November 2019

How Many Days to America?

Nov 24, 2019

Beloved Community, Holidays and Holy Days, Love and Justice, Unitarian Universalism

First Nations, How Many Days to America, Jon Stewart, Thanksgiving, Trail of Tears

What Americans commonly call the “First Thanksgiving” happened sometime between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, 1621 at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts. Out of the hundred Europeans who came over on the Mayflower, fifty had survived to see a successful harvest and, let me tell you, these people whom today we call Pilgrims were ready to…
Is All Hope Lost?

Nov 10, 2019

Love and Justice, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

Active hope, Climate change, environmental crisis, Joanna Macy, Paris Agreement, the hero journey, the universe story

These days, despair is preached. The sort of despair that makes it inescapable and inevitable that, one day, we will write a letter to future generations telling them we are so very sorry for what we did to the planet, so very sorry for listening to people who made excuses, so very sorry they (our…