"Chalicelight - Love shape my reactions, let fearfulness subside, & lead me to risk faithfully..."
“Chalicelight - Love shape my reactions, let fearfulness subside, & lead me to risk faithfully today.” - Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi
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Canada—The Only Nation With the Police as a National Symbol
During the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 the RCMP was flouted as a Canadian nation symbol. On May 23, 1873 acting on the advice of Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald Queen Victoria gave her
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"Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set..."
“Action requires co-operation, but in general if you set your face against custom, people will set their faces against you” - William Hazlitt, Table Talk (1823) p.167 (Unitarian, painter, artist, lite
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"There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say when..."
“There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unjust judge today” - Daniel Web
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Morning Prayer May 24, 2013
Life, how wondrous you are! What a gift and what a blessing! May we rejoice in the gift of each and every day. Especially in the days that are full of hurt and grief and bitterness, may we create caus
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Evening Prayer May 24, 2013
Love, may we each create in our lives and out of our hearts a space that welcomes you. Love, may we each create in our lives the welcome space that makes way for the stranger to become a friend, and c
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We're all outraged
Maybe something Congress does will fix what's wrong with the IRS (if indeed something is significantly wrong with it, which has yet to be demonstrated). Will it come about as the result of committee h
Summer...
It seems summer is here in the Ozarks. I had my last day of woodshop for the school year and all projects are finished by the kids. Looking back it was a good year and if you've been following along y
Four votes for a $third of a billion
The Spring Valley Community Infrastructure Development vote in Tuesday's election here in Ada County is an interesting story. According to the powers that be, the election turnout was an astounding 85
A gift day
A couple in my church call it a gift day. It's that phenomenon of something completely unexpected but wonderful happening. For example, going to see a movie but having it cancelled so folks respond by
Beloved Community: The Now and Not Yet
Beloved Community is not held within our church walls. As soon as you begin to think like that, you have moved into the exact opposite of beloved community, because in creating that definition of comm
I Met with My Senator Today, Will You Join Me?
This morning, I met with Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, my own senator and one of the “Gang of Eight” who drafted the bipartisan immigration reform bill, to share why I support compassionate immi
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Beloved Community: The Now and Not Yet
Rev. Christine Robinson has a great little post up about the phrase "beloved community" and why it's problematic to use that to describe a church. Like her mom, I can get cranky about the whole thing,
Div III (Senior Thesis): Justifying Reason
Introduction Far away there is a nation of people with a peculiar way of deciding what to believe. In this nation everyone carries around a pack of tarot cards, which children are taught from a young
Oklahoma Emergency Relief Fund
The Southern Region UUA is establishing a relief fund for those affected by the devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. Click on the title above for more information and how you can contribute.
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"Chaliceout - May we care for & cultivate the gifts of our differences & share those..."
“Chaliceout - May we care for & cultivate the gifts of our differences & share those strengths generously.” - Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi
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Children’s Ability to Learn is Sacred
There is a lot to learn between birth and first grade and this does not happen automatically. While parents play a huge role in offering their children learning opportunities, preschool prepares a chi
Meditations on Grave Digging
I am not known to shy away from death (not yet, at least). Lest you forget or didn’t know, I am the foster parent (shhh, don’t tell DCF) who, when the cat hid away to die and was found twelve … Cont
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Summer at Sixteen
It’s summer. Not the calendar kind but rather the school kind. Well, my younger son is finishing three Online G3 courses while my older strolls through the ends of a writing course, but it’s mostly su
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