New Trump Rule Would Lock Up Children Indefinitely
UUSC joins partners and allies in the call to #SaveFlores and uphold legal protections for children.
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SAVE THE DATE ~ Emma’s Revolution Benefit Concert ~ Saturday, November 2
Emma’s Revolution “Free Our Children” Benefit Concert For #FamiliesBelongTogether & UU Mass Action Saturday, November 2, 8pm “Fervent and heartfelt.” ~ The New York Times Join us for an uprising of tr
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Sunday, September 8 ~ Water Communion Service with Live Pan Steel Music
Water Communion Ingathering Honor the waters that touch our lives: rivers, oceans, lakes, and tears of joy and sorrow. In this family worship service we will celebrate our coming together after the su
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Possible source for non-Biblical responsive readings
Yesterday’s century-old Unitarian resource reminded me of another. The “non-biblical” reading has been a staple of Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist worship for ages; in some societies, it’s the de
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UCMH’s New Fall 2019 Catalog is Available Online ~ Click Here to View!
UCMH is pleased to release its Spiritual Growth and Community Center’s Fall 2019 Catalog! We have a great assortment of activities from perennial favorites such as Second Friday Sessions, FreeDrum, Yo
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Enforced goodness is itself evil,
as in every authoritarianism…Moreover, a person obsessed is no longer free, whether one be a Inquisitor or a Communist-or a Nazi . Self-will here becomes compulsion and tyranny . In this view the abus
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inspirationlab.org
"We ask you to imagine Kindergarten classrooms where teachers are trusted to use their judgment about what's best for each class. Imagine a future where love of learning, not test-based performance, r
Improbable
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle What improbability have you come to accept? The Daily Compass offers words a
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DNA Tests are a Curiosity, Not a Guide to Choosing a Religion
There is nothing wrong with wanting to follow the religion of one specific set of your ancestors. As a modern Druid who draws inspiration from Celtic ancestors, I understand this desire. It’s a good a
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Song of Life welcome us once again to the daily practice of...
Song of Life welcome us once again to the daily practice of opening our hearts, stretching faithfully past what’s easy, and serving goodness every way we can
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Faithfulness Needs Vulnerability
In the United States and elsewhere in the world, there is a stony-hearted, stiff-necked and unkind view of the many facing oppression, suppression, and deportation that these migrant peoples, includin
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We Need a Tribe
Things get difficult sometimes. We need the tribal connections that modern life precludes. Thus we are left often alone, “like a motherless child.” And what we do encounter of other people may be nega
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I Love You...Now Change!
Given at GNUUC 8/18/19 “The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. I
“Religious Freedom” in Federal Contracts
New federal contracting rules in the US may favor certain religious perspectives over others. Continue reading “Religious Freedom” in Federal Contracts at The Wild Hunt.
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A Thousand Silent Schisms
The idea of a “schism” in Unitarian Universalist has gained a limited salience this summer. Todd Eklof proposed some kind of separation between the Unitarians and Universalists in The Gadfly Papers, a
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A Solar Eclipse, An Axe, and the Blood of White Folks: Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion
By this time, having arrived to man’s estate, and hearing the scriptures commented on at meetings, I was struck with that particular passage which says : “Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven and all things
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Notes on Mary Renault’s “The Mask of Apollo”
Below are notes on Mary Renault’s “The Mask of Apollo.” I thought they might be of use to the members of the Great Books KC group. I have page numbers and brief snippets from the text with commentar
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Revisiting the Lay Centres book
More than five years ago, I first wrote about a Unitarian effort about 110 years past for the creation of “lay centres” that in many ways anticipated the post-WWII Fellowship Movement. There’s little
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