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Some years ago, writer Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker shared the story of his three-year-old daughter’s imaginary friend. The name she gave her imaginary friend was Charlie Ravioli, and Charlie Ravioli was always too busy to play. One day Adam Gopnik and his wife watched their little girl punch a number into her imaginary…
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When I was a senior in college, I met the woman I would be married to for many years. It was not easy going. I was still very early in my process of just beginning to comprehend the impact of my mother’s mental illness on our family and on me, together with my father’s drug…
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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…