Each time we close out our reflective time together and return to the wider world, may each of us carry with us a piece of what we gathered. Be it a smile, a piece of a song, a fractal from the warm glow we created in our mutuality, the tiniest spark grows ever greater through […]
On Training Ministers: The Choices We Make
One Irony of the Unitarian side of Unitarian Universalist history, is that we’re structurally descended from New England’s Puritans. As English followers of the notoriously hard-core John Calvin, the Puritans were famously straight-laced. At first blush it would seem strange that Congregationalists, Unitarians, and others among America’s most liberal traditions, trace our lineage to Calvin. […]
Little Celebrations #21: Liturgical Quotables
Our religion calls us to hold truth in our hearts and proclaim it with strength. We do this best in realization, that different eyes ever view the world in different ways. It therefore follows that while truth-speaking may be the soul of virtue, humble listening is also the soul of wisdom. Neither virtue nor wisdom […]
PTSD and the MFC
Unitarian Universalist ministry was a huge, mid-life career change for me. When I made the decision, I didn’t dream I had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It’s a rigorous path. The Unitarian Universalist Association requires self-analysis, years of postgraduate education, and extensive fieldwork. As a final step, the Candidate goes before the UUA’s Ministerial Fellowship Committee […]
Little Celebrations #20: Liturgical Quotables
Of any riches life may bestow, one’s own mind is the brightest gift of all. No barrier blocks it. Neither rain nor snow may sway it from its journey. Only we, ourselves, can destroy this wonderful gift, by choosing to let it lie fallow. Let us use our mind-gift with joy, for the harvesting of […]
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