Aatir Zaiidi
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Aatir Zaiidi © 19 February 2017
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Sunday Talks / Random Musings
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot
Rev. Clay Nelson
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Rev. Clay Nelson © 12 February 2017
When I was thinking about Sunday service topics in February I thought we might need some time to reflect on this strange new world we find ourselves in since the US presidential inauguration on January 20 and how to respond to it as Unitarians. I looked. There is nothing in the history books that tells us quite what to do. No one alive today has ever seen anything quite like this before, leaving many of us scratching our heads and wondering in the language of the military’s phonetic alphabet: Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot?
But the best-laid plans for this Sunday were trumped Continue reading Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot
Water Communion
Queer divinity: how do queer people relate to the divine?
Only through love can hatred come to an end
Viv Allen
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Viv Allen © 22 January 2017
Only through love can hatred come to an end – Buddha
The reason I chose the topic of ‘conflict’ for my talk was because I read a story in the UU magazine that interested me. It was written by a gay woman Gail Geisenhainer about when she was a new member of a Unitarian congregation and long before being ordained as a Unitarian minister. She was apprehensive about whether the congregation would accept her. These are her words. Continue reading Only through love can hatred come to an end
Dances of Universal Peace
Roy Harvey & Sally Mabelle
Roy Harvey © 15 January 2017
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The Dances of Universal Peace are simple meditative community-building circle dances. They use sacred phrases, chants, movements and music from the world’s wisdom traditions. There are no performers, no audience members, and no experience necessary.
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The Eleventh Commandment
Sharon Robinson
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Sharon Robinson © 8 January 2017
I am going to start with a little background information about myself… “my journey” …and my motivation for choosing my topic today:
The 11th Commandment
My father, as my mother explained to me years later, “lost his faith” when I was 7. From then on I was raised in a household where the only thing worse than organised crime was organised religion. Continue reading The Eleventh Commandment
2016 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
Celebrating the summer solstice
How Unitarians Saved Christmas
Rev. Clay Nelson
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Rev. Clay Nelson © 11 December 2016
This week it was reported that one of Donald Trump’s surrogates, his first campaign manager, told Fox News that President-elect Trump had saved Christmas from Obama. Apparently he had won the war on Christmas, declaring it is now safe to say “Merry Christmas” again. In a world of fake news stories where pizza joints can be shot up because of outrageous lies generated by fake news sites, it isn’t surprising President Obama was plagued by such stories. One in particular was that being a “Muslim,” he never said, “Merry Christmas” or called a Christmas tree a “Christmas tree,” in spite of hours of videotape recording him doing just that. Continue reading How Unitarians Saved Christmas