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It's okay to have the holiday blues. For some people it's true all the time, and for others it happens every now and then. The holidays arrive, and it's not a happy time. If you are missing someone who has died or left your life forever, this Read More...
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The news is that a radio station has already started playing Christmas music, the idea being that people need a lift from all the woeful tidings of the season. Excuse me, but what happened to Thanksgiving? I get a lift from giving thanks, especially when Read More...
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Recently a group of pastors chose a special day for a kind of protest. They wanted to affirm their right to recommend candidates for public office from the pulpit. The consequence of doing this is supposed to have to do with the tax-exempt status of churches Read More...
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They started by calling themselves an Earth-based spirituality group, but that was confusing. We have a lot of scientific types who want there spirituality to reflect what we know about the Earth and our place in the universe, so when they would show Read More...
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Children grow up anyway. They grow up first into teenagers, ultimately into adults. They need to make some decisions about what they believe and how they want to act in the world, personal decisions they can always come back to, that is, if they want Read More...
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When I read that there are more people out there in the world who claim to be Unitarian or Unitarian Universalist than there are members of our congregations, I am really confident that we have quite a congregation out there of folks who say they are Read More...
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Yes, there are atheists and agnostics who want to gather with others on Sunday morning. At the Unitarian Univesalist Church, worship language is open enough to include them, along with others who are less reluctant about the holy. Something happens, these Read More...
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At our Unitarian Universalist congregation in Manchester, summer is a quiet time. We have simple, small, services on Sunday mornings, led by members of the congregation. When children come, they either participate in the service or play quietly in the Read More...
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Every year, on the last Sunday before things get very informal for the summer, we celebrate "Flower Communion". This is a day when children and adults are all in church together. Everyone is invited to bring some flowers from their garden, if Read More...
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Today we celebrated Children's Sunday, a chance to share with the whole congregation the story of our ministry with children, a ministry that mostly happens while adults are at worship in the sanctuary. We sang songs suitable for children; we heard Read More...
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We Unitarian Universalists are known for our willingness to offer memorial services for just about anyone. We believe there is goodness in everyone, goodness, even Godliness, that can be celebrated, if not during their lifetimes, then at the end. We see Read More...
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For Unitarian Universalists, Earth Day (April 22) has become a religious holiday. We celebrate it faithfully, reminding ourselves the we are of the Earth, that our earthly existence depends on the Earth being a certain way. In the 'Old Days' we Read More...
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Last week a woman called me to ask whether I would perform a wedding for her and her partner. We chatted a little, and then she sort of apologized, and said she hoped I wouldn’t be offended if she asked, but, would I mind performing a service that Read More...
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It's a tall story, the tale of the spiritual teacher who was arrested and put to death, whose body was put into a tomb and then disappeared. It's a tall tale, the story of the spiritual teacher who was seen again after his death, who inspired Read More...
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A group of people with a common concern had gathered, some who knew each other well, others who only knew one or two a little, and so of course there was an icebreaker. We were invited to put on an extra nametag with a slogan that spoke of our way of Read More...
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