![]() |
Jan Luyken from the Bowyer Bible. Photo: Harry Kossuth |
![]() |
Birch seeds |
Another stunning long-read from @rdevro at @theintercept, who thoughtfully covers @NoMoreDeaths' Scott Warren, about the brutal intersection of #immigration policies, #ClimateChange, and the future of borders. Featuring photos by our friend @ashponders.https://theintercept.com/2019/10/03/climate-change-migration-militarization-arizona/ …
UU LEADERS: This Wednesday, Oct 9th, my monthly training is on mastering your congregation’s PLAN A VISIT strategy! Existing training subscribers, details are in our member area and email announcement. If you’d like to join us, here are all the details https://peterbowden.mykajabi.com/leading-congregations-monthly …pic.twitter.com/fb1j8mNMDi
Home stretch - gig 4 of 4! Playing at Unitarian Universalist Church of Fairfax: Bach, Schumann and several pieces/hymns with the choir. #cellist #cello #unitarianuniversalist @ UUCF-Unitarian Universalist… https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Rw6PPhReE/?igshid=t285j7p55p1g …
I’m on my way to the Wild Maine Witch Camp! My friend Sylvia and I are leading one of the morning workshop series (called a Path), on the topic of Ancestor Wounds and Healing.
Our intention in this path, is to open our lives to the blessings of our ancestors and to healing the wounds we carry from them. This work, for us, is rooted in our understanding that our path as witches is tied up with collective liberation from colonization and oppression, from patriarchy and racism. Connecting with our ancestors is a way to wrestle with our collective history and all that it includes, in order to bring healing and liberation in our times.
I have been blogging about this process with my own ancestors for the last several months, discovering more about the experience of my German and East Frisian immigrant ancestors, and the Quebec story of my French, Innu and Scottish ancestors. I’ve been asking questions about how the stories of my ancestors fit into the larger story of colonization, of relationship to the land, of migration, and belonging. Perhaps I have also been wrestling with the question of whether my European ancestors might have any blessings to offer me. That story is so tangled and broken.
I am looking forward to sharing this work with a group of people in the context of our lives as witches. Our tools will include experiential magical practice, music and chanting, personal sharing, guided meditation and trance work, sacred herbs, and the wisdom of each person in the circle. We will draw on Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects which is based on a cycle of four movements that we will use through our four days together. We will begin with gratitude, then move into honoring our pain, then seeing our connections with new eyes, and finally, going forth.
Perhaps I am hoping to discover if this message from Linda Hogan, Chickasaw writer, also might apply to me:
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way.
Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me.
Be still, they say. Watch and listen.
You are the result of the love of thousands.
Attached media: https://www.dublinunitarianchurch.org/podcasts/061019-sermon.mp3
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
― Thomas Merton
What have you sacrificed to create peace?
The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritual reflection and encourage the creation of a more loving, inclusive and just world. Produced by The Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation with no geographical boundary. Please support the publishing of The Daily Compass by making a $10 or $25 contribution (more if you can, less if you can't)! Thank you for your support!
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
― Thomas Merton
What have you sacrificed to create peace?
The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritual reflection and encourage the creation of a more loving, inclusive and just world. Produced by The Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation with no geographical boundary. Please support the publishing of The Daily Compass by making a $10 or $25 contribution (more if you can, less if you can't)! Thank you for your support!
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Adult Religious Education — 6 October 2019https://allsoulsshreveport.org/site/2019/10/05/adult-religious-education-6-october-2019/ …
#MyBlackIsBLUU @BlackLivesUU is doing some incredible work at the intersection of faith & justice. Black folks looking for spiritual sustenance should really check them out. If nothing else text BLUU to 24251 to get daily affirmations delivered to your phone every day! https://twitter.com/takiyahnamin/status/1180674264640507904 …pic.twitter.com/1Oxvvjl6gr
I believe this is the whole purpose of the Unitarian universalist church.
