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How shall we live in a time when we know that the future will be nothing like the past? Living between cultural paradigms invites us to learn how to learn together-one step at a time. Rev. Martha Niebanck is the Minister Emerita of the First Parish in Brookline. After a thirty year career of working … Continue reading On Emergence: The Way of Uncertainty
The Power of the Pause By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church April 10, 2018 First Reading I Remember Galileo by Gerald Stern – For online: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/gerald_stern/poems/18057 Second Reading I Go Among Trees by Wendell Berry – For online: http://www.stevenkharper.com/igoamongtrees.html Sermon: I feel for that little squirrel. Darting out from under the wheels of that … Continue reading On Emergence: The Power of the Pause
It is spring, and as life is beginning to explode in color and blossom all around us, we notice the power of the seed — the power of something that is very small to unfold into something very large or powerful or beautiful. Plants and animals emerge that way. So do ideas, and values. On … Continue reading On Emergence: Seeds of Everything
Reaching for Freedom By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church March 26, 2018 First Reading: By Rev. Kathleen McTigue Each of us knows a little about what it means to be lost in the wilderness. We know the awful disappointment, akin to despair, of being suddenly pathless and alone when we’d expected to stride confidently … Continue reading Reaching for Freedom
Tim DeChristopher disrupted an illegitimate Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction in December of 2008, by posing as Bidder 70 and outbidding oil companies for parcels around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah. For his act of civil disobedience, DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Held for a total of 21 months, his imprisonment earned … Continue reading Answering the Call
The Other Side – An All-Ages Service By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church March 11 2018 Story: The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson Part I: Where We Were There was a time, in this country, right up until the 1960’s, when segregation was a thing – Segregation, which meant, keeping kids separated from each … Continue reading The Other Side – An All Ages Service
An artistic, musical and meditative presentation of poetry with a social conscience and a prophetic edge. Spoken-word inspiration from historic and contemporary poets—both challenging and hopeful—interspersed with song and instrumental music on the violin, cello, piano, and Chinese stringed-instrument “erhu”. Cathy Clasper-Torch has been playing, teaching and performing music in RI and New England for more … Continue reading Prophetic Imagination and Social Justice: Reflections in Music and Poetry
Inspired, in part, by reading Michael Lewis’ The Undoing Project, I will look at some pretty basic topics: truth and the possibility of knowing, for starters. It’s important to remind ourselves that long before any nervous politician spouted the now well-worn phrase “Fake news!” the West has been asking itself questions about how we can … Continue reading “…and the truth shall make you free.”
Giving Up and Starting Over By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church February 11, 2018 First Reading by Wendell Berry There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more … Continue reading Giving Up and Starting Over
Perseverance is: persistence, sweat, effort, hard work. And it is also grit and grace. Perseverance is a word full of energy and longing, full of desire to create something great and important. What grit might you need, and what grace might you find, on your journey of perseverance? Let’s explore this question in this … Continue reading Perseverance: Walking the Road of Grit and Grace
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