Using techniques like muon radiography and ultrasound, scientists have identified a previously unknown chamber within the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Continue reading Scans reveal hidden chamber in Great Pyramid at The Wild Hunt.

Our theme for March is "The Path of Vulnerability." We begin by looking at the barriers to our own vulnerability.

    CENTERING OUR HEARTS 112 Pointers for the Practices of Presence Wandering around the spiritual bazaar that was the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s, and reading what was available, through a combination of good luck and mysterious karma  I stumbled on a book, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, by Nyogen Senzaki and […]

It snowed on the mountains around the bay this week, including Mount Tam which I have climbed. In this photo from a ridge trail in the Marin Headlands I was able to take this pic of Angel Island with Mt Diablo in the far distance. The devil mountain is the one with snow on top, […]

Early in her career Patsy Cline worked in cowgirl outfits that her mother designed and hand made. There may not be a Don McLean song to commemorate the occasion, but sixty years ago, March 5, 1963, was surely another day the music died.  On that day a small plane carrying Patsy Cline and fellow Grand Ol’ Opry stars Cowboy Copas and Hankshaw Hawkins went down on the way home to Nashville from a Kansas City benefit.  The three stars and two others were killed in the crash in remote woods near Camden, Tennessee.   Learning that the plane was missing in the area friends from Nashville joined in the frantic search.  The crash site was discovered by Roger Miller, one of the many young artists Cline had mentored.  Roger Miller, overcome...

“Gonna keep on moving forward, keep on moving forward, keep on moving forward, Never turning back, never turning back.” – Emma’s Revolution What music inspires you to keep going?

Individual freedoms that we take for granted, such as the right to live, walk, play, where one wishes or to speak freely about any subject disappears when authoritarianism descends upon a country. Continue reading Opinion: Is This a Moment, Movement, or Memory? at The Wild Hunt.

On Seeing “Living,” a Small Spiritual Classic I don’t do a lot of film reviews at this blog. Mostly because the majority of the movies we go to don’t quite earn a pause to reflect on what I’d seen. Fluff, by and large. And, honestly, what I like. But this time around even I was […]

Please join us on Sunday (5 March 2023) at 11:00 AM for “The Transience of Solutions” by Rev. Barbara Jarrell. We will be meeting in the sanctuary for this worship service.  Please join us in person at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106 if you are able to do so. Our … Continue reading "All Ages Worship (5 March 2023)"

Congregational Meeting Announcement (5 March 2023) 2023 Pledge Drive — We Need Your Pledge Now 17 March 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Party

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to an organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist principles and values. For the month of March 2023, we choose Home is Here Shreveport (based on the program by the same name in New Orleans). All Souls members have joined with others in … Continue reading "Home is Here Shreveport — March 2023 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient"

Children and youth will attend the worship service for the first 15-20 minutes and then are dismissed to their classes. We are now discussing peace, social justice, and the interdependent web and these ideas connect to our Unitarian Universalist faith. More details to be announced on this later today (please see our weekly email newsletters … Continue reading "Children and Youth Religious Education Classes — 5 March 2023"

Please join us on Sunday (5 March 2023) as we continue our new series in our our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM. Our adult religious education class is still meeting via Zoom. We have several persons in the adult religious education class who are new to our faith tradition and others who would … Continue reading "Online Adult Religious Education — 5 March 2023"

Please join us on Friday (17 March 2023) from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM for the resumption of our annual St. Patrick’s Day Party featuring the music of Bob Jordan and friends. The suggested donation of $10.00 at the door (or whatever you can pay — don’t let money keep you away).  Kids get in … Continue reading "17 March 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Party"

We are announcing time and location for next congregational meeting: Date:  Sunday, 5 March 2023 Time:  1215 PM Location:  All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church (9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106) or on Zoom. On the Agenda: Realities of the 2023 Budget We must have a quorum. Congregational meetings are open to all but only active … Continue reading "Congregational Meeting Announcement (5 March 2023)"

Please join us next Tuesday (7 March 2023) at 12 noon for our weekly Zoom lunch. Our weekly Zoom lunch is going dual-platform — join us from home using Zoom or in person in the social hall. Bring your lunch and meet up with your All Souls friends, have lunch, and just catch up.

