May we bask in the goodness of life and the worthiness of our fellow human beings. May we rejoice in labors of love which bring forth the fruits of useful living. May we seek and create an ordered and righteous church and society, furthering the desserts of all: seeding and harvesting the best hope of […]
On Training Ministers: We Get what We Pay For
Many years ago I took a year away from my ministerial preparation at Meadville Lombard Theological School, to do a chaplain residency at a teaching hospital on Chicago’s far north side. I wanted more pastoral practice at the “thin places” between life, death, and meaning. I also wanted the extra year of spiritual guidance/pastoral counseling […]
Little Celebrations #22: Liturgical Quotables
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 […]
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