Blessed by the kindness of my fellow travelers. Of all of the parenting decisions my mother made when I was in middle school, perhaps the one I am most grateful for is how she chose to write about me. That we have children who are perfectly capable of listening in on the conversation.

Spirit and Body, Intellect and Earth. Asymp; Leave a comment. In the beginning, our ancestral stories tell us, humans lived in peace with all the animals, taking joy in them and naming them. There was intimacy in Eden, where humans were created to guard and serve the earth. Christmas is the beginning of that healing. Who is more outside power than the animals? The Christ Child is.

Thursday, August 13, 2015. Grace Potter - I Shall Be Released. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Was there anyone quite like Nina Simone? Was there another artist whose voice, whose eyes projected the pain and possibility of a generation? She was uncompromising as a musician and it seems she paid a huge price for this. To call us back, to move us forward.

Eloquia oris mei et meditatio cordis mei.

Musings on faith, creativity, and life. Another book by Yoder,. Faith in the Face of Empire. Given all of this, I argue that a nonviolence .

Monday, July 27, 2015. Congregational Church of Amherst, UCC. Many of us struggle with stories about miracles.

The Unitarian Universalist Ministry of Karen G. Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence. The Mary Oliver poem referenced in this sermon can be found here. Consequently, and not surprisingly, I am surrounded by requests for prayer. Keep me in your prayers. Can you say a prayer for fill-in-the-blank. Even in the wide world, with its growing number of spiritual nones N-O-N-E-S, those who do not identify with a.