  The Town of Chicago was incorporated in 1833, four years before the place became a chartered City. It’s official.   Today is the 186th birthday of the City of Chicago.   Must be.   It says it right there on the official seal, “Incorporated March 4, 1837.”   Well, that just makes it the birthday of an official municipal incarnation.   Other dates could also be the occasion for breaking out the birthday cake, depending on your taste. The City, being the City, of course prefers the date when the Illinois General Assembly issued it official letter or marque granting it exclusive rights to legally fleece the citizenry within its boundaries.   In the good ol ’ days, say back in the reignsof Jane Byrne or Daley the Younger the ...

When I am between projects, I often read poetry and dip into surrealism in order to spark something new. I was reading a book of surrealist games. The surrealist movement was an answer to the tyranny of the rational, a quest to unleash the power of the unconscious in art making. The exercises in the […]

The gentle persistence of water is a wise teacher. It can easily give way, bending around the stones in its path. It will change directions to find a way to keep flowing to its destiny. And, over time, it can literally reshape the Earth just by flowing . . . patiently . . . persistently. … Continue reading Water

Lyonel Perabo reviews Jackson Crawford's "The Wanderer's Havamal," a translation of the Old Norse wisdom poem alongside several additional texts. Continue reading Review: Jackson Crawford’s “The Wanderer’s Hávamál” at The Wild Hunt.

        Ensō Verde: Considering a Zen Inspired Retirement Community Yesterday, Jan & I attended one of the inaugural orientation sessions for Ensō Verde in Simi Valley. And we are excited. Beyond excited. We think we may have seen our future… We have been exploring the possibilities for Continuing Care Residential Communities, increasingly […]

I never planned on a career in publishing. After working in public accounting, I was offered a position at The Thomson Corporation in their publishing division. I thought I would try that for a few years and move onto something else. Shortly afterwards, I moved to their educational publishing group and ended up there for the next thirty years.

Our ministerial theme for the month of March is Vulnerability. Join us this Sunday, March 5h, for an experiential exploration of the theme. We will begin worship together in the Sanctuary and then divide into smaller groups for Exploration activities. Childcare will be provided, however children of all ages are welcomed and encouraged to participate in   [ … ] The post Sunday, March 5 ~ Explorations Multigenerational Worship Service: Vulnerability ~ 10:30 a.m. appeared first on Unitarian Church of Marlborough and Hudson.

Bob and I dated briefly in college. We broke up twice. The first time we probably needed space to see what else was out there. The second time we were afraid to commit to a future of unknowns for two … Continue reading →

A Prayer for Dreaming A World Made Whole With Gender Justice for week of March 6, 2023 Lover of Dreaming, dream with us a world made whole with gender justice, a world in which a multitude of experiences, understandings and expressions of gender can be honored, and experienced as non-competing...

My mom used to tell me every time I wanted to give up that it was too early. Because I was naturally good at some things, I thought not being good the first time in others meant I was failing. One day she said to me, ‘You will never learn if you don’t practice. Persistence … Continue reading Gift

Statue representing Janus Bifrons in the Vatican Museums  A short  “ thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful   Meditation   (Click on this link to hear a recorded version of the following piece) —o0o— One of the things I have noticed during the course of my 33 year-long involvement with the Unitarian tradition is that many, and perhaps most, people who have joined it since the end of the Second World War turn out to be Philosophical Pragmatists of one sort or another. In its most minimal form, Philosophical Pragmatism attempts to evaluate all theories or beliefs in terms of the success (or not) of their practical application. And so Unitarian ministers (like me)...

  The stunning program cover for the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington. The giant Women’s March on Washingtonand sister marches across the country that greeted Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017 and they-said-it-couldn’t-be-done even larger marches a year later were seismic events that brought a broad , united, new intersessional feminism to the forefront of American social and political life after years on the defense as hard-fought gains once thought secure were under attack at every level. Mass demonstrations no matter how large, critics maintained, had lost their power as the media lost interest in them and the public became bored.   Huge anti-war demonstrations that broke all records were barely covered b...

