READING ~ Transgender 101: Identity, Inclusion, and Resources, 10 Ways to be More Welcoming and Inclusive of Transgender People, (UU General Assembly 2015 workshop Are All Welcome Here? Congregational Engagement with Gender…
Sermons
READING ~ Listening Is an Act of the Heart by Leslie Takahashi One: Listening is not an act of the ear, listening is an act of the heart. Many: In…
Part One: The Path of Courage – Indigenous People READING ~ Ladder to the Light, An Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope and Courage. By Steven Charleston. Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2021.…
READING ~ Once to Every Soul and Nation is a hymn based on the much longer poem "The Present Crisis" (1845) by James Russell Lowell (1819 -1891). It was written…
READING ~ from The Atlantic - June 1862 Henry David Thoreau, “Walking” I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the…
READING ~ A Few Thoughts About Labor and Giving Sophocles - Without labor nothing prospers. Greek - 497 BCE Ovid - Take rest. A field that has rested gives a…
READING ~ Ancient Text – Matthew 22:36 - 40 36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God…
READING ~ Wheatley, Margaret J.. Who Do We Choose to Be?: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Kindle Edition. “I know it is possible to experience grace and…
If we are to give rise to a new civilization worthy of our highest ideals and deepest values, it will be the cultivating spirit of the river of human freedom…
Words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love; ~ Unitarian Universalist…