Originally posted on Truly Open Minds and Hearts:
Sermon by Rev. Rick Davis October 20, 2019 Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane Most of us would probably agree that the bible is a mixed bag, containing as it does passages that are sublime and many that are profoundly disturbing. I do occasionally refer to biblical text…
Category: Christianity
Video Sermon: Rev. Kate Braestrup
Originally posted on Truly Open Minds and Hearts:
This sermon was delivered April 15 at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. https://youtu.be/ZbGnuxwOEUg Copyright 2018 © Kate Braestrup
A New Year, a Fortune, and a Blue Tattoo
Originally posted on Melting-Pot Dharma:
Melting-Pot Dharma has been in a simmering phase as I took a long road trip over the Christmas holiday and now prepare for my seven-day retreat with Lama Surya Das. While on a break from daily blogging, I wanted to post something for the new year, always a time for…
Opinion | The Mythical ‘War on Christmas’ Drives Us Apart; Washington Post
Originally posted on Truly Open Minds and Hearts:
By Mel Harkrader Pine I understand that many of my conservative and libertarian friends believe that the war on Christmas is real, but like much in today’s polarized world, I don’t get it. A Jewish Buddhist Unitarian Universalist Contrarian, I grew up in a Christmas-loving culture. I often…
Snootiness vs a Young Musician Trying to Help
A video helped raise almost $110 million for charity, but it brought a tsunami of criticism for the 26-year-old Ed Sheeran.
Social Justice and Dry Bones
Originally posted on Truly Open Minds and Hearts:
By Rev. Kate Braestrup From the prophet Jeremiah: O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and…
My Muse from Gerichsstaal 600
What we need most in the U.S. is truth and reconciliation. Maybe that’s what the Nuremberg trials represented for Jews, incomplete as they were.
My Life
My spiritual life takes two interconnected (aren’t they all?) paths. I’ll discuss the Buddhist one, the Unitarian Universalist one, and how they connect.
Good Grief
Memoirs by Kate Braestrup and Bryan Stevenson come as close as possible, for us earthlings, to putting religious truths, love and grief into words.
Let’s Dismantle Supremacy
Greed, mismanagement, and cronyism probably existed before the mutation that resulted in white skin.
The Illusion of Group
As liberal religions seek more honest dialogue about race, they bury themselves deeper into racial and ethnic groupings.
TrUUmpism – Sermon – March 19, 2017
TrUUmpism. Yes, that’s a controversial sermon title, but, no, this is not a political sermon. It’s a fresh way of looking at the divisions in the country and what those divisions may teach us as Americans and as Unitarian Universalists.
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