Patriarchy
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Today is part 7 in our year-long exploration of love. As we have done six other times before, with the inspiring bell hooks as our guide, we’re going to “pause to create a place to do the work of Love in our lives” with Love defined as “the will to extend one’s self for the…
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August 27, 2023 Dear Wonder Woman, From the time I was around eight years old, I began to do something different after school. Usually I would walk from Riverside Elementary School to my Dad’s medical office. They were close to each other, and Dad’s office was a safer place to be than my own home.…
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How to Be More Non-Judgmental
Today we are exploring judgmentalism and what can be done about it. Judgmentalism, as in: This must be distinguished from discernment, which enables us to be fair and reasonable in distinguishing between what is genuinely medicine and what is genuinely poison, what is truly helpful and what is truly harmful, who is honestly a friend…
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Liberation from Body Shame
In her poem “homage to my hips,” Lucille Clifton says: these hips are big hips they need space to move around in. they don’t fit into little petty places. these hips are free hips. they don’t like to be held back. these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they…
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December 13, 2020 Dear Confucius, More than 2500 years has passed since the time you walked this earth. Since then, you have become known as one of history’s greatest teachers. Billions of people have been put on the path of authentic personhood because of you—first in China, and now the world. I am deeply, deeply…
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Perhaps you are aware of Unitarian Universalism’s Seven Principles, a denominational statement which articulates values and attitudes that cut across all our differences of opinion—a statement which unites us and gives us a common core. But have you ever heard of the Seven Anti-Unitarian Universalist Principles? (The answer is NO, because I cooked them up…
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