May 2020

The Bigger the Break, the Bigger the Opening

May 31, 2020

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Stewardship

Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, George Floyd, Intercultural Development Continuum, Jeremy Dowsett, racism, riots, whiteness

We are seeing things break in the horrific death of George Floyd from police violence and the sick way this same sort of thing keeps on happening over and over again in America. We are seeing the break in the protest fires of Minneapolis and smashed windows of Atlanta and the torched police cruisers of…
Letter to Kurt Vonnegut

May 24, 2020

Love and Justice, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

Bokononism, Humanism, Kurt Vonnegut, Unitarian Universalism

May 24, 2020 Dear Kurt Vonnegut, You have been called “our most distinguished and indispensable grouch.” You have been described as “a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe.” In your book entitled Breakfast of Champions, we find there a very short story entitled “The Dancing…
Ethics of the New Normal

May 17, 2020

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality

Clay Jenkinson, COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ethics, Giovanni Boccaccio, John Donne, John Locke, John Rawls, negative freedom, new normal, positive freedom, Rev. Lynn Ungar, smallpox

In her poem entitled “Pandemic,” Unitarian Universalist minister the Rev. Lynn Ungar writes, Know that we are connected in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) Know that our lives are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) There’s more to the poem, but that’s the part I…
Motherlove

May 10, 2020

Aging and Staging, Holidays and Holy Days, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Wellness

Barbara Kingsolver, Cheryl Richardson, Mother’s Day, motherlove, Renee Trudeau

From the Washington Post comes an article entitled, “Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words,’” and in part it says: The traditional view is that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years. Evolution, linguistic “weathering” and the adoption of replacements from other languages eventually drive ancient words to extinction, just like the dinosaurs of…

May 2020

The Bigger the Break, the Bigger the Opening

Letter to Kurt Vonnegut

Ethics of the New Normal

Motherlove