My current #dj #situation #orhsclassof1999 #class #reunion #oakridge #tn #tennessee #wildcats #rwr @ Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church https://www.instagram.com/p/B3QUz1sh_wa/?igshid=1ovxdf3qcl24k …
Capoeira Batuque Pasadena 7th Batizado Energy build up.... — feeling excited at Throop Unitarian Universalist Church https://www.facebook.com/687746811/posts/10157741058851812/ …
Hey ya'll, I have the privilege of speaking again at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Verdugo Hills. They invited me back! So if you want to come through tomorrow...10:30 in Glendale. I'll be speaking on... https://www.facebook.com/scififreak/posts/10101532836365564 …
We recognize and honor all youth activists fighting for a better world and pushing for action on #ClimateChange - from @GretaThunberg to #indigenous water defenders. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateStrike #StandingRock #Environmenthttps://www.truthdig.com/articles/children-to-adults-do-your-job-so-we-have-a-future/ …
![]() |
Song party hostess Kathleen Taylor belting it out during the 2010 song circle. |
![]() |
A rare and battered copy of the Songbook's first edition published by the Spokane, Washington IWW local. |
![]() |
Carlos Cortez's linocut poster tribute Wobbly bard and martyr Joe Hill. |
![]() |
Industrial Worker editor Ralph Chaplin wrote the enduring labor anthem Solidarity Forever. |
![]() |
The "double tall" 1995 36th edition featured music from around the world as well as old favorites an music for each song. |
![]() |
Bruce "Utah" Phillips introduced the IWW and its songs to a new generation. |
![]() |
Rebel Voices was the realization of a long cherished dream to produce a "Little Red Record." |
![]() |
Almost all of the songs included in the first 36 editions of the Songbook are included in The Big Red Songbook. |
Thousands of survivors of Hurricane Dorian are at risk of being sent back to dangerous conditions. Congress must act now to grant Temporary Protected Status (#TPS)! #LetThemInhttps://www.uusc.org/initiatives/tell-congress-hurricane-dorian-survivors-deserve-protected-status/ …
Steering Committee Meeting 10/6/19 following the Service. Respectful folks are welcome, lunch is not provided.pic.twitter.com/CWsRHIIMbE
"We're only compiling criminal DNA databases with illegal immigrant DNA, not our Unitarian Universalist, Montessori public schoolers, definitely not anyone who ever tweeted support for same sex marriage, ABSOLUTELY not Methodists who want to unionize, NEVER Baptists who refuse to https://twitter.com/AlishaRai/status/1180329515332956160 …
Do you wonder what's happening at the NRUUF and feel like you might be missing out? Maybe you are!! We send out weekly updates by Email and other special announcements. Not on our mailing list yet?? Sign up HERE! https://mailchi.mp/157e2c43b613/nruuflist …pic.twitter.com/wRCW7TIVJ2
I learned a lot about Pangolins— one of the most endangered mammals— from Kay (a very impressive 3rd grader) at the Unitarian Universalist Church's sustainability fair today. This great event has a lot of easy ways we can all play our part in saving our planet.
#MHTpic.twitter.com/q7ust7aoOo
Jonathan Gradess has died. As the long-time head of the NYS Defenders Association he was one of my heroes. A celebration of Jonathan’s life will take place on Thursday, October 10, 4:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany https://images.app.goo.gl/bTLokRid1BvLr3Au6 …
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
How have you creatively transformed a time of suffering?
The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritual reflection and encourage the creation of a more loving, inclusive and just world. Produced by The Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation with no geographical boundary. Please support the publishing of The Daily Compass by making a $10 or $25 contribution (more if you can, less if you can't)! Thank you for your support!
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
How have you creatively transformed a time of suffering?
The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritual reflection and encourage the creation of a more loving, inclusive and just world. Produced by The Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation with no geographical boundary. Please support the publishing of The Daily Compass by making a $10 or $25 contribution (more if you can, less if you can't)! Thank you for your support!
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.