Early returns are mixed

Lisa Desjardins noted ONE BIG PROBLEM with the president's offer (that I didn't watch him stumble through making): "DACA is currently in courts. 2 Fed. district courts blocked Trump admin from ending

Lord of the flies

About the time I was ready to fire off a letter to the principal of Covington High School, and some Kentucky bishop, I see social media has done some heavy lifting in regard to their students' despica

Column: Pop Cultural Trends in the Fight Toward Equality

Pagan Perspectives Today’s column comes to us from Storm Faerywolf, whose column covers the intersection of Paganism and queer identities. Storm is a professional author, experienced teacher, visionar

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20 January 2019 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (20 January 2019) at 11:00 AM for “Beyond the Dream:  Living into Dr. King’s Legacy” by Dr. Jennifer Russell. Please join us to welcome psychologist, Dialogue on Race facilita

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Adult Religious Education — 20 January 2019

Please join us on Sunday morning (20 January 2019) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class. Continuing this season of focus on our third source (“wisdom from the world’s religions which ins

Religious Education

What do we long for?

We long for Godliness, for wholeness, for nondualistic Oneness. From the point of view of evolution, humanity is the bridge in consciousness between the separation from the Oneness and the rejoining w

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Today's lesson - What is in our own best interest?

Self knowledge is the key to happiness. Most people have no way of answering the question, "What makes you tick?" If we don't know who we are, how could we know our own best interests? Most of us mist

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Ask Alexa - Why is my life so messed up?

Alexa: Why is my life so messed up? You have let your past control your future and not realized that the miracle could help you be born again.

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n week

Yesterday at the Clear Spring School we made great progress in making bluebird houses for the Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalists to install at the Lake Leatherwood City Park. What we still have lef

Remembering Mary Oliver

By Helene Atwan. In 2003, having miraculously convinced Mary Oliver and her tough-minded agent and partner, Molly Malone Cook, to return to Beacon as a publishing home, Mary, Molly and I hit something

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A Hole in the Wall

What feels like destruction in the moment can turn out to be the tearing down of barriers that keep you from seeing what lies beyond them. When have you gained new insight through tearing down what yo

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Enter Edgar Allan Poe

    One of the small pleasures of our fourteen years in old New England was finding how my life rubbed elbows with various public figures of present and past. When we were in Providence, especially, i

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A Phoenix

  I am rising like a Phoenix From old ashes once again Life has so many valleys Deep dungeons of despair Perhaps you saw me there. Or did you glimpse me on a mountaintop Where sunlight kissed the high

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Column: Pagan Practices for Healing from Trauma

Pagan Perspectives Today’s column is a guest submission by Tahni Nikitins, a long-time Pagan and writer in multiple genres. Tahni’s work has appeared at Gods & Radicals, Eternal Haunted Summer, and No

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On MLK Day, We Celebrate Solidarity with Communities of Color

We honor the many Black and Brown leaders who are fighting to defend human rights, and reflect on the solidarity needed to fight injustice.

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honoring the strategic action of the collective

It is that time of the year when we strengthen our resolve to adhere to our new year commitments and turn inwardly to focus on our contribution to the struggle for justice. Many of us will gather in c

Better than political news

Here's a strange and wonderful fossilized insect inside a Javanese opal. Turns out you can use everything but the bark from mustard seeds. Biodiesel, a natural pesticide, and animal feed, all-in-one.

Happy Friday! Live Office Hours for Jan 18

Happy Friday friends. Facebook LIVE office hours (1/18/19) answering some of your questions about digital culture and congregational membership development.  See below for 3 upcoming events, 2 Boston

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Zen Come West: A Passing Reflection on Emerging Opportunities & Dangers

      As it turns out Rick McDaniel has a new book coming out, The Story of Zen. And he invited the Zen teacher Dosho Port to write an afterword for it. Always looking for the easier way Port Roshi po

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Hep to Highbrow—The Night Jazz Went Legit

Roy Eldridge, trumpet; Oscar Pettiford, bass;   and Billie Holiday, thrush in the Esquire Jazz All Star concert at the Metropolitan Opera Hous e in New York. On January 18, 1944, thirty or so years af

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