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,
Religion
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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Meditations on the Good News: Awe Came Upon Everyone
Yesterday, Pentecost was celebrated by Christians worldwide as the birthday of the Christian Church, and so I wanted to share with you this Pentecost reflection from my book Meditations on the Good Ne
"There are two opposite ways by which some men make a figure in the world; one, by talking faster..."
“There are two opposite ways by which some men make a figure in the world; one, by talking faster than they think, and the other, by holding their tongues and not thinking at all.” - Washington Irving
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"The substance of power is that which sways the minds and hearts of the people; all else is the show..."
“The substance of power is that which sways the minds and hearts of the people; all else is the show of it.” - Thomas Starr King, Substance and Show (1890) p.26 (Universalist, Unitarian, clergy, refor
Morning Prayer May 21, 2013
Good Morning, Wisdom! On our way today, may we be steadfast to the principles that guide us, to the promises we have made, to how goodness calls us to create, to aid mercy, to live generously all our
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Evening Prayer May 21, 2013
In the garden of life, may we cultivate Wisdom, that wonderful flower with sharp lessons as well as soft and gentle ones. In the garden of life, may we care for and nourish the wholeness of life, atte
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A Mozarabic prayer in the Hymns of the Spirit
So, why is there a prayer from medieval Spain in the “old red hymnal” (Hymns of the Spirit) ? See page 139, under the heading “Prayers for Righteousness of Life”: Grant us, O Lord, to pass this day in
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The Rev. Jack Morrill For KnoxVegas
On my Facebook page the other day I noted that some wag on Twitter had announced that New York City was so “over” as America’s greatest city. I heart New York forever and I personally found the sugg
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Those Who have Influenced My Present Thought
First of all, I am inspired by the Deuteronomist historians. At a time when the old ways of the ancient Hebrews had come to naught -- their kingdom defeated, the Temple fallen, their religious and po
What is Worth Saving? (sermon)
Village Church, Cummington, MA May 19, 2013 Karen G. Johnston Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry Readings A Stone Jug A bulldozer digging a pond on my mother’s family’s land unearths tw
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A DISCOURSE ON THE TRANSIENT & PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY: A Meditation on Theodore Parker & the Call of Liberal Religion
A DISCOURSE ON THE TRANSIENT & PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY A Meditation on Theodore Parker and the Call of Liberal Religion James Ishmael Ford 19 May 2013 First Unitarian Church Providence, Rhode Island
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"The poor steamer foundered because it drifted…the man who has no aim higher than himself also..."
“The poor steamer foundered because it drifted…the man who has no aim higher than himself also drifts…Do not drift, but steer.” - James Freeman Clarke, Everyday Religion (1886) p.6 (Unitarian, clergy,
