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Standing Your Sacred Ground
Standing Your Sacred Ground: Unitarian Universalists and Interfaith Leadership You have what I call a ‘theology of interfaith cooperation’ at your fingertips. For those of you who tend toward the...
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July Movie of the Month
Long Strange Trip – Part V ”Evolution” (1861 – 1961) This film follows both Unitarianism and Universalism through the late 19th and early 20th centuries as they evolve from Christian bible-oriented...
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On Being Prickly
The Song of the Porcupine by Beth Anderson One day when god was distracted, I was made between the mouse and the swan. God was thinking feathers and fur, but remembered her newly-formed evergreen...
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Risk the Sacred Journey
Risk the Sacred Journey (by Doris Klein) Each of us stands at the gate of tomorrow, facing the future. At times, we have walked in wonder and awe; at other times, we have moved along in the flood of...
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Who Said That? (July Edition)
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” ~Albert Einstein~ “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost...
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Balance Brings Life
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ~ George Santayana The universe is an amazing place. It is a living, growing entity...
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5 Small Things About Love
1. We decide to love one another not because the other is loveable but because we are loving beings. We love because love is our essence, because we are called to make this love real in the world....
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July Full Moon
The Full Wort Moon 2013 As Unitarian Universalists, we are not bound together by a dogma or creed. We are held together by our mutual respect for the seventh principles. Since it’s the full moon, I...
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A is for Answers
We have all the questions for your answers. ANSWERS. Thomas Jefferson gives this advice: “Questions with reason even the existence of a God because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage...
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MISCELLANIA
A compendium of the silly, the sublime, and the simply outrageous Do you remember the distinction between count- and mass-nouns? A count noun, simply speaking, can be quantified. One bicycle, two...
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Contemplation Tuesday
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalists may engage in prayer, meditation, silent contemplation, worship, and...
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Miscellania
A compendium of the silly, the sublime, and the simply outrageous Huh? If you are what you do, when you don’t, you aren’t. Since octopi (not octopuses? Who knew?) have no bones, their bodies are...
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B is for Beauty
Beauty awakens the soul to act. ~Dante Alighieri B is for Beauty, Blossoms and Bliss: The start of religion is awe for what is! BEAUTY. Awe is where all religions start. The beauty of...
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Take Your Time
Slow Down, People Breathing Everywhere I go this mid-summer season everyone is saying the same thing: summer is flying and I’m too busy and I can’t fit everything in and I’m tired and summer is too...
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5 Small Things Saturday
One of my favorite sources of spiritual wisdom is the teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature....
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Contemplation Tuesday
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ~ William Shakespeare Unitarian Universalists may engage in prayer, meditation, silent contemplation,...
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Happy Pride
PRIDE What have you done today to make you feel proud? This weekend is the FM Pride celebration. Rainbow flags will line Broadway in downtown Fargo. There will be a 5K Pride Run/Walk, karaoke,...
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C is for Church
Our historic home. The FMUU church building was built in 1892. C is for Church, one short hour of retreat. But some go to synagogues, mosques or just meet. CHURCH. UU’s meet in places of worship...
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Contemplation Tuesday
May beings all live happily and safe. ~ The Buddha Unitarian Universalists may engage in prayer, meditation, silent contemplation, worship, and other types of spiritual practice as individuals or...
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D is for Difference
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences. ~ M. Scott Peck D is for Difference enriching our lives where lifestyles are many and openness thrives. DIFFERENCE. In many religions, everyone...
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