Zoom Lunch (5 August 2020)
Please join us next Wednesday (5 August 2020) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch. Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up. This a chance to connect an
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Great Decisions Group Meets Saturday Night (1 August 2020)
The Great Decisions Group is meeting online on Saturday night (1 August 2020) at 6:00 PM. Great Decisions is America’s largest discussion program on world affairs, sponsored by the Foreign Policy Ass
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Column: Culling Abundance
Clio Ajana celebrates Kronia with a meditation on culling the unnecessary that we might appreciate the core experience of life. Continue reading Column: Culling Abundance at The Wild Hunt.
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LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND: Zen & the Work of Justice
LEAVING NO ONE BEHINND Zen & the Work of Justice Jan Seymour-Ford August 1, 2020 Empty Moon Zen Last fall I had to give a little public presentation about my beliefs and motivations. I talked abou
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Garden Lessons
Today is the Celtic celebration of Lammas, the early grain harvest festival. I’ve always connected it to the early corn harvest–the time to start eating local corn on the cob in the places I have live
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The Lestrygonians, Cyclopes and angry Poseidon are real and prowling once again through our world — a critical re-reading of Cavafy’s “Ithaca” on the twentieth anniversary of my ministry with the Cambridge Unitarians
The last three Cambridge ministers, l. to r. John McLachlan (1967-1976) Frank Walker (1976-2000) Andrew Brown (2000-) This Sunday, twenty years ago, I became the minister of the Cambridge Unitarian Ch
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Maria Mitchell—Reaching for the Stars
Astronomer Maria Mitchell from an 1851 portrait by H. Dassell. Today the birthday of the woman who many consider the first professional female scientist in the world. Maria Mitchell was born on Augus
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Tire Swing
Do you hold, somewhere in your body, the memory of a tire swing? The rubber under your feet or the uncomfortable seat inside, the swoosh of air in your face and the drop in your stomach? Our bodies ar
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2019: If you're tempted to donate to some of the obscure candidates, just send that money to me. I also don't have the slightest chance of winning. I've been thinking about why there are Warren suppor
Ordinary Unitarians: Martha Ziegler
As the years go by, I find I’m less interested in how famous or “important” Unitarian Universalists live their lives, and increasingly interested in the lives of ordinary Unitarians and Universalists.
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Column: Wyrd Science – Viking Equity in the Coronavirus Age
Karl E.H. Seigfried delves into the Viking-era virtue of "hóf," or "moderation," and how its spirit of community ties should matter to modern Heathens in the age of the coronavirus. Continue reading C
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Accountability Sessions: Tulsa Candidates to Listen & Your Voice to be Heard
These are not 'candidate forums' where the candidates talk about their ideas and priorities,” Deanna Terrill, All Souls ACTION team member said. “ACTION accountability session are about having the can
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Praising the No We Receive
Hello, and welcome to what will be for some of you the first day of Making Hard Choices: The Art of Discernment. (Also typed there, “The Art of Deception,” and that is exactly what we DON’T want, so l
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The Story of Nothing (And Everything)
Dedicated with love and a healthy dose of frustration to Henry who, in a tantrum, demanded a story about nothing. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are
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The Bodhisattva Path: A Meditation on Soto Zen’s Three Pure Precepts
The Bodhisattva Path:A Meditation on Soto Zen’s Three Pure Precepts James Myoun Ford The three pure precepts of Japanese Soto Zen are also known as the three root precepts, because they sink i
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Major League Baseball’s Ordeal—The Bitter Strike of 1981
Note— Until this year’s Coronavirus shortened season, the 1981 Major League Baseball strike caused the longest disruption of games in history. . On July 31, 1981 a strike against Major League Basebal
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Floating in Music
Listening to or playing music can lift us out of our mundane world and into a place where we are more free, more open to possibility, less attached to the problems of life that weigh us down. How do y
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The “witch camps” of Ghana
The "witch camps" of Ghana protect women accused of practicing "witchcraft" from further abuse or even death. Continue reading The “witch camps” of Ghana at The Wild Hunt.
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Mid-Week Message, July 28, 2020
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