Gero Cross

Paradise In This Life

May 14, 2023

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness, World Religions

authoritarianism, Gero Cross, Good Shepherd, Jane Lead, moral perfectionism, Rebecca Parker, Rita Nakashima Brock, Saving Paradise, Survival strategies, trauma, Universalism, William Wordsworth

The historic Universalist side of our religion says something powerful. It says, “Love the hell out of this world!” Say that with me: “Love the hell out of this world!” And we can do that, because, as Universalism teaches, hell is a human creation and therefore healed through human effort. Efforts of many kinds. Feeding…