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A different kind of fight?

The quick pundit take seems to be that Hillary Clinton vowed to fight and fight and fight some more, all the way to Barack Obama's inauguration next January and perhaps into his second term as well...
Posted on Media Nation

Media Nation on NECN

I'll be on New England Cable News tomorrow at about 9:15 a.m. to talk about the latest on presidential race.
Posted on Media Nation

Tapping the brain trust

I'm looking for an easy, free way to turn an RSS feed into a widget that I can embed into a Web site. Thoughts?
Posted on Media Nation

The Clinton-Kennedy split

In my latest for the Guardian , I ponder Ted Kennedy's decision to throw Hillary Clinton over the side of the yacht last week - a far more significant move than his endorsement of Barack Obama earl...
Posted on Media Nation

An old lie recycled

Unexpectedly, it's turned into Charlie Pierce Week here at Media Nation. Why? Because conservative media critic Tim Graham is smearing Pierce with a five-year-old lie - a lie that Graham had a hand...
Posted on Media Nation

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Religious Professionals

Letting go

Max has twice now disappeared from the deck for an hour or so at a time. How he gets off, I don't know. How he gets back on, I don't know. But twice now I have had to shut the door to the deck not ...
Posted on Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show

sabrina eating

a two minute video of my dog sabrina eating a carrot. I love the way she holds it between her paws. And the sound of crunching. Notice that she knows she has to take it outside to eat.
Posted on One More Step | RevRicky.com Community Forum

sabrina crying

a thirty-two second video of my dog Sabrina crying for attention, even though she's already on the couch. The voice you hear and the right forearm you see belong to my husband Peleg.
Posted on One More Step | RevRicky.com Community Forum

EmergingUU.org

Chris Walton (Philocrites) asks: Have you seen the Emerging UU Congregational Resources website? It's a joint project of the Central Midwest and Pacific Northwest districts. I hadn't - hereafter I'...
Posted on Boy in the Bands

Buddha & Jesus: Two Lives, One Spirit

This is a sermon that I delivered on Christmas Eve 2006. A reader in my previous post asked why I wanted to be more like Buddha (I also said I wanted to be more like Jesus). So, I thought...
Posted on Keep the Faith

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Online Communities

May SAC meeting CANCELLED

UPDATE!!! NO MAY MEETING!!! The May SAC meeting has been cancelled! The May meeting of the UUCP Social Action Committee will be Tuesday, May 13, 2008, at 7pm in eithe the church basement or the Yel...
Posted on Social Action Committee

The UUCR Annual Meeting packet is now online

The UUCR information packet and proxy are available for the annual meeting to be held on May 18th.
Posted on UUCR News

Music Directors here?

Just curious if we have any Music Directors in this group. I have a question about salary and expected job duties that go with certain salaries. My church is trying to say that my job is 1/4 time w...
Posted on Unitarian Universalists

The Mormon Sisters, again.

A couple of Mormon Sisters came to our door. I always talk with spiritual peddlars and sometimes try to sell. They told me there is another book besides the bible. They wanted to know if I would re...
Posted on Unitarian Universalists

The Bible and it's Influence, a public high school text book

http://www.bibleliteracy.org/Site/index2.htm I've been reading (a dangerous habit, I know! LOL) and I was wondering if any UUs have reviewed this text book? Have any UUs used it in their own youth ...
Posted on Unitarian Universalists

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Seminarians

Tribal Gods

You might have noticed that Celestial Lands has calmed down (less blog posts) over the past week or so. That is because my mom came to Chicago to spend a week with us and hear me preach on Mother's...
Posted on Celestial Lands

video of Little Warrior

For Mothers' Day, The Husband gave me my combined birthday/M-Day present, as requested, of a Flip Video camera. I'm hoping to keep kind of a running documentary of this, our second journey to Cance...
Posted on The Journey

Little Warrior is doing A-OK

We're keeping her on the Zofran (anti-nausea). So far, you really can't tell she received chemo yesterday. Eating, playing, having fun with her daddy. "How are you feeling?" I asked her. "I feel .....
Posted on The Journey

Rest peacefully, Ric Masten, "Let it Be a Dance"

This just came in over the UU Worship list: We are hanging the feathers on the wind. Dad passed peacefully late last night, May 9, 2008, at 11:50 pm, his whole family around him singing Let It Be A...
Posted on The Journey

day

"Do you think she pulled some kind of a bait and switch?" GlamourGirl asked. It's a good question. Little Warrior is running around, smiling, having fun. I, on the other hand, look as if I've been ...
Posted on The Journey

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Online Resources

Revolutionary Spirits

Posted on UUpdates - Recent Site Additions

". . . learn to simply be."

This lovely prayer was written by Elizabeth of "Elizabeth's Little Blog." It's a great reminder that even in the little doings of our daily lives, there are beauties and miracles that can so easily...
Posted on Best of UU

Ringing for Justice in Iraq

Yesterday, I volunteered to climb the steeple of All Souls Unitarian Church of Washington D.C. and ring the Revere Bell for the ten minutes before the second worship service in remembrance of all t...
Posted on Inspired Faith, Effective Action

Evangelicals finding their way from war

The Seattle Times is reporting the young evangelicals are leaving the GOP ranks over the Iraq issue. Judy Naegeli, 25, who works at a Christian philanthropy, says easy access to information about t...
Posted on Aaron Sawyer's DiscoverUU Blog

Screw the rest: UU social justice should be UNIVERSAL Health Care

We're a weak bunch. Let's face it. We're horrible at organization, follow through, and devotion to, well, anything. Efforts of UU Social Justice suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. Food for the...
Posted on Aaron Sawyer's DiscoverUU Blog

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Personal Reflections

John Lewis: "Django" (1965)

John Aaron Lewis (1920 - 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Above he is performing at the Jazz Piano Workshop in Berlin 1...
Posted on Sisyphus

5 contemplations.

5 things I am contemplating this week: Plastic. How can I reduce the amount of plastic in my life? How much mulch do I really need for my garden? Should 15 year olds get jobs? Actual jobs, not odd ...
Posted on Unmitigated Bliss

Educate me

From White Bison : "But the great spirit has provided you and me with an opportunity for study in nature's university, the forests, the rivers, the mountains, and the animals which include us." -- ...
Posted on Root and Source

Tum De Dum

:::twiddling my fingers::: It's been a good day! Except that somehow my knees are hurting. A lot. The right one swelled to the size of a small grapefruit. The left one just HURT. No clue why. All I...
Posted on BiddiesInMyBrain

The Neural Buddhists

David Brooks notices an alternative between militant atheists and traditional theists. In their arguments with Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, the faithful have been defending the existen...
Posted on Transparent Eye

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