Pentecost Sunday: Gifts of the Human Spirit

This sermon was delivered via Zoom with Community Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasco, WA on 5/31/2020. Good morning Community Unitarian Universalist Church and thank you for inviting me to share i

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‪Under capitalism, workers have two jobs. The first is to earn their pay. The second is to earn their bosses’ profit. The faster they do the first and the more they do the second, the more their bosse

RACISM, MURDER, & ZEN: Or, When is Silence Enough?

  RACISM, MURDER, & ZEN Or, When is Silence Enough? James Ishmael Ford. Zen is a spiritual perspective and a practice. Its primary focus is a constellation of disciplines that invite silence. And, so,

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The Spiritual Life - Peace and joy come from forgiveness and understanding.

Peace and joy come from forgiveness and understanding. Peace and joy is one of the components of spiritual health. Rather than fear, anger, resentment, grievance, and/or bitterness does the person exp

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Gratitude and Loss

View the online service at 10 am, Sunday on our YouTube Channel. You can also access the service from our Live! or Facebook pages. This week, the Rev. Xolani Kacela, minister at the Unitarian Universa

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The moral Unitarian Universalist - the racist criminal justice system in the U.S.

"My son-in-law is a police officer and he isn't like that! He's a good man." Common defense of white people of a system badly in need of reform. Such defensive comments exemplify a total lack of under

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Audio service, May 31, 2020 (Pentecost)

The full text of the service for Pentecost Sunday follows. Low bandwidth users might want to download and unzip the lower-quality audio file. Higher-quality audio: Download: Lower-quality audio file,

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Race War in America—Running the N*ggas Out of Tulsa

Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?

Are you better off than you were four years ago? If you are, that’s a very good thing. If you’re not, what can you do to make 2020 look better in December than it does in May? And if that’s not possib

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Simplicity

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple—that’s creativity.” —Charles Mingus What have you made more beautiful through simplifying it? The Daily C

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Online All-Ages Worship (31 May 2020)

Please join us on Sunday (31 May 2020) at 11:00 AM for “Where is the Church?  An Affirmation Sunday Service Affirming that We’re Still Here” by the children, youth, and adults of All Souls. Our servic

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Online Religious Education for Children and Youth (31 May 2020)

Please join us for our online religious education for children and youth this Sunday (31 May 2020) — we will start this online Zoom classroom about 5 minutes after our worship service is over. The Zoo

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Online Adult Religious Education — 31 May 2020

Please join us on Sunday (31 May 2020) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class via Zoom. We will be sting Faith Forward:  Spiritual Practice with “Session 5 — Mindful Eating and Mindful Mov

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New UU Class Continues 31 May 2020

The “New UU” adult religious education class will be meeting this Sunday (31 May 2020) at 1:00 PM via Zoom. Bennett is once again offering this class for new and not-so-new members alike. As a member

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Zoom Lunch (3 June 2020)

Please join us next Wednesday (3 June 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 and

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Asking for the end of unrest and protests is asking for the continuation of social injustice.

In too many nice UU meetings where people start getting upset, people get scared and tell the people speaking vociferously, "This isn't the place for this!. If you keep this up, I'm leaving." How many

Column: Beards, Baseball, and the House of David

Karl Seigfried goes looking for the history of an oddball traveling baseball team from the 1920s, and finds the troubling story of a cult of personality with resonance for modern Pagans. Continue read

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Thirty-two photos of a still (mostly) empty and eerie locked-down Cambridge

For those of you not able to get into Cambridge because of the lockdown, below are thirty-two photos taken during the same walk through Cambridge over the last two days (Friday 29th and Saturday 30th

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All over again

I’ve been re-reading one of the great American autobiographies, James Weldon Johnson’s “Along This Way.” Johnson was a renaissance man: poet, novelist, school teacher, writer of hit songs with his bro

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Weekend greetings from Emmanuel Road and a couple of things to think about connected with radical hope and radical patience . . .

White rose in the garden of the Cambridge Unitarian Church Greetings to you all once again. As always, I hope that you have got through another week of the lockdown in reasonable enough shape.  During

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