Yesterday’s post on the different ways white people, and people of color, respond to charismatic megafauna and mesafauna got me thinking about a recent post by Desireé Melonas at the Blog of the APA. She went to Africatown, in Mobile, Alabama, as part of a group that received a grant to develop environmental justice curriculum … Continue reading "Soundscapes and ecojustice"

I’m still slowly making my way through is Fear of Black Consciousness, by Lewis Gordon. I’ll read a few pages, which will get me thinking hard about something, I’ll go follow those thoughts for a while, until eventually I come back to Lewis Gordon’s book. The latest bit that’s sending me off on a tangent … Continue reading "An interesting anecdote"

I have a small baking business. Before I was issued Cottage my license I had to pass a course at the health department  and then inspectors came into my home, opened my cabinets, looked inside of my refrigerator, and asked … Continue reading →

Glastonbury Occult Conference was back this year with a full schedule of events and speakers, unmarred by the extreme weather of last year but missing one of its main organisers. Continue reading Glastonbury Occult Conference 2023 at The Wild Hunt.

The right wing echo chamber was abuzz comparing their claims of a stolen election with the 1876 contest that was decided by an Electoral Commission.  More mainstream outlets like  Salon  also considered the case. Getting nostalgic for those final weeks of the last Resident as one by one his ludicrous attempts to over-turn the Presidential election results were shot down by the courts?  His last desperate attempt focused on January 6, the day that a joint session of Congress was scheduled to certify the Electoral College results and officially declare a winner.  You will recallhow that turned out, insurrection and all. The Cheeto hung his hopes on the slender thread that Vice President Mike Pence would simply refuseto certify the vot...

The Rainbow Group at the Clear Springs School will be learning to tell time during "T week," which begins this next week and they study words that start with the letter T. So, as you can see,  we made clocks. I prepared the material and provided instruction. The kids, with help, used letter stamps to place the numerals on front. Make, fix and create...

      The Prophet Mani and Christianity’s Problem with Dualism James Ishmael Ford The prophet Mani died on this day, the 2nd of March in the year 274. That is unless he died on the 26th of February, in 277. His birth name is unknown, Mani is a title, probably meaning Enlightened Lord. He […]

Persistence is the will to survive. It is the audacity to bend the arc of the universe towards justice. It is community care, stubbornness, and courage in the face of injustice. Persistence takes many forms in many different circumstances. What does persistence mean in your life?

Science fiction author (and former librarian) Karl Drinkwater is leaving social media: “…I’m going to close my social media accounts. They tie you in by becoming a habit. They tie you in by making you think you need continuous reinforcement. They tie you in with follower counts, and the implicit threat that if you walk … Continue reading "Another who’s leaving social media"

 Join us at 11am every Saturday during March 2023 for an hour of silence as a prayer vigil for climate justice.We hold silence: • As an act of grief for the climate and ecological catastrophe unfolding, particularly affecting people in the Global South. • As an act of protest to demand the UK Government acts with urgency to reach net zero carbon as fast and justly as possible, ensuring energy is

CBP 1 has been in existence since 2020, but still causes concern around privacy, confidentiality.

Reflecting on Nonduality and Zen and the Shape of a Spiritual Life Today James Ishmael Ford A couple of years ago David Loy’s monumental study Nonduality was released in a second edition. That book was very important to me in the first edition, and new edition invited me to a second look. As I noted […]

Lane-Mairead Campbell 12-Step recovery has provided me with perspective, forgiveness, and freedom from shame. Continue reading "Generous of Heart"

Talking about vulnerability is hard.  Asking people to be vulnerable is a hard sell in this culture where being tough, denying grief, perfectionism, and always having to win in order to feel good for a minute are common expectations. The … Continue reading →

Note— Back in 2017 I seemed to have awakened channeling a Trumpista…</span> Well, that was close!   The country just escaped the annual ordeal of Black History Month.   There should be an investigation into that.   Clearly a Barack Hussain Obama Muslim Commie Plot to bring this Great Country to its knees .   We have to endure those smug Black History Minutes on our TVs and other assaults on White goodness. Now no sooner is that nightmare behind us than we discover the whole damn month of March is supposed to be given over to Women ’ s History!   Don’t get me wrong, I adore women.   Love ‘em to death!   I always open the door for Ladies and tip my MAGA cap to them.   My sainted Mother was a woman and my wife—when she i...

