Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Part 1 Some time ago I posted on Facebook one of my all-time favorite Unitarian Universalist jokes: How many UUs (that’s how we shorten our VERY LONG NAME) does it take to change a lightbulb? Here’s the answer: We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the need for a…
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Dear Robert Fulghum, You don’t know me, but I’m a big fan. You’re a Unitarian Universalist minister, like me, and years ago I had the chance to meet you at one of the annual business meetings of our Association, held in June. I was walking down a wide hallway, and the crowd I was in…
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Egy Az Isten
Late last July and early August, I had the great honor of bringing greetings from West Shore to our partner church in the little village of Bagyon, in the Transylvania region of Romania. The minister there, Rev. Bela Fekete, invited me to lead a Sunday service. Since the Unitarianism there is primarily Christian Unitarianism, my…
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I have encountered this Hebrew creation myth countless times and know it as the origin of the tradition of the Sabbath; and I thought I knew what it meant. But recently I learned something new. I did some deep Biblical homework. I checked out what the original Hebrew word translated as “refreshed” really means. That…
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