Biblical Literacy Class

James Carroll continues his lecture series on understanding the Bible.

Adult Programs

Spirirtual reading discussion group - Maturity: The Responsibility For Being Oneself - Chapter Two - Ignorance or innocence?

Chapter two Ignorance or innocence? For growing up, just watch a tree. As the tree grows up its roots are growing down, deeper. There is a balance—the higher the tree goes the deeper the roots will go

Osho Maturity Fourth principle Spiritual Reading Online Book Discussion

There is no elephant in the room and that is “the elephant in the room”—offering people a “sundae service” they can genuinely swallow

READING: The Blind Men & the Elephant—A Hindoo Fable by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind)

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Impeach Trump

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan's 3rd Congressional District, chair of the House Liberty Caucus, and a "libertarian Republican," flies a quote from F.A. Hayek on his Twitter account: "Laws must be gener

books in bloom (what did you learn in wood shop?)

Today is our annual Books in Bloom literary festival at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. It's an opportunity to meet a variety of nationally known and local writers. And buy their books. Organizi

Priesthood as Service to the Gods

Serving my community is part of my priesthood. But I am also called to serve Them directly in the ways that They request/demand, for reasons that are known only to Them, and that have no obvious value

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A Unitarian Rite of Spring—Flower Communion with Murfin Verse

Flowers surround the Chalice ready for distribution.  In 2016.  Between ministers Tree of Life Religious Education Director Sam Jones led the service. Today we will hold our annual Flower Communion at

UUA Murfin Verse Flower Communion Norbert Capek Tree of Life U U Congregation Czechoslovakia Prague Sam Jones Unitarian tradition

19 May 2019 Worship Service and Religious Education for Children and Youth

Please join us on Sunday (19 May 2019) at 11:00 AM for “Companions for the Journey” with Marla Moore, Eric First, and Barbara Jarrell. This morning, two of our members and our minister share with us t

Worship Religious Education Minister

Adult Religious Education — 19 May 2019

Please join us on Sunday (19 May 2019) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education class — “The Story of God, Part 3  — Who Is God?” Although Morgan Freeman has indeed played the role of God in the p

Religious Education

Announcement of Congregational Meeting (19 May 2019)

From:  Bennett Upton, President and Acting Secretary To:  All Members, Inactive Members, and Friends In accordance with the Bylaws of our church and as Secretary of the Board, I hereby announce that A

leadership communication

Charge of the Weight Brigade

I am not sure why, but this morning I had Tennyson’s poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, running through my brain. (His poem is at the end of this post.) I must have memorized it sometime in scho

Musings Kaiser Medical Weight Management Posts

Enlightenment, Endarkenment, Zen

  Enlightenment, Endarkenment, Zen James Myoun Ford Anaheim Zen Sangha  When buddhas don’t appear And their followers are gone, The wisdom of awakening Bursts forth by itself. Nagarjuna, Verses from t

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My tweets

Sat, 09:32: Between Two Knees is in the bottom 2 or 3 shows we've ever seen at OSF. Drecky details at https://t.co/r5unGLMyTV #BetweenTwoKneesOSF

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Spiritual Reading Online Spiritual Reading Book Club - Maturity by Osho, Growing old or growing up?

This is the first article in a series on Osho's book, Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself and comes from the forward. So first we have to understand what I mean by “life.” It must not be sim

Books Maturity Spiritual Reading Online Book Discussion

Spiritual Reading Online Book Discusion

Unitarian Univeralism: A Way of Life is introducing a new feature on its blog: an online spiritual reading book discussion group. This feature will provide a series of articles on the book being studi

Osho Spiritual Reading Online Book Discussion

Interdependent Web: Put your hands on the moral arc, the wound is in you, simply hear what is

Heather Christensen A weekly roundup of blogs and other user-generated web content about Unitarian Universalism

Being judgmental betrays our faith in UUs seventh principle

The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the reality. We all misperceive what is in front of our eyes, ears, smell, touch, because we perceive through our filter and lens of experience which sk

Unitarian Universalism seventh principle

Recovery from Evil

Hello, dear ones, and (for me), good morning – So there’s this thing I’ve been noodling on. In some ways, it’s not new at all, I’ve written about it here before, and the noodling is not even new. It’s

justice practice perfectionism

Space for Wonder, Atonement, and Joy

In our 24/7/365 world, where there is always more to be done, where we’re connected globally and aware of terrors, disasters, and troubles beyond our neighborhoods, where many struggle to sleep even w

Religion

UU Climate Justice Briefing with Aly Tharp for May 17, 2019

There’s so much going on with the climate and some awesome UU events and opportunities coming up! That’s why I’m going LIVE with Aly Tharp of the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth to share a q

Climate Climate Justice Aly Tharp