The Martenitsa (мартеница) hung up outside our house this morning Susanna, my wife, spent the first six years of her life in Bulgaria and, as some of you may know, there is in that country a tradition of wearing, or hanging up on a tree, a martenitsa  on March 1st, Baba Marta (Grandma March) Day. Although, we don’t have any close Bulgarian connections today, Susanna and I still often mark the day—as we did this morning. Happy Baba Marta (Grandma March) Day!  

If we lived in a Pagan society where offerings were a regular part of our culture, we’d grow up seeing how this is done. We don’t, so we have to learn from what we know about our ancestors, and from each other. This is my experience with what to offer.

“Each child connects us to nature, to the innocence and exuberance of a world always hatching newborns: kittens and pups and lambs and babes” -Gary Kowalski What connects you to innocence and exuberance today?

Members are coordinating a collection of winter clothes to bring to Espanola Pathways Shelter. Large boxes will be out in front of the church with lists based on what the shelter most needs now. Winter clothes will clearly be some of the key items. For additional information or to join the team, please contact Margie …<p> Espanola Pathways Shelter Winter Clothes Drive Read More »

I’m not sure if this one is finished. I had envisioned many more fragments of words falling and heaped up, and I’m not sure if I paused here because it is done, or because I got tired of gluing tiny rectangles of paper. I’ll look at it afresh tomorrow and see.

  First thing this morning, just as I was waking up, a new jig passed through my thoughts connected with a way to add hidden splines to a mitered lid. It is interesting how the mind works. With the jig being made, I'm ready to test it and see if it does what I dreamed it will do. Make, fix and create. Assist others in learning lifewise.

Taken with a Fuji X100V, straight out of camera using Marcel Fraijs’s “Acros Dark” recipe.   Just click on the photo to enlarge it. Taken on Sunday 26th February 2023 whilst out for a short, and chilly, afternoon stroll after finishing the morning service.  

TWH correspondent Elyse Welles reports on the celebrations of Fallifloria that took place in Greece this February. Continue reading The Falliforia: Dionysus is Celebrated Across Greece at The Wild Hunt.

Capitalism says go-go-go at all costs. And the Earth is bearing the brunt of such foolishness. Rest and restoration are deeply important for our well-being. Dormancy and ebullience are a part of the seasons in nature and we are part of nature so we need ... read more . The post March Theme: Sustenance & Sustainability appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

Children in Kindergarten through 6 th grade will start in the Great Hall for the first part of the service. Afterwards, they will meet in their own rooms: Wonderful Welcome (K-3 rd grade) in the classroom next to the dining room Love Connects Us (4 th -6 ... read more . The post Religious Education this Sunday (March 5th) appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

The UUSS Board of Trustees, in consultation with Dr. Kim Kilby, has been evaluating whether it is time to make changes to our policies around masking in worship. Schenectady County is now back in the “green” meaning that community risk level is deemed low by ... read more . The post Update on Masking Policies appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

What is a Covenant Group? Why are they called that? Covenant groups are small groups of people who will meet to have conversations about some of life’s big questions. These groups are more focused than a chat after a Sunday morning service, but they’re not study groups. ... read more . The post UUSS Covenant Groups Qs & As appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

The LGBTQ group will have its first meeting on March 24, 2023 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM in the UUSS Fireplace Room. The purpose of the group is to create a space for the UU LGBTQ community to come together. If interested in learning more, please contact Jen Pritchard at jeniferpritchard@ymail.com for details. Masks ... read more . The post UUSS LGBTQ Group is Forming! appeared first on Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady.

On February 21, 2023, Side With Love Create Climate Justice, Interfaith Power & Light, and others hosted a webinar on Planning the Energy Future of Your Congregation .  Learn about the importance of benchmarking your facilities’ energy use to shape your congregation’s plan to cut energy costs and care for our sacred Earth. This is the first step to making a plan to take advantage of federal funding, like the Inflation Reduction Act. Presenters include: Jerry Lawson, National Manager of EPA’s Energy Star for Small Businesses and Congregations; Sarah Paulos, Interfaith Power & Light’s Cool Congregations Program Director and Tom Hackley from People’s Church of Kalamazoo, MI. This webinar is part of a series hosted by Interfaith P...

