Sunday, 11 May 2008, 06:37 pm PDT
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In orbit
I mentioned that there are a number of Unitarian Universalist congregations that are not members of the Unitarian Universalist Association but neither are they declared to be “emerging... [read more]
Boy in the Bands
Ric Masten, UU 'troubadour,' dies at 78.
The family of Ric Masten, the "troubadour poet" and Unitarian Universalist community minister who reached out to other men with prostate cancer for the past decade, has announced that... [read more]
Philocrites
Screw the rest: UU social justice should be UNIVERSAL Health Care
We’re a weak bunch. Let’s face it. We’re horrible at organization, follow through, and devotion to, well, anything. Efforts of UU Social Justice suffer from Attention Deficit Diso... [read more]
DiscoverUU.com
Featured Blog Posts
video of Little Warrior
For Mothers' Day, The Husband gave me my combined birthday/M-Day present, as requested, of a Flip Video camera. I'm hoping to keep kind of a running documentary of this, our second journey to Can... [read more]
The Journey
To Bookend What I Said Earlier This Morning
I've been reading up on African-American history, which is an unmitigated sense of tragedies and ironies. Don't read up on it if you want to have your spirits uplifted---the story is not a parti... [read more]
Comrade Kevin’s Chrestomathy
Helen Thomas is my Hero
You may have missed this photo. It seems only the Washington Post published it, then got grief about it. The government. .. that is to say. .. our U. S. Government, has been pulling out all stops ... [read more]
Cranky Cindy Changes the World
Good Anger
I may not come across as an angry person--in person or in writing--but when it comes to injustice, I am seething. .. .Here's an example of why I might be angry. .. My husband works full-time. He w... [read more]
UU Intersections
A Day Trip to Sadr City
A great post by Bill working as an embed in Sadr City. He must have been headed into Iraq the same day I was leaving because he has a photo of the welcome desk for the 4th World Islamic Economic S... [read more]
Pfarrer Streccius
Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation of 1870
Arise then…women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,... [read more]
it’s all one thing
Renew Missouri
Following is a guest post by Mr. Plaidshoes (aka Matt):Renew Missouri has worked this fall to put an initiative on the ballot for November to mandate the use of renewable energy for the big electri... [read more]
Everyday Unitarian
Gas saved my soul
Take a gander at this article from the ajc, entitled “Gas to save your soul? Church has offer for you. “ First Baptist of Snellville is giving away two 500 dollar gas gift cards to folk... [read more]
Spirituality and Sunflowers
Gratitude
Today is my birthday, and I have received numerous calls, emails, presents and cards from people who are dear to me. Thank you, all, for your birthday greetings. I feel blessed to hav... [read more]
The Everyday Mystic
Dolphus Skinner in Richmond 1837-1838
Dolphus Skinner (1800-1869) was an Universalist minister and publisher most associated with Utica, New York. the above link will take you to a biographical summary -which also states that... [read more]
SC Universalist
Religious Identity and Unitarian Universalism
I spoke in a Sunday service a couple weeks ago and I just thought I'd let people read what I said if they're interested. It was a lay-led service and several other "young adults" sp... [read more]
reason and reverence
Inspiration
The Furminator
Can someone vouch that this device actually works? I’ve seen the videos. I’m amazed, and I’m envisioning my life without each weekend devouted to hair removal from all surfaces. I... [read more]
Surviving the Workday: Spirituality at Work
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Posting Comments to the Blog, by Tina Simson
Hi there all you Wellspring Blog readers. I wanted to take a moment and talk about how to publicly comment on a blog entry. Recently I’ve been getting e-mails from people who have read a blog ent... [read more]
Wellspring: Inspiration and Guidance for a Spiritual Journey
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A Special General Assembly to Require All UUA District Trustess to Listen to Their Constituents
UU historian and minister Elz Curtiss discusses the Reformation, Catholicism, and UU history in one fell swoop on her most recent blog post at Polity Wonk. All of this leads to a call for a Specia... [read more]
Transient and Permanent
Take the Test
Find Your Real Religion
UU News
FLDS Advocate Asks Bush To Intercede
Willie Jessop, head of a group called Mothers and Children of YFZ, has written a letter dated May 10 (full text) to President George W. Bush. The letter has been posted on the "Captive FLDS ... [read more]
Religion Clause
Midwest Tornado Kill At Least 18 People
Storms continue to ravage the midwest as a tornado tore through a 20-block swath of Picher late Saturday afternoon, killing at least seven people. The same storm system then moved into southwest Mi... [read more]
TakePart.com
That didn't take long*
John Mc Cain's Burma-coddling convention chairman, Doug Goodyear, is gone. *I just noticed that Josh Marshall used the same headline. I wrote mine before I read his. Honest! [read more]
Media Nation
Florida UUs in the news, and more
UU’s In the Media
Who's Your Mama?
In honor of Mother's Day, Beacon Broadside solicited different perspectives on the holiday. Today's post is from Harlyn Aizley. Aizley edited Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbia... [read more]
Beacon Broadside
Featured Podcasts
The Hope Series: Hope Is Fleeting
The Hope Series: Hope Is Fleeting -- Sermon delivered by Rev. Greg Stewart May 4, 2008 [listen to the episode]
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Podcast
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A Tiny Little World
Sunday Morning Worship at All Souls
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A Passion for Freedom, Rev. Bela-Botond Jakabhazi
"Although there are considerable differences between American UUs and Transylvanian Unitarianism - because we live in different societies and in slightly different kinds of cultures - I am mor... [listen to the episode]
Unity Church-Unitarian of Saint Paul, MN
See all podcast episodes from Unity Church-Unitarian of Saint Paul, MN
Where There is no Vision
This sermon was preached at the UU Church of Annapolis April 6 for their Journey Toward Wholeness Anti-racism annual service. They are in the midst of many exciting things and have great vis... [listen to the episode]
Sermons by Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr.
