January 2020
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“It is in the small things we see it,” says Anne Sexton in her poem entitled “Courage”: The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on a journey all alone. When they called you crybaby or…
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At times, I am asked about what Unitarian Universalists have in the way of scriptures. What’s our sacred text, what’s our holy book? What do you say to that, when you believe that truth is abundantly present in the world, comes from many sources, and never ends in its evolution? How do you bind something…
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General Assembly is the annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists from around the world, and every year it’s a different place we land. It was several years ago at the General Assembly in Columbus, Ohio, when I found myself absorbed by the sight of the thousands of people streaming through the corridors of the Greater Columbus…