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A teacher once recommended a spiritual practice to a student. She said, “When you wake up, before doing anything else, write down on separate pieces of paper these sentences: (1) I am but dust and ashes, and (2) I am a Child of God. For these truths are both true, and together they spell out…
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The Return of the Light: Active Hope Part 4
We are in that time of year when some of the most primal elements of existence are uppermost in mind: light and darkness. Radiance and gloom. These are the days when people in the Northern Hemisphere experience the nights growing longer and longer, with less and less light to cheer us. By 5pm, incredibly, it’s…
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Respecting Nature’s Wildness: Active Hope Part 1
Around 170 years ago, our Unitarian Universalist spiritual ancestor Henry David Thoreau spoke about wildness. “Our village life would stagnate,” he said, “if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wildness […] We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic…
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There is countercultural wisdom in this church! I know it is so, because countercultural wisdom has structured my ministerial work among you. You’ve built sabbatical time into it. For every year of usual work, you have granted me a month of sabbatical leave which is not vacation time but, instead, work in a different key.…
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