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The Spirituality of Star Trek

Aug 11, 2024

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Unitarian Universalism

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., filk song, Gene Roddenberry, Humanism, NASA, spiritual intelligence, Stacey Abrams, Star Trek, Thomas Wentworth Higginson

A sermon on Star Trek perhaps ought to begin with these fictional characters: But not this sermon. This sermon begins with this real life person: Thomas Wentworth Higginson: 19th century soldier, politician, abolitionist, author, mentor to poet Emily Dickinson, and Unitarian minister. Listen to something he once said about the human spirit: “Our true religious…