Category Archives: Ministers’ blogs
Safe
The YIN Commendments for Ending Global Terrorism and building a safe community from Dr. Rev. Linnea Pearson, Ph.D. 1. Lighten up. 2. Remember, human life is short and meant to be enjoyed. 3. Look about you and exclaim daily … Continue reading
Rev. Kevin Annett fights against crimes against humanity
On Saturday, June 8th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., Rev. Kevin Annett will be speaking at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brevard. Kevin is co-founder of the International Tribunal into the Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), which initially focused … Continue reading
Theological Differences
Once you have a god that does not change the game is over, because we humans are always in the process of change. Therefore we can never totally identify with the unchanging divine. This is where Unitarian Universalist theology differs … Continue reading
“…when women speak truly they speak subversively–they can’t help it: if you’re underneath, if you’re kept down, you break out, you subvert. We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps … Continue reading
Rights or simply Being
From where do we derive our rights as people? Is it from the government, the constitution, or the bill of rights? If it is from any of these they can be taken away, modified, the meaning changed, or enforced only … Continue reading
Healing Our World and Ourselves a Unitarian Universalist calling
Healing Our World and Ourselves a Unitarian Universalist calling Every component of the Earth community has three rights: the right to be, the right to habitat, and the right to fulfill its role in the ever-renewing processes of the Earth … Continue reading
Introduction to the sermon for Sunday
Full Moon Speaks: The Promise of Things Not Yet Born In a slow, steady rocking chair a mother nurses her child. I bathe her in my light. I touch gently also the cheek of the soldier who will never be … Continue reading
From Unitarian Universalist Theologian Henry Nelson Wieman
The Unitarian Universalist principles are based on the foundation of freedom. However freedom has come to mean something the promotes individual interest rather than community values. Freedom that does not acknowledge and honor the unifying aspects of community will not … Continue reading
Giordano Bruno
This quote is similar to some of the ideas in the sermon To advance, you must regularly progress through four cognitive faculties: first, by perceiving what physically surrounds you; second, by mental visualization in which images are whirled around you; … Continue reading
Winter Solstice
Is the celebration of light: The coming of a purity in our lives making all things new. A power and hope that can heal and lead us to dance free of all burdens. A moment in time when we let … Continue reading