January 2012
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“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)
“God’s true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit.
As if utterance fit into...”
– Kazim Ali, “Home,” Bright felon: autobiography and cities (2009), p. 86-90. (via countedsorrowscountedjoys)
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Making a Fist / Naomi Shihab Nye
librariesandlemonade:
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me, a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear. I was seven, I lay in the car watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass. My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin. “How do you know if you are going to die?” I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days. With...
“Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without...”
– 10 Myths Many Religious People Hold About Atheists, Debunked (via the-sexpat-life)
“One of the greatest failures of Christians in this country is when they don’t...”
– Jim Wallis (via azspot)
Obama delivers very Christian message at Christmas... →
In his remarks at Thursday’s tree lighting, Obama said that Jesus “grew up to become a leader with a servant’s heart who taught us a message as simple as it is powerful: that we should love God, and love our neighbor as ourselves.”
“So long as the gifts and the parties are happening, it’s important for us to keep in mind the central message of this season,” he said, “and keep Christ’s...
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November 2011
9 posts
“An atheist loves his fellow man instead of god. An atheist believes that heaven...”
– Definition of atheism given to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Murray v. Curlett, 374 U.S. 203, 83 S. Ct. 1560, 10 L.Ed.2d (MD, 1963)
I met this woman at Vanderbilt when I was teenaged fundamentalist. She did me more good in ten minutes than anyone else ever did. (via...
Bay Area clergy give active religious presence to... →
progressivepatriotgirl:
Comprehensive, local piece. Read on!
My peeps!
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Seven Blunders of the World by Mohandas Gandhi
tumblrtribune:
1. Wealth without Work
2. Pleasure without Conscience
3. Science without Humanity
4. Knowledge without Character
5. Politics without Principle
6. Commerce without Morality
7. Worship without Sacrifice
“Not only by the researches of science are we shown the glories of creation, but...”
– Olympia Brown (Universalist, minister, reformer)
“What I know about being inclusive, crossing from culture to culture to culture,...”
– Rosemary Bray McNatt (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
October 2011
7 posts
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“I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only...”
– Gandhi, Young India, May 21, 1925 (via The essential Gandhi: an anthology of his writings on his life, work and ideas by Gandhi (Mahatma) and Louis Fischer, 2002, p. 175)
September 2011
15 posts
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“God will take us back in love;
God will cover up out iniquities,
God will...”
– Michah 7:19
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לשנה טובה
awanderingjew:
L’shanah tovah! Happy New Year!
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However hard I try...
simplyorthodox:
“However hard I try, I find it impossible to construct anything greater than these three words, ‘Love one another’ — only to the end, and without exceptions: then all is justified and life is illumined, whereas otherwise it is an abomination and a burden.”
–Mother Maria of Paris
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“An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never...”
– Coretta Scott King (via messily) in a speech to National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Washington, DC, September 26, 1981. (via hummingbrdheart)
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“For those about to take my life, may God have mercy on your souls, may God bless...”
– —Troy Anthony Davis, speaking to the prison officials who executed him by lethal injection at 11:08 in a Georgia prison last night, according to an eyewitness account from an Associated Press reporter.
About the photo: A demonstrator outside the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in...
It's not really reading unless you have to unroll...
lemdi:
[image: photo of the book of Genesis in scroll form]
“A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of...”
– Oscar Romero (via azspot)
“If you’re going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can’t pick and choose...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via azspot)
