A Goyish Take on Yom Kippur and UU Appropriation—Murfin Verse

This poem has appeared on this blog at least many times for Yom Kippur.   I guess that this makes it an official tradition. It was inspired not only by my genuine admiration for the Holy Day, but by a

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Hunny

It was March of 2022. I was about to finish my one year of breast cancer treatment. I decided that I was going to give myself a gift. I wanted a little poochie. I started to look on the Gwinnett … Con

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Book of Life

“This is the season of repair. A time to reflect on how we might endure when life tears at us. We are held by the great Book of Life, in which it is written that we will inevitably face deprivation an

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Other professions

In 1778, James Boswell recorded a conversation between Dr. Samuel Johnson, then aged 68, and a man with whom he had been at college, one Oliver Edwards, then aged 65. One of these exchanges, included

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The Dance of Welcoming in Spiritual Communities

          (A sermon by James Ishmael Ford, delivered at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, on the 24th of September, 2023) *** One day while walking quietly together, out of t

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Five weeks of taiko

(CW: a blister is pictured in this post. I know that freaks some people out.) As reported earlier, I have been taking a taiko class on Sunday mornings. Taiko are the Japanese drums usually played in a

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My own moon jar

This is a vessel I made as a potter in 1976. Make, fix and create... Assist others in learning likewise.

Divine Pathos: Abraham Joshua Heschel

The second sermon in the series "Lives of the Spirit" focuses on the life and teaching of Abraham Joshua Heschel. The post Divine Pathos: Abraham Joshua Heschel appeared first on Colin Bossen.

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What Is Growing Ethically?

I. How do we grow ethically? “With a bit of muddle and some hard testing,” as Louise said. Our mission here in this church is not a “mission accomplished” kind of mission. The job is never completed.

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Weekly Bread #241

Welcome to my fantasy…a friend took the photo I used on this blog last week and ran it through some clever program and came up with this. I no longer look tired, but like a badass character in a fanta

Hiking Homilies

in the meantime...

There was a serious motorcycle accident on hwy 23 North last night in a spot that has had many other accidents in the past. Today the roar of motorcycles will likely be that of bikers headed home, and

Day of Atonement

Yom Kippur, the most sacred holy day to Jewish people, begins at sundown tonight. It is the last day of the Days of Awe, in which people are asked to atone for their sins. We offer you today this pray

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All Ages Worship (24 September 2023)

Please join us on Sunday (24 September 2023) at 11:00 AM for “You Have to Open Your Hand First”by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. In this season of the Jewish High Holy Days, we celebrate the sweetness of a new

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Pre-K thru Grade 5 Children’s Religious Education (24 September 2023)

For this Sunday (24 September 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 Pearma

Religious Education

Middle and High School Youth Religious Education (24 September 2023)

This class is an exploration of our eight Unitarian Universalist principles through artistic expression. Each week the group will explore and discuss one of our principles in depth and have an opportu

Religious Education

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education — 24 September 2023

Please join us on Sunday (24 September 2023) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM. Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church soci

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Louisiana Unitarian Universalists Statewide Retreat (20-22 October 2023)

Join us 20-22 October 2023 as we travel to join our Louisiana Unitarian Universalist friends at the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge for a statewide retreat. We will worship together, sing together, st

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wail of sirens, thunder of cycles.

Here Eureka Springs today I'm sitting on my front porch with Rosie. The rumble of motorcycles from the highway below our home is steady, pierced only by the occasional sirens of ambulances. Fortunatel

Photos help me see

Since beginning to blog, I have loved taking photos of creatures and plants. It is like a third eye that helps me to see the beauty all around me. Sometimes it helps me to look more closely, later. Li

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Faith in one's own spiritual community and a creative, free religion or spirituality

  A short  “ thought for the day” was offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful   Meditation.   (Click on this link to hear a recorded version of the following

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