September 2020
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Recently, I came across a story about a psychological study called the Stanford Prison Experiment. It was 1971, and psychologist Philip Zombardo wanted to explore how people’s behavior is impacted by external circumstances. The idea that individuals possess unlimited freedom to pave their own path through life and go their own way is as American…
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The Story of Unitarian Universalist Faith
You know how it is when you’ve taken a thing for granted, and then something shifts and all of a sudden you’re seeing it as if for the first time? That happened for me not too long ago, with something that is printed in every one of our church hymnals, right at the beginning and…
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That’s our story for today, The Cello of Mr. O, by Jane Cutler. When Mama says “This is not the first time in history that such a thing has happened”–and she’s referring to war–and her daughter replies, “It may not be the first time it’s happened. But it is the first time it has happened…
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I have encountered this Hebrew creation myth countless times and know it as the origin of the tradition of the Sabbath; and I thought I knew what it meant. But recently I learned something new. I did some deep Biblical homework. I checked out what the original Hebrew word translated as “refreshed” really means. That…
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