Jeff Milchen Rev. Viola Abbitt's unconventional path from DA's office to the ministry is a story of UU faith and principle.

Not the World Wide Web, but the infinite, all that is, was and ever will be Web of Life? Is it love that holds all of “THIS” together? Is the illusion of separation and our transactional culture pulling this web … Continue reading →

Cindy Fesgen invites us to light our chalices “cherishing our differences and holding each other in sacredness.” So much of friendship is cherishing what makes us different from each other, and still finding the sacred things that connect us. How do you cherish differences?

Long before Rihanna,  i n 1972 Ella Fitzgerald sang  Mac the Knife  with trumpeter Al Hirt at Super Bowl VI in New Orleans as part of a tribute to Louis Armstrong.  Broadway star Carol Channing also performed.  They became the first celebrity artists to perform at the Super Bowl and Ella was the first Black woman.   Ella Fitzgerald is regarded by many as the greatest female singer of the 20th Century and there is plenty of competition.  Her career spanned decades from a novelty song specialist as a teenager to the undisputed First Lady of Song.  She sang with big bands, invented scat singing, moved seamlessly to jazz improvisation in the bebop era, and reinterpreted the canon of the Great American Songbook introducing generation...

Spell work is not just waving your hands; rattle off some words and voila. This was one of many reasons I left Catholicism: I was just blindly going through the motions; no feelings involved. Spell and work are two words that may look and sound easy. However, it’s the second word that is more important […] The post Spell work is not hocus pocus – it takes intent and effort appeared first on Nature's Sacred Journey.

Conservative lawyer David French is now writing a column for the New York Times. Yoicks. A conservative writing for the bastion of liberalism in the U.S.? Well, according to this opinion piece, French had the temerity to stand up for his “commitment to the classical liberal ideal of government as neutral guarantor of free expression … Continue reading "To all my progressive friends and compatriots"

In this week's Pagan Community Notes: Cornell apologizes to the Oneida Indian Nation, a jury foreperson accused of being a witch, upcoming events, and more news. Continue reading Pagan Community Notes: Week of February 27, 2023 at The Wild Hunt.

 Disclosure: Some of the links below (whether the link is associated with an image or text) are affiliate links, meaning that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.  My Christian Fellowship group at church has just started reading Karen Armstrong's A CASE FOR GOD.  In her introduction, she states her intent to show through history that humans have always wanted to know more about the transcendent, no matter what it is called or how it is defined.  To prepare for reading more, I listened to a radio interview Ms. Armstrong gave to NPR in September 2009. This is the final exchange between Terry Gross of "Fresh Air" and Ms. Armstrong: GROSS: Now, you know, your view of religion is...

A Zen Meditation on Christian Communion James Ishmael Ford As anyone interested in Christian origins no doubt knows, the informed assumption of the academic community is that between Jesus’ death and the writing of the gospels there appear to have been two traditions passed on, orally for sure, possibly in writing as well. One was […]

As we mark the solemn one-year anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine, we offer this prayer of comfort, courage, wisdom and compassion. We hold our siblings in Ukraine near our hearts and in our prayers at this time and always. — uua.org Spirit of Life, God of Justice, Mother of Creation,You call us to embody equity and freedom in our lives.You are present in every struggle to overcome oppression with peace and justice.And though our siblings in Ukraine are half a world away from us, we seek to be as near to them as we might in spirit and in prayer.Strengthen […] The post A Prayer for People in War appeared first on BeyondBelief.

It is late February as I write this, and more insistently than usual, spring seems to be fully upon us. This morning while out for some quiet time in the backyard near the edge of the woods, I saw this … Continue reading →

“To the blessings of warm, accepting human relationship, may our hearts be open and our minds take heed, for in a lonely and sometimes frightening world, friendship is often the support that upholds us.” -Ken Sawyer How have friends supported you through difficult times?

