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Room for Misunderstanding: Proxemics and the Platinum Rule
Last week, I facilitated a day-long workshop for a delightful group of....
Some Reflections on the Small of Paradox and Paradox of Small (sermon)
delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pittsfield, MA today Small—capitol S-- embodies inherent spiritual paradox. It exudes a spiritual mandate to hold insignificant and vast in the same breath, minute and cosmic in the same....
New Name, No Name, All Names: On Dukkha and any Afterlife
…, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new....
In Search of CEU's: Portion Size and a Day Misspent
I spent much of today at a mediocre workshop.Mediocre? How mediocre? It was....
Seeds & Spiritual Transformation (sermon)
(This sermon was given at Village Church in Cummington, MA, on February 16, 2014. Like many small, old churches in New England, it cannot afford to heat its sanctuary in the winter, so the congregation gathers in the vestry or parish hall for....
Divine Mandates, Community Ministry & Beyond Congregations
Because the online world of UU bloggers and social media pundits, not to....
Seven Principles & Bonhoeffer's Divine Mandates
In my Intro to Christian Ethic class, which is being taught much more like an....
Love & Solidarity
When one is in the metro Boston area and there is some UU event, it’s likely, perhaps even highly likely, there will be those in attendance who represent myriad congregations and probably some free-range Unitarian Universalists. That’s the benefit....
The Five-Second Rule & Communion Wafers
As one of my colleagues introduced himself on the first day of class, he said....