Scott will be exploring curiosity, transformation and right relationship during an era of social and ecological challenge. Exploring stories from his Christian faith tradition and beyond, Scott will ask questions that encourage holy shifts. Scott is the Director of the Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina and Associate Minister of Green Chalice of the […]
Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman are some of the heroes in the Justice League of America. But we don’t need superpowers to act in love, justice, and peace. In fact, real-life heroes never start out with the goal of being heroic. We all can work for justice, equality, and compassion in human relations. Tights and […]
Jeff Hutchins talks about the ethics we impart to our children as they become independent of us. It’s based on the advice he gave his younger daughter on the day she graduated from high school. Jeff hopes his talk, with advice for grown-ups, too, will be humorous and inspiring, but what are the odds? Jeff […]
Marc Mullinax returns for a new angle on an old Christian theme. Using Wendell Berry’s phrasing (Practice Resurrection), we’ll discover/recover/uncover practices of hope in these apparently barren days, nearly halfway through President #45’s term. There are things that we can only see clearly when we are at the ends of our ropes. “Ya’ see,” Marc […]
What if our Seven Principles isn’t this sort of aspirational list of anti-Commandments like we tend to think they are? What if they’re something much more important than just that? Ed Proulx is a 2017 graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School, one of our Unitari-an Universalist seminaries. He is “in process” to maybe one day […]
In an increasingly polarized world, it has become difficult to share differences of opinion without alienating those who may disagree. It has also become harder and harder to hear differences of opinion without feeling anger or alienation. How can we choose to create harmony, allow space for conversation, and find common ground? Modern-folk duo Friction […]
Our country is struggling with the dangerous delusion of dualism. Eastern wisdom and Western wisdom each have an answer for moving us beyond dualism. The answers are found in the title of this sermon, which we will explore together. Rev. Earl Rabb is a retired United Methodist minister from Florida. He is the author of […]
It explains the concept of one human family using Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources. The point is that these traditions are so similar on certain matters that all of them can be part of such an explanation of a basic principle in our faith traditions. I believe that the three Abrahamic faiths – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam […]
In Australia, indigenous people believe that the gods walked over the land, creating songlines with their footsteps. Today, Australians use traditional music to mirror creation’s songlines. My ancestors came from Wales, where group singing builds community, as it does in Australia. Today, we’ll be recreating our faith community using hymnals that replaced Old Blue, in use until 1993. Let’s […]
About our annual July 4th celebration, The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman asked, “Is America today, in any meaningful sense, the same country that declared independence in 1776?” Are we “out of many, one” as our national motto states? As we reflect together on this upcoming Independence Day and the values of freedom and unity it celebrates, […]