Faith
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Dear Jesus, I am writing to you as one of your very distant descendants in the life of faith—a minister in a religious tradition that, oddly enough, would not exist without you, and yet does not look very much like what most people today call “Christianity.” It’s called Unitarian Universalism. In some ways, I think…
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Jesus Saves! As I say that, what’s your immediate reaction? Hold on to it, now, as I take you back 500 years ago to the thought of a Polish theologian named Faustus Socinus. He believed it. He believed that Jesus saves. But now lean in and listen carefully. Faustus Socinus believed that Jesus saves but…
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There aren’t many people about whom it can be said that they transformed the very nature of their profession. That, before they arrived on the scene, it was one way, but when they left, it was something else entirely. But you can say it about Muhammad Ali. This was a man who, besides being the…
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Our Bodies as Teachers
The first time I ever thoughtfully considered that I had a relationship with my body was when I was 12. This is different from something more casual or superficial. Of course I knew I had a body. But the depth of that knowing changed when I realized that my body had me. I was 12,…
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The Lifelong Quest: A Celebration of Unitarian Universalist Religious Education
A sermon dialogue between Rev. Anthony Makar and Director of Religious Education Meghan Ross 1. Personal Stories of Growing Up Director of Religious Education Meghan Ross Today, we begin with stories of growing up. As some of you may know, I grew up right here at West Shore. Somewhere, in a jumbled box of family…
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Spanish poet Antonio Machado writes, Last night as I was sleeping I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? * Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous…
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