King Lear

Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival King Lear by William Shakespeare I guess it's a relief to discover that Artist Director Bill Rauch can stumble as a director.  After seeing one amazi

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Role Camera

It will only be five minutes. A favor. Celebrating women in the month of May and need a female minister to represent. When she asked a few weeks ago, calling in the middle of a rich and full work day,

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Southern Region Sets up Oklahoma Emergency Relief Fund

The Southern Region of the UUA has created an Oklahoma Emergency Relief Fund to provide assistance to those affected by the tornado in mid-May. Learn more at http://www.uuasouthernregion.org/uuokrelie

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Re-Imagining Unitarian Universalism, Part 7: Worship

I know that I have been in the weeds for the last four posts -- trying to explain the big ideas of sacred secularism, the Holy Spirit Defender and Kenosis. Those ideas are not the core of a re-imagine

"Our challenge as warriors is not to be afraid of sadness, to let it in until our hearts are raw and..."

“Our challenge as warriors is not to be afraid of sadness, to let it in until our hearts are raw and open beyond recognition. As we do so, we may discover that it is possible to feel both grief-strick

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Pagan Community Notes: Oklahoma Aid, UK Census, Woodland, and More!

Pagan Community Notes is a series focused on news originating from within the Pagan community. Reinforcing the idea that what happens to and within our organizations, groups, and events is news, and n

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a man and his tools...

I went to a house out by the lake yesterday to pick up some tools. The wife had given me her number to call with an offer of tools that her husband would no longer need. He's at that age where a bad k

Hair on Fire

Here’s a familiar set of problems in a different setting: Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (PBS) Watch Decline of Buddhism in Thailand on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. I visited Thail

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The Straight and Narrow Way

Sometimes roads diverge and you have to choose, but sometimes the way forward is pretty clear cut. There is always another path, but much of the time it’s pretty obvious that you need to walk the narr

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"Chalicelight - Awake to life’s sorrows & pain, from that wakefulness may we be bearers of..."

“Chalicelight - Awake to life’s sorrows & pain, from that wakefulness may we be bearers of mercy & healing.” - Naomi King - Twitter: @revnaomi

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"Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and..."

“Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the dominion of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of first anguish” - Georg

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"The soldier’s dust that moulders now, amid the common clay, Will give a voice to every flower,..."

“The soldier’s dust that moulders now, amid the common clay, Will give a voice to every flower, that gems your daily way And every singing rill that winds in beauty to the sea — And every breeze that

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Jesse Owens Smashed Records, Defied Expectations

Owens on his multiple-record setting day in 1935. On May 25, 1935, James Cleveland Owens , an athlete on the Ohio State University (OSU) track team, demolished three World Records and tied a fourth in

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No More Deaths: Hiking the migrant trail

Our Delegation on Wednesday went to Arivaca where No More Deaths has a Humanitarian Aid Station  to provide resources and help for the residents and the migrants they may find on their property.  Two

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Red Letter Law: Responsibilty in the Shade of the Trees

I came across an article today on a site called “Forward Progressives” with the provocative title “Religious Right Politicians Don’t Take Jesus Seriously.”  The article describes a theological debate

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26 May 2013 Worship

Please join us this Sunday (26 May 2013) at 11:00 AM for “Who Goes There?” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. We will also hear some fantastic music from our guests — Buddy Flett and Tim Brogan — and from the A

The Last Post (for now)

For three years we wandered through the desert. Often alone, sometimes together, always with our eyes turned toward something that we could not quite see. But that unseen something was our goal; it wa

Pope Francis, Atheism, and Words of Thanks

“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! And this Blood makes us children of

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Quick lessons for web site builders

Or perhaps I should say, “quickly learn some tools because a part of the church website isn’t doing what it should and I can’t find help” or “I don’t want to sound like an idiot when meeting with the

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On Keeping Up

I have a half dozen ideas for things I’d like to write about swirling about in my head. Reflections about reflections. Thoughts about thoughts, about how the mind works, about how the mind works when

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