"Silence, in its pristine dignity and mystery, simply is. It does not need to clamor for our..."

“Silence, in its pristine dignity and mystery, simply is. It does not need to clamor for our attention or bemoan its absence. Wordless, unfathomable, it awaits.” - Jamal Rahman, The Fragrance of Faith

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I Accept the Universe! Marking Margaret Fuller’s Birthday

Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on this day in 1810. She was an author, editor, journalist and literary critic, an educator, a first-wave feminist, and, critically for us one of t

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Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking

Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking

Re-imagining Unitarian Universalism, Part 4: Secularity

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4:  Re-Imagining Unitarian Universalism, Part 4: Thinking about Secularity I became uncomfortable with the way that UU Christians had dichotomized the situation within the UU

Benediction for the Wind (on the occasion of a killer tornado)

What better way to get people praying than to remind us of random chance? What better way than the cold logic of air rising, falling, killing here, not there; this one, not that. Where I come from we

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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

Rejoicing in Color

“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.” ―John Calvin What color makes you rejoice? The Daily Compass offers words and images to insp

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"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,