The Great Disappointment—Not the End of the World After All
William Miller's End of the World prophesy got a lot of ink around the world. This was from an English illustrated newspaper. Note— The Trump phenomena has much in common with the apocalyptic visions
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Burning
Burning candles and incense is a time-honored and broadly-used way of moving thoughts and prayers from the worldly realm to the realm of the divine. As smoke and flame dissipate into the air, so our w
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Premonitions and Disturbances and I’m Not Sure What’s Going On
Several of my psychically sensitive friends have checked in on me recently. My Tarot readings are troublesome. Something’s going on – I’m just not sure what it is.
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Pagan Community Notes: Protests threatening two Witch events fail, “Real Witches of New Hampshire,” stolen Pachamama idols, and more!
In this week's Pagan Community Notes: Protests threatening two Witch events fail, "Real Witches of New Hampshire," stolen Pachamama idols, and more! Continue reading Pagan Community Notes: Protests th
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If you use Wikipedia you can thank me.
Dear David, About a year ago, you donated $52 to keep Wikipedia online for hundreds of millions of readers. I'm surprised by and deeply grateful for your continued support. You are part of the 2% of r
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My day 1
I won’t post a photo every day, but here’s what I’ve been doing. It’ll be an assemblage incorporating hardware and thread, eventually. And as is so often the case, when I’m not making art, thinking ab
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Is obedience to Sovereign Masculinity A Sin?
New York Times 10/19/19 The aspiration to sovereign masculinity expresses itself most exuberantly in hyperbolic displays of power. Why are we still talking about Trump coming down the escalator and ca
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Sermon: Pursuing Virtue: To Live a Good Life
as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, Museum District campus, October 20, 2019 When I was twelve or thirteen one of my friends showed up to church in a suit. It was crisp
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Nachos Get Their Day
Today is International Day of the Nacho, so declared under somewhat murky circumstances and murkier authority for this date in 1975 after the tragic death of the delicacy’s inventor, Ignacio “Nacho” A
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“Whose Am I? Whose Are We?” by Revered Tom Capo preached on 10/20/2019
Story At the Festival of Peace, in Florianopolis, South Brazil, the journalist and philosopher Lia Diskin related a beautiful and touching story of a tribe in Africa she called Ubuntu. She explained h
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A non-prophet organisation?
In his memoir, the philosopher Norman Malcolm recalls that Ludwig Wittgenstein once observed ‘that a serious and good philosophical work could be written that would consist entirely of jokes (without
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Faith in practice - You cannot not teach
Principle 2 You cannot not teach We are teaching all the time by our example, by the way we live our lives. We either teach the way of the ego or the way of the Spirit. The way of the ego is based on
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Ask Alexa - Is there another way to live?
Alexa: I am tired of fear, guilt, hate, resentment and grievance and feeling like a victim and wonder if there is another way to live? Of course there is another way to live and Jesus taught us to lov
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The Goal of Justice
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable…. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated ind
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One hundred days, starting tomorrow
Tomorrow, Monday, October 21, I’m going to begin 100 consecutive days of a practice that’s important to me but that I often let drop out of busyness (actually fear), or because I’m not good enough at
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Mick on the loose Sunday talk
Lots of people tweeting out part of the show... and Fox News itself fobs us off to Hulu for "full episodes," but they have the 15:40 of John Michael "Mick" Mulvaney and Chris Wallace, starting right a
She Says That She Doesn’t Know Fear...
Recently at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston we've started doing a bilingual reading once a month. It is part of a larger project of using more Spanish in the service. We have a smal
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On whiteness and Extinction Rebellion
This is the tweet that encapsulated for many what is wrong with Extinction Rebellion. Someone who was arrested sent flowers to Brixton Police Station, where they had been held, and then released. And
a monkey wrench
My grandfather, Selmer (Sam) Bye used to visit us when I was a small child. As it was his hobby to visit auction sales, buy stuff and sell it at the next, the trunk of his car always held things of in