Weekly Bread #188
It was cooler this week – we even got drizzled on during one hike! Not enough to pull out the poncho I didn’t have, but enough to have to dry off my glasses. We did two 5 milers and one 12. 12 is a bi
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the effect of trees
New York City embarked on a plan to plant 20,000 new trees a year and already the addition of trees is having its effects on neighborhoods. While I'm grateful to live in a forest, even a single tree i
Worshipping Deities From Different Cultures
Gods have people. In the past, those people were likely to be from a single culture, or from related cultures. In some cases they still are. But in others, Gods are calling people from a wide variety
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Art practice for 2022, part 2
I went quiet when I finished my six months of daily leaves and got COVID the same week. It took me a while to get my energy back, and a while longer to settle into my new practice. It has finally take
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Sunday, September 18 ~ The Values of the Newport Folk Festival ~ 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, September 18, 10:30 a.m. The Values of the Newport Folk Festival The Newport Folk Festival’s unofficial motto is “Be Present. Be Kind. Be Open. Be Together”. These are words we live by for a
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Mattie Bergström warned that those who's hands are left untrained will be left "values damaged," and what he meant by that is that they will be left without the full and normal range of human values,
Why Jesus’ commandment that we “love one another” is always already new
Loving intra-actions between humans, a dog, and some fish swimming in the River Cam A short “ thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindfu
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Compassionate Friends
When our daughter, Amy, died in an automobile accident, I became a lifelong member of a group no one wants to be a part of, grieving parents. For months, I attended meetings of The Compassionate Frien
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Prayer for Peace
Prayer for Week of September 19, 2022 - Prayer for Peace Lover of Peace teach us to grow out of inequity into greater equity, to move from co-creating injustice to co-creating justice, to shine boldly
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Global chalice lightings
The International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) is now defunct, another victim of COVID. According to Inga Brandes, ICUU President in 2021, “With the Covid Pandemic, the climate Emerg
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Morning Prayer
Goddess,May the air I breathe be touched by magicMay I be filled with loving kindnessMay I be of service to myself and othersMay I choose my thoughts and words with intentionMay I cultivate inner peac
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Let Democracy Triumph in Haiti
On the International Day of Democracy, U.S. must get out of the way of the Haitian people’s struggle for a free and inclusive government
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Polytheist Theology: the Names, Functions, and Relationships of the Gods
Robust and meaningful theology is never the product of any one person. It’s always the product of a group of people in conversation with each other. Contemporary polytheism needs dialogue among its pr
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reshaping teacher understanding
Adolf Diesterweg was a 19th century German educator and friend of Friedrich Frobel. I was reminded of him as I was perusing my recently published book Holtzwerken mit Kindern, translated from English
Retracing My Steps
Glen Thomas Rideout I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know. Continue reading "Retracing My Steps"
Thinking about Abigail Eliot
Abigail Eliot was a member of the Unitarian Universalist church I grew up in. I have only vague memories of her, but somehow knew she was someone important. I didn’t realize just how important she was
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Wednesday Photo: August Bank Holiday Monday fishing in Harwich opposite Felixstowe Port—a last calm, warm, moment before the cold winter’s coming storms . . .
Taken with a Fujifilm X-T2 Just click on the photo to enlarge it This photo was taken on the August Bank Holiday whilst visiting my parents who live just a couple of miles outside Harwich. At the su
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Canadian Unitarian Universalists Honour Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Canadian Unitarian Universalists Honour Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II – September 8, 2022 – It is with a momentous sense of an era passing that the Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) and Unita
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We’re F**ked
Several years ago, I published a blog, “Rev. Prep” as my personal, public statement affirming that one can be religious and gay and sexual and engaged in promoting safer sex. Although I use a differe
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An American’s Thoughts on the Death of Queen Elizabeth
The Queen is dead – now what? Whether we are Americans, Britons, or otherwise, electing better people to run the governments we have is far simpler and more likely than changing our form of government
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