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2019: It's good that respect is given rather than deserved, because those who do not give respect do not deserve respect, yet they should be respected anyway. Hierarchists think respect goes upward fr
Uncle Vernon in the White House
Since reading excerpts from Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough, I have been calling the current occupant of the White House Uncle Vernon. Every time I do, someone wants to know why. So, firs
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A Prayer for John Lewis
Black Lives Matter. I know there are people who will not read on after seeing these words. Black Lives Matter is a statement that has become political and polarizing even though it is not intended to
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no lazy-bones
The following was translated from a placard at the Leipsic Manual Training School and should be shared with those boys and girls who are today trapped in schooling. We don't want any lazy-boned boys.
Three Things People Miss in King’s Birmingham Jail Letter
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Race is about Your Life, Not Your Looks; or How I Avoided the Pocahontas Mistake
Race is about Your Life, Not Your Looks; or How I Avoided the Pocahontas Mistake
Can White People Be Saved?
Sen. Tom Cotton said in an interview that was published today that slavery was a necessary evil. Dr. Lawrence Mead, professor of public policy and political science at NYU, just had an article publish
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Salvation for Aliens
I look to the heavens, and they are garnished with stars, and I remember that these stars, though but specks to us, are worlds so large, that our earth is but an atom in the comparison. The presumptio
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Contestants on a Game Show! pt. 4
The fourth and final installment of the Contestants on a Game Show! series: Full script coming soon….
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Our Shared Beauty
SERVICE NOTES MUSIC CREDITS “Little Sunflower” by Freddie Hubbard. (Aaron Anderson, piano). Permission to stream BMI song #883315 obtained from CHRISTIAN COPYRIGHT SOLUTIONS with license #10770. “De C
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Sermon: “Everyday Spirituality”
I preached from this sermon manuscript online for the Universalist National Memorial Church, on July 26, 2020 using lessons (lightly) from the Revised Common Lectionary lessons from Paul's letter to t
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Daily Bread #121
DON’t buy a Fitbit or if you must, buy it from Costco. I got my charge 3 for Christmas 2018 and loved it. I had just transitioned back to food after the meal replacement portion of my weight manageme
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I Like It Here – Why Do I Have To Leave?
We often struggle to find our path and our place. But once we do, we settle into a comfortable routine. This can be a good thing, but then we hear a call or just get bored. We leave a comfortable situ
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An old diploma
A reader sent me a photo of his grandfather's graduation diploma from Gustaf Larsson's Sloyd Teacher Training School in Boston. Dana Andrews Stanley, upon graduating in 1912, became a teacher of the m
Day 2: new variation
I’ve done numerous variations on these nets, but never with a rupture in the middle. I’ll continue, and probably finish, it tomorrow.
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There is no going back, and no going outside of this event — we can only go forward into the new world that is always-already intra-actively emerging before us
The Cambridge Unitarian Church taken last Tuesday afternoon Back on Saturday 28th March, one week into the official lockdown but two weeks into our our own church’s closure, I wrote a piece for you ca
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First and second sleep
It was once well recognized and accepted in human culture that instead of going to bed and sleeping through the night, human beings would sleep for a few hours, then get up and do a few things, driven
The Left, the Party and the Class—An essay on the future of the Labour left by Paul Mason
Paul Mason (source) This new essay by Paul Mason seems to me to be an important, thoughtful, measured & practical set of suggestions to all of us on the left, whether in the Labour Party or not. Thank
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