Systemic Evil

What Traffic Lights Can Teach Us

Sep 27, 2020

Beloved Community, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

"Tyranny of Structurelessness", accountability, Board of Trustees, delegation, Feminism, organizational design, Senior Minister, Stanford Prison Experiment, Systemic Evil

Recently, I came across a story about a psychological study called the Stanford Prison Experiment. It was 1971, and psychologist Philip Zombardo wanted to explore how people’s behavior is impacted by external circumstances. The idea that individuals possess unlimited freedom to pave their own path through life and go their own way is as American…
The Story of Unitarian Universalist Faith

Sep 20, 2020

Beloved Community, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Social Events, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

covanentalism, Earth-Centered Traditions, Humanism, Jesus, orthodoxy, Principles and Purposes, Prophetic Women, Radical Reformers, Scientific Theism, Six Sources, Systemic Evil, Transcendentalism, Unitarian Universalism

You know how it is when you’ve taken a thing for granted, and then something shifts and all of a sudden you’re seeing it as if for the first time? That happened for me not too long ago, with something that is printed in every one of our church hymnals, right at the beginning and…