William Wordsworth

Paradise In This Life

May 14, 2023

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Stewardship, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness, World Religions

authoritarianism, Gero Cross, Good Shepherd, Jane Lead, moral perfectionism, Rebecca Parker, Rita Nakashima Brock, Saving Paradise, Survival strategies, trauma, Universalism, William Wordsworth

The historic Universalist side of our religion says something powerful. It says, “Love the hell out of this world!” Say that with me: “Love the hell out of this world!” And we can do that, because, as Universalism teaches, hell is a human creation and therefore healed through human effort. Efforts of many kinds. Feeding…
What It’s Like to Walk the Labyrinth

Jan 15, 2023

Beloved Community, Holidays and Holy Days, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

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What it’s like to walk the labyrinth. What it was like when I walked it, as quite a few of you did with me this past January 1st here at West Shore. Let me describe it in present tense, to more vividly bring the past into the here-and-now moment. Easing into it, honestly–honestly–I find myself…