March 2023

In the summer of 1977, I would not have recognized the name of Carl Jung even though the major event of my life back then was premised to a significant extent on the work of one of his disciples, scholar of world mythology Joseph Campbell. I’m talking about that great space opera, Star Wars, which,…

Braiding Sweetgrass: Science or Scientism?

Mar 19, 2023

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Stewardship, Wellness, World Religions

Braiding Sweetgrass, Micheal Polanyi, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Science and Spirituality, Scientism

Braiding Sweetgrass: Science or Scientism?

Part 1 Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? Where do we come from What are we Where are we going? Powerful answers to this have come from modern science. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known,” said astronomer and writer Carl Sagan, and science is up to the…

Unitarian Universalism 101

Mar 5, 2023

Love and Justice, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness

Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spirituality, structural oppression, The Mystery, Unitarian Universalism

Part 1 Some time ago I posted on Facebook one of my all-time favorite Unitarian Universalist jokes: How many UUs (that’s how we shorten our VERY LONG NAME) does it take to change a lightbulb? Here’s the answer: We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the need for a…

Doctor of the Soul: Carl Jung

Braiding Sweetgrass: Science or Scientism?

Unitarian Universalism 101