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The Hidden Reason I Love The UCC — It’s Us
My friend Evelyn Eddy posted a reminder on Facebook the other day that about three tears to the day before I was born, something great happened. My denomination came into being and made the world a better and safer place. By my standards, we are the best denomination out there. The reasons are not immediately…
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A Bridge Over “Power”
Last night, I was reading The Nation (THE best magazine ever, in my opinion — I come back to it all the time) and I came across an article on online feminism and the fact that it has apparently gotten nasty between radical feminists online. A few weeks ago, a client and I got into…
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What If … Just Sayin’
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” — Leviticus 19:18 (Hebrew scripture) “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” — Jesus in Matthew 7:12 (Christian scripture) Apparently, some group…
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Jerry, I Hardly Met You
The adults in my house have come to the conclusion that 2013 has too many deaths in it already. Our housemate has done 6 funerals in the last month or so, my wife grieves and notices all the catastrophes of late and so far this year I have seen too much death too close to…
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The Last Bigotry?
In today’s Huffington Post, there’s an article about a speech by Bill Clinton with this quote: The country has made tremendous progress in shedding various forms of bigotry, Clinton said. “We have just one bigotry left. We don’t want to be around anyone who disagrees with us.” Seriously? Ok. I’ll admit that we have developed…
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Defiantly Hopeful
As a spiritual practice, I decided I would read the lectionary for something to meditate. (I have the lectionary app on my iPod already, so it was kind of a lazy choice/easy choice.) Boy am I glad I did. The texts this week spoke to my heart in a way I didn’t even see coming.…
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If You Cheat, No One Wins…
“Your Cheatin’ Heart Will Tell On You” — Hank Williams As the election draws to a close, the parties are already hedging their bets with claims of voter intimidation, voter fraud, reminders of Florida during the 2000 election, Black Panthers guarding polls (Hi, Murph!), voter suppression (Hi, liberals!) and so on and so on. Who…
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In Praise of the Local Church Pastor
About two weeks ago now, my friend Todd, a UCC pastor in Massachusetts posted something on his Facebook page about “having a conversation with the father of creation spirituality…” I was so struck by this, that I decided to write. What was astounding to me was 1) Todd knew how to find “the father of…
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Different Questions — Faith and Politics
Especially for Murph and Marilyn and Bob and Carrol… [This is a sermon I gave at Plantsville Congregational Church, UCC, Plantsville, CT July 27, 2012. I am particularly proud of it, because it solves some questions I wrestle with frequently her in blog-land.] First, let me start off this morning by saying “Thank you” to…
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