Sunday, 21 September 2014, 07:52 am PDT
Featured Ministers
How You Can Respond to Ferguson
This week I have gotten many requests to help us here in the Saint Louis area. Often the offers have been for donations of food. This is my response. Thank you so much for your compassionate outrea... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Christian Universalism
As a Unitarian Universalist minister I can be morally strong and clear without needing to set absolute rules. I am moral and also free of eternal punishment for moral failings. I don’t ne... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Lego Movie Theology
Did you notice the religious themes in The Lego Movie? There is nothing very deep, nothing one could call systematic theology. But the movie makers were consciously playing with religious ideas. Ob... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Glowing Snake Skin
Recently someone asked me about two details in the new Russell Crow movie, Noah. They wanted to know what was up with the strange glowing skin, and were “the Watchers” from the bible or... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
April is Not the Cruelest Month
Minister’s Column – April 2014 I now serve in the First Unitarian Church of Saint Louis. In 1922 a child of our church, who had grown into a significant adult poet, wrote: April is the cruelest... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Beginnings
Since I was a youth four images of The Beginning have lived side-by-side in my thoughts. All weave together fact and fiction into the mythos of the genesis of all things. I quote them here in order... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Was MLK Unitarian?
This past Civil Rights Sunday I decided to speak about gun violence. It seemed a clearer and more relevant topic than MLK, theology, race and identity. I am glad for my choice, but the matter of ... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
That Wacky Wabbit
I have spent a portion of my adult life learning and telling First People stories. Some of these stories are about Rabbit. Rabbit, like Coyote and Raven and Bison, are not about rabbits and rav... [read more]
Rev. Thomas Perchlik
Eboo Patel and Common Ground wtih Sikhs
I post here an excellent opinion column from Eboo Patel: “Imagine the terror. You are in a temple, a safe, sacred place, preparing for a morning service. In the kitchen, you are busy cooking ... [read more]