I have mentioned before in this blog that I attend a Unitarian Universalist church. Since the reaction of people in person to such information is usually a puzzled look on their faces, I thought I’d post about this topic here.
Recently I came across the following video. I thought it was nicely done and pretty much [...]
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Our church does not hold regular services during the summer. It’s not that we completely shut down — there are still some informal services held in the air-conditioned common room, but the regular ones in the sanctuary stop for three months. Then we start up again, the Sunday after Labor Day weekend. And, weather permitting, [...]
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Saturday my son went to a classmate’s bat mitzvah. It was the first he’d ever been to, so I was curious about what his reaction would be. He said the service was nice and that his friend did a good job speaking. She didn’t look nervous at all, he reported. The party afterward was a [...]
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I’ve read two unrelated articles in the last day that have really made me stop and think. I’ve been in mega self-improvement mode for the last year, and two weeks from tomorrow my sabbatical ends and I go back to teaching full time, so I’m trying to tie up some loose ends.
Looking back [...]
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Please do not be offended. It’s not my fault that idolatry is tolerated in my home. I am certainly not guilty of it! My son isn’t doing it. My husband isn’t…well..isn’t doing it, per se, though he is the object of devotion, a household god of sorts.
Our dog, as I think [...]
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No doubt you’ve heard. Another shooting. This one strikes a little closer to home for me. It was a church in my denomination that was hit. What was not immediately in the news, though, is that this crime was apparently motivated by hatred. See this excerpt of a news article I [...]
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Sorry that I’ve been off-line for a while, folks. Odd that it’s been harder to get internet in Scandinavia than in Peru…. Anyway, here’s a recap on the last part of the Scandinavian portion of my trip. Tomorrow I’ll post on the UK part.
TRONDHEIM: Discovered a few key things of use there for my book.
(1) [...]
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You may recall that I am a mean ogre of a mom who is making her son write and practice spelling and punctuation this summer. Boo. Hiss.
Actually, it is going remarkably well, so I thought I’d share two more assignments we’ve done:
(1) Persuasive argument. Okay, so I figured that [...]
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“So Jesus was kinda like Al Gore,” my ten-year-old son explained as we were driving along this morning. HUH?
I can’t remember his original question this morning, but we soon found ourselves in a discussion about how some people read the Bible literally and others see it symbolically. This led to further discussion of creationism [...]
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Just got back yesterday afternoon from our annual all-church retreat to Ferry Beach, on the southern coast of Maine. About 250 people usually come from our Unitarian Universalist church to this yearly weekend away. It’s always held on Mother’s Day weekend, and pretty much every year my husband stays home and let’s us have [...]
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