See all podcast episodes from Sermons by Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr.
"Community, Commitment, and the 2004 Red Sox" - April 13, 2008
In 2004, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in a very long time and fans around the world felt like they were a part of something bigger than themselves. In this world of isolation and... [listen to the episode]
Bull Run Unitarian Universalists
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Bedside Manners
Sunday Morning Worship at All Souls
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Wanting Everything
Sunday Morning Worship at All Souls
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"How to Live the Full Life" by Amber Beland
Living our lives to their fullest can be a challenge. What examples do we follow, who do we look up to, and how can we move towards a full life of meaning? For many people our heroes and heroines h... [listen to the episode]
Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis
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CLF Quest September 2006
SEPTEMBER: Featuring Kim K. Crawford Harvie, Paul Sprecher, Jane Rzepka, Victoria Safford and others [listen to the episode]
CLF Quest
Featured Ministers
Pentecost and the Geranium Festival
What follows is just about the most fun I’ve had with a sermon in some time. When I told a good friend I was going to give a sermon on Pentecost, he suggested I deliver it in tongues for add... [read more]
Just Wondering
A Bird in Church for Pentecost
The moment we opened our church doors this morning, a curved bill thrasher flew in. Her(? ) mate stayed outside and fussed, but she was confused by our big windows and couldn't find her way out, ... [read more]
iMinister
Happy Mother's Day!
I was once again in an airport today, traveling back from a few days off with my spouse. I was missing being with my children on Mother's Day. I wished the woman who checked us in "Happy... [read more]
Sexuality and Religion: What’s the Connection?
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All Through the Night
Happy Mother's Day, y'all. What a hard holiday to sermonize about. I gave it my best. I hope you enjoy. All Through The Night Rev. Dr. Michael Tino Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of No... [read more]
The Arc of the Universe
A New Blog by a Zen Master
I've just learned that my old Dharma friend, the Zen teacher Dosho Port has started a blog, Wild Fox Zen. I just took a peek, and it's barely under way. But I recommend setting up a link and chec... [read more]
Monkey Mind
(a) poet, (b) philosopher; pick one
This judgment of Ralph Waldo Emerson is reported by Julia Ward Howe in her Reminiscences: 1819-1899: “Theodore Parker once said to me, ‘I do not consider Emerson a philosopher, but a po... [read more]
Yet Another Unitarian Universalist
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Why I Publish Sermons On the Internet
This just made my day: Hi Rev. Weinsten, My name is [D. W. ] and I am emailing you from ____, Idaho. I just wanted to let you know that you were an absolute lifesaver last week at the ______ Uni... [read more]
PeaceBang
A Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace
Julia Ward Howe Unitarians and Universalists have a strong heritage of leadership by women--in ministry, in lay leadership, and in the community. In case you weren't aware, here is a very incomple... [read more]
Keep the Faith
In Memorium - a funeral address for Clive King, family man, botanist, musician and organist of the Memorial Church (Unitarian) for fifty-two years
Whether as a husband to Margaret, father to Helen and Robert, father-in-law to Graham and Tatiana, grandfather to Morgan, Marcus, Ewan and Ethan or as a friend or professional colleague, Clive's p... [read more]
Caute
Nightmare Ticket
Can we stop now with the whole “Dream Ticket” nonsense? When I first heard about it many, many months ago (when Clinton was conceived as a veritable shoo-in as the Democratic nominee... [read more]
Parsonage Life
Good Friday!
No, I'm not several weeks late. Today is---or will be---Good Friday in a very personal way: the various workmen who have visited my property in the last three days have determined that the leak ... [read more]
Ms. Kitty’s Saloon and Road Show
Omens and Synchronicity
There are supercool aspects to being human and I like to keep tabs on them. When having a bad day, I like to run through my little list of the supercool and remember why I am here. Some examples:... [read more]
Auspicious Jots
Better Never Than Late?
One hesitates to even whisper the name Jeremiah Wright now that it has become a faint echo from, lo, a whole week ago. I'm sure most folk in the Obama camp hope they never hear it again. But the s... [read more]
Isten Aldjon
Focused Goal for A Special GA
A few days ago, Transient&Permanent started raising the issue of having a special General Assembly, called by 50 congregations in three different districts. I didn't get an exact f... [read more]
PolityWonk
Beginning the Long Road Home
I sit in the very same room, 219, in the Victoria Hotel that I began my trip. But this time I am blissfully alone. I can enjoy the quiet and maybe for one night sleep without earplugs. It would... [read more]
timesunion.com
together in our common faith
" When the day of Penthecost came, they were together in one place. " Acts 21,1 It seesm that one of the most diffucult thigs would be how to find a place were people can be together.... [read more]
Good will
Looking Forward/Looking Back–YOU are invited
This weekend is the culmination of something I’ve been thinking about and planning since I arrived at my congregation six years ago. Starting tomorrow, we spend the weekend celebrating Sout... [read more]
ministrare
coffee and ministry
I learned something about the Starbucks approach to customer service yesterday that seemed like good advice for the ministry as well. I was at a Starbucks store and a group of employees came in and... [read more]
One More Step
Spring Fever
Suddenly I feel everything has to happen in the spring. No time! No time! Even as we celebrated Earth Day at the end of April, I still had a sluggish winter sensibility. But in 2 short weeks of ... [read more]