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.…
Sermons
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 ~ On Feeling Melancholy, The School of Life Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZ1EmPOE_k&t=165s Our first reading is from The School of Life, an online compendium of tips and tools for mental wellbeing. This…
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…
OPENING WORDS by Rev. Sheri Prud’homme There comes a time When suffering weighs too heavy on the heart, When powerlessness passes through rate into shimmering acceptance of brutal truth,…
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…
