Universalism because they are heretics. They dissent from established religious dogma, disavowing a revealed truth. For many of us, that dissent began while saying t

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