Summer...
It seems summer is here in the Ozarks. I had my last day of woodshop for the school year and all projects are finished by the kids. Looking back it was a good year and if you've been following along y
Four votes for a $third of a billion
The Spring Valley Community Infrastructure Development vote in Tuesday's election here in Ada County is an interesting story. According to the powers that be, the election turnout was an astounding 85
A gift day
A couple in my church call it a gift day. It's that phenomenon of something completely unexpected but wonderful happening. For example, going to see a movie but having it cancelled so folks respond by
Beloved Community: The Now and Not Yet
Beloved Community is not held within our church walls. As soon as you begin to think like that, you have moved into the exact opposite of beloved community, because in creating that definition of comm
I Met with My Senator Today, Will You Join Me?
This morning, I met with Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, my own senator and one of the “Gang of Eight” who drafted the bipartisan immigration reform bill, to share why I support compassionate immi
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Beloved Community: The Now and Not Yet
Rev. Christine Robinson has a great little post up about the phrase "beloved community" and why it's problematic to use that to describe a church. Like her mom, I can get cranky about the whole thing,
Oklahoma Emergency Relief Fund
The Southern Region UUA is establishing a relief fund for those affected by the devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. Click on the title above for more information and how you can contribute.
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"Chaliceout - May we care for & cultivate the gifts of our differences & share those..."
“Chaliceout - May we care for & cultivate the gifts of our differences & share those strengths generously.” - Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi
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Children’s Ability to Learn is Sacred
There is a lot to learn between birth and first grade and this does not happen automatically. While parents play a huge role in offering their children learning opportunities, preschool prepares a chi
Meditations on Grave Digging
I am not known to shy away from death (not yet, at least). Lest you forget or didn’t know, I am the foster parent (shhh, don’t tell DCF) who, when the cat hid away to die and was found twelve … Cont
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Summer at Sixteen
It’s summer. Not the calendar kind but rather the school kind. Well, my younger son is finishing three Online G3 courses while my older strolls through the ends of a writing course, but it’s mostly su
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June’s Services
Services for June 2013 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Peninsula theme: Prophecy June 2nd: “From Where I Stand” As Rev. Andrew comes to the end of his third year serving as minister to
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Operation Streamline: An American Obscenity
I am not sure I can even begin to describe this obscene method of handling border crossings. Understand the militarization of the border was to prevent the crossing of terrorists into the USA. Since
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The Almighty: Images of God
If your God would not make a good neighbor, then you have to reexamine your image of God. If God is not good, then what else could be?
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COMPARING PRESIDENTS
Presidents Day occasioned my annual peek into history, bringing me this time to Eisenhower, about whom no one seems to know jack. But he is vaguely recalled with fondness because time colors curre
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Big fire in a small town
It's nothing to match the enormity of the tornado in Oklahoma this week, but the fire that started in a garbanzo bean elevator and spread to three grain bins in tiny Craigmont, Idaho rocked the town o
Life is Not Safe
Coming to grips with our natural vulnerability, with the stark reality that no matter how hard we try, there is never any guarantee of safety for any of us, can earn us some freedom from fear, and the
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Susan Katz Miller answers questions for interfaith families
Susan Katz Miller is a former Newsweek reporter and former US correspondent for New Scientist. She blogs on interfaith families for the Huffington Post and OnBeingBoth.com. She lives in the Washington
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Americans In the Line To Get Into Heaven
I have this vision of being on line to get into Heaven. An angel is standing at the gate. She says, “Do you recognize this?” And she holds up one of those little yellow plastic corn cobs with … Co
Mind of the Minister
