November 2023
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I’m speaking out of some of my personal experiences as a Unitarian Universalist parish minister for twenty years (2003-2023) who is 56 years-old, white, straight, cis-gender, and who has complex PTSD. Ministry experiences can be so diverse. But I wonder: if you are a minister, do any of my experiences speak to yours? In sharing…
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Isn’t Stellaluna a lovely story? It comes with real depths of meaning. Consider how, midway through the story, Stellaluna is joyfully reunited with Mama Bat and her bat family. Now, as I was reflecting on this reunion, I confess that I found myself wondering, But why does Stellaluna return to her bird brothers? Living with…
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“We shall overcome,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Consider with me a bit of human history. Archaeologists, looking back at the oldest humans, tell us that one in seven of those primal people died by violence. Later on, with the…
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Parenting is hard. The reality is that each child is different, each situation is different, and so what’s successful for one might fall short for another. Which means the inevitability of trial-and-error, on-the-job learning, which means making mistakes. Also, you as a parent are doing this in concert with a team of people (often a…
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