June 2012
2 posts
Christ
rosa—sparks:
I have been biting on this all day. So long, in fact, I am probably going to explode.
There is a massive disconnect and huge void when white people howl and scream about Christianity, Christ and church. For those who have never embraced Christ or are atheist, more power to you. In fact, I am probably some mix of Believer and atheist, myself.
HOWEVER.
I am ALWAYS hurt and...
“In a world of too much information about almost everything, bodily practices can...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World (via isopod)
May 2012
9 posts
“There shall be no needy among you…If there is among you a needy person, one of...”
– Deuteronomy 15:4-12 (via revnaomiking)
Pastoral Prayer for Union Sunday 2012
revlyncox:
Pastoral Prayer for Union Sunday 2012 by Rev. Lyn Cox Spirit of Life, Who draws us together in a web of holy relationships, Make your presence known with us and in us and among us. Remind us that we are not alone in history, Ignite us with the courage of the living tradition. Remind us that we are not alone in entering the future, Anchor us with patience and perseverance. Remind us...
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The Welcome Table Church →
Church doesn’t have to be about attracting and extracting people from one environment, at great expense, and placing them in our environment, always worrying they will leave us, becoming Pepsi people not Coke people; church can be about turning outwards, helping others grow, serving the ends of others, giving ourselves away, incarnating who we are into the greater life, and of course always...
“Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of...”
– Archbishop Oscar Romero (via revnaomiking)
April 2012
2 posts
“Jesus never says a word about homosexuality, but there was one kind of sin that...”
– What does Jesus think about Homosexuality? (via azspot)
March 2012
6 posts
“Learn to do good. Seek justice. Arrest oppressors. Defend orphans. Plead the...”
– Isaiah 1:17 (via -witheverything)
(one of Tuesday’s lectionary readings, actually!)
“Faith is a deep fountain in the soul, below reason, below knowledge, far below...”
– James Freeman Clarke, Messages of Faith, Hope, and Love (1905) Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, p.142 (Unitarian, minister, reformer)
February 2012
15 posts
bibliosaurus:
What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t A Pillar of Salt) hipstergriff:
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first...
librariesandlemonade:
ladyyatexel:
My...
“Care is something other than cure. Cure means “change.” A doctor, a lawyer, a...”
– Henri Nouwen (via azspot)
isopod:
Today, in unexpected moments of beauty: For a class about the parts of a tree, I gave second graders tree trunk cross-sections to examine.
I asked one of the boys what he noticed about the tree trunk cross-section.
He responded, gently touching the rings, that “it looks like when you throw a rock in a pond.”
blogging the qur'an →
Mental Health Ministry - Congregations and Beyond
revnaomiking:
Congregations and Beyond will be most effective if we know our strengths as faith communities and what we are offering to the world, and if teach each other how to share those strengths. The reality is that there are many vital congregations with ministries larger than serving themselves. Sharing the wisdom we already possess with one another is part of how we all grow stronger and...
Where Is My Faith Community?
revnaomiking:
Where is my faith community? My faith community is wherever I can gather with a few others (or a huge number of others) and reorient myself to the Holy, to the transforming work and power of love, to gratitude, generosity, and wonder.
Sometimes that might be in a building. More often, I meet my faith community from known and beloved members to strangers and even enemies out in...
January 2012
9 posts
“Community is not possible without the willingness to forgive one another...”
– Henri Nouwen (via azspot)
“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The...”
– Abraham Heschel (via azspot)
“Being Christian is like being black. It’s a paradox. You grow up. You wonder why...”
– James Cone (via azspot)
Maketh All Things New
revlyncox:
As we look to the year stretching ahead of us, we can be certain of uncertainty. The way we relate to each other is our best bet in terms of preparing for a future we can’t yet know. In this regard, Unitarian Universalism has some things in common with the World Wide Web. This sermon was delivered to the UUs of Fallston on January 8, 2012.
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I love this analogy!
Watchbeingblog:
The Bible as Thomas Jefferson Read Jesus’ Life
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Six years before his death in 1826, Thomas Jefferson constructed a text for his own personal library, which he often read each night for 30 minutes to an hour before bedtime. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth — commonly referred to as The Jefferson Bible — is a compendium of clippings from the four...
“Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your...”
– Saint Augustine (via isopod)
December 2011
14 posts
“The shift from postmodernity to participatory culture means people find their...”
– Dr. Ryan Bolger (via azspot)
How Unitarians Saved Christmas →
So, a few facts before we get to our solstice-centered story this morning: Long before lights and cell phones and t.v.’s and illuminated our homes, the darkness and cold and retreating sun made many people depressed and even rather scared. So, when the ancient people started to see the sun return – as it will on Friday, after the shortest day of the year – these people celebrated the event with...
“We have lived so long with pastors saying, “.. and through the power vested in...”
– Storied Theology (via azspot)
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“[We have forgotten] leisure as “non-activity” —an inner absence of...”
– Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, 1948. This sort of leisure is the prey being hunted to extinction by technology in general and the Internet specifically, and it is this leisure which permits the creation of sustaining human meaning.
(via mills)
And, another short selection from...
“Truth has to be given in riddles. People can’t take truth if it comes charging...”
– —Chaim Potok, from The Gift of Asher Lev
Thanks for reminding me of this mind-enlivening piece of art.
~reblogged by Trent Gilliss, senior editor (via beingblog)