Parker Palmer
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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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When I was eight years old, I saw a movie called Escape to Witch Mountain. People called me Tony back then, and it just so happened that one of the movie’s main characters was a boy also named Tony, about my age, together with his sister, named Tia. Tony and Tia were brother and sister…
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Metaphors are powerful. Entire cultures fall under their sway. They can put us to sleep, and even as we think we are spiritually and intellectually awake, we are snoring our lives away. It is said that the master metaphor of our culture is the American Dream fantasy of a permanent blue-sky season for busyness and…
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Dreams. Not the ones we have while sleeping. But the dreams we have while awake, about the positive things we hope come true for ourselves and for the people we care about. We have a lot of those dreams, don’t we? Of course. This is how we move forward in life. Unitarian Universalist spiritual ancestor…
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