Le Canta a la Virgen de Guadalupe — Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival 2023-‘23

                                                                Le Canta a la Virgen de Guadalupe  sung by Beatriz Adriana Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe , Queen of Mexico and Empress of

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Dear Santa Have You Had the Measles?—Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival 2023-‘23

  Dear Santa Have You Had the Measles? by Lael Calloway with a little help from her dad Cab Calloway. Something about Christmas inspires novelty songs.   Records in every possible genre have been reco

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Susan Nulsen's paintings used in 2023 calendar

Cover   A work in progress: Murchison River Gorge from a photograph by Leonie Nulsen January Huron Avenue in January February My life journey in the style of a journey stone March Still life with a si

Classics of Pagan Cinema: Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

Meg Elison invites our readers to curl up on the couch for a Christ-less Christmas Classic, the 2006 miniseries adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel "Hogfather." Continue reading Classics o

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Receptivity

I. We are reflecting, this month, on the theme: transformation. Last week, I talked about having a vow to guide your life – discerning what is your calling, and pursuing it. Now, a vow is not a goal.

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Living Two Worlds: An Indigenous Perspective on Growing Up in Los Alamos

Patrick Cruz presents an indigenous perspective about growing up in Los Alamos and living two lives: one as a Los Alamos resident/kid, the other as a Pueblo person from Ohkay Owingeh. in Cruz’s mind,

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Weekly Bread #251

My hiking gloves wore out too, but new ones are on the way. There are days I’d like to order a new body on line and have it come in the mail, with frequent email and text messages to alert me to its p

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Humbled in the Face of All That’s Holy

Our theme for December is "The Gift of Mystery." This week we explore some of the many ways in which we respond to the mysteries of life all around us.

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What Role?

In Unitarian Universalist spaces, one of the covenantal agreements we often observe is to honor the impact of our words and behaviors over the intentions. This is a very difficult agreement to uphold,

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Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming—The Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival 2023-‘24

                                                                   Lo, How a Rose E're Blooming performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale. It is already the Second Sunday of Advent, and a hymn appropriate

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All Ages Worship (10 December 2023)

Please join us on Sunday (10 December 2023) at 11:00 AM for “Mastery or Mystery?” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at Al

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Pre-K thru Grade 5 Children’s Religious Education (10 December 2023)

For this Sunday (10 December 2023), our children (Pre-K thru Grade 5) will be using a program adapted from Moral Tales (a Tapestry of Faith curriculum by Alice Anacheka Nasemann and Elisa Davy Pearmai

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Middle and High School Youth Religious Education (10 December 2023)

This class is an exploration of our eight Unitarian Universalist principles through artistic expression. On this Sunday (10 December 2023), we will revisit all 8 principles. The All8 curriculum is the

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Online Adult Religious Education — 10 December 2023

Please join us on Sunday (10 December 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM. For this Sunday only, our adult religious education class will be meeting on Zoom and not in person (the

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Zoom (and In-Person) Lunch on Wednesday (13 December 2023)

Please join us next Wednesday (13 December 2023) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch. Our weekly Zoom lunch is dual-platform — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall. Bring your

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For All Time, Always

"I have been a hard polytheist for a long time, sure that the gods are people with their own motivations and machinations. Somehow, I had never expected them to have feelings - or at least, not ones t

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Article II again (sigh)

I received yet another email from someone who is concerned about the proposed revisions to Article II. On the one hand, we’re merely revising the principles and purposes section of the Unitarian Unive

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Beyond the binary of supply and demand — bringing citizens, business and industry together through a deep, but simple, creative, free spirituality

Orlik, Emil: Japanese mother and child , Leo Baeck Institute, 77.636. A short  “ thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful   Meditation. 

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Super Power

Growing up in an Arabic speaking home in New Jersey meant that I absorbed two languages all day. At school and out in the world, I heard mostly English (some Spanish and Portuguese when I went into Ne

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Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee—Murfin Winter Holidays Music Festival 2023-‘24

  Brenda Lee's Rockin' Abound the Christmas Tree was recorded and released in 1958 but took two years to first climb to the Charts. Earlier this Holiday season, I mentioned that Jimmy Fallon had hopes

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