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services. This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats. For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live.  One does not have to log into Facebook … Continue reading "26 February 2023 Worship Livestreaming Video"

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services. This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats. For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live.  One does not have to log into Facebook … Continue reading "19 February 2023 Worship Livestreaming Video"

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services. This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats. For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live.  One does not have to log into Facebook … Continue reading "12 February 2023 Worship Livestreaming Video"

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, we have begun to broadcast a livestream video of our Sunday morning worship services. This worship video will be available live and in recorded formats. For our livestream video of our worship services, we are using Facebook Live.  One does not have to log into Facebook … Continue reading "5 February 2023 Worship Livestreaming Video"

Following up on yesterday’s post, I decided to draft a brief biography of gospel composer A. B. Windom — just in time for the last few days of Black History Month. Aaron Bash Windom, better known as A. B. Windom, was born on September 11, 1910, in Missouri. Nothing is known about his early years. … Continue reading "Aaron Bash Windom"

In the first of a new occasional series, weekend editor Eric O. Scott looks back at Jean Cocteau's 1946 classic, La Belle et la Bête, with an eye to its Pagan themes. Continue reading Classics of Pagan Cinema: La Belle et La Bête at The Wild Hunt.

as preached February 26, 2023 at Bay Area Unitarian Universalist Church, Houston, Texas There is much in the ordinary life of a religious professional that more secular people find extraordinary. A friend recently reminded of this over dinner. A word about my friend, he is a well-known writer and war correspondent. Most of us would […] The post Ordinary/Extraordinary; an ordination sermon for J Sylvan appeared first on Colin Bossen.

Some of our members discuss why they are Unitarian Universalists.

It’s funny how we count so much in terms of years. Birthdays are the most obvious, and I had my 73rd one of those this week. But we also make note of a lot of other anniversaries. Celebrating wedding anniversaries are common and a lot of couples also celebrate the anniversaries of their first date. […]

                                           Jan Ernst Matzeliger. the immigrant mulatto who didn't seem to fit in anywhere. On May 19, 1885 Jan Ernst Matzeliger ’s revolutionary Shoe Lasting Machine was introduced into productionat a Lynn , Massachusetts factory .   Within a few years American production of factory-made shoes exploded and costs per pair to consumersdropped more than 50%.   Lynn became the centerof a major industry.   Matzeliger’s road to being an inventor was anything but ordinary .   He was born in 1852 in Paramaribo , Dutch Guiana (now Surinam) in South America the son of a Dutch engineer and a local Black woman.   Matzeliger inherited his father’s talent for mechanical equipment, wo...

Some of our members discuss why they are Unitarian Universalists.

    Recalling Johnny Cash & A Consideration of Love as a Zen Koan Or, How to Become a Buddha of Fire James Ishmael Ford Burning burning burning burning O Lord Thou Pluckest me out O Lord thou pluckest T. S. Eliot, the Waste Land Johnny Cash was born on this day, the 26th of […]

So this project turns out to be harder than I thought. I’ve gone back to Josiah Royce and am one-quarter of the way through with the book in which he coined the phrase and the concept. I’ve also done some digging in Howard Thurman’s and Martin King’s writing. The one thing I’m confident in saying … Continue reading Beloved Community: It’s hard to describe! →

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a “national divorce” is not a call for a second Civil War. It’s worse, because her vision of states’ rights on steroids is entirely possible. We’re already headed in that direction. We need to stop it while we still can.

                                Take My Hand, Precious Lord  by the Rev. Thomas A, Dorsey sung by Aretha Franklyn. As a mostly humanist Unitarian Universalist . I am skeptical of the theology behind Rev. Thomas A.Dorsey’s gospel song Take My Hand , Precious Lord .   I am not into anthropomorphic gods benignor otherwise who personally respond to petitionary prayer.   I am more of an unknowable spiritual Greater that reflects a harmony of all existence in the Cosmos kind of guy.   But there is no denying that millions take great comfort in a personal and loving God.   And who am I to naysay them. Moreover, when I experience a great and soaring gospel song, I am on board with any Black Baptist congregation and for ...

I recently read a poem about friends being with us for a reason, a season, or, if we are very lucky, for a lifetime. I used to think if I didn’t hold on to my friends past the reason or season, I must be fundamentally flawed, but I am learning that it’s okay to mourn, … Continue reading A Reason, A Season

I regularly engage in “magnet fishing” on the web, but instead of old bicycle frames I hope to find connections to resources that might not otherwise be found. In this case, it’s for my current research but other times I’ll Google a fragment of the Winchester Profession. You’d be amazed what that scares up: sometimes … Continue reading "UUs and the lost web"