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We forget all the ways in which everyday living requires creativity. Mothering is one of those areas. From the imagination required to entertain young children, to the resourcefulness required to get everyone to art, soccer and band practices, to the ingenuity it can take to be helpfully present to children of any age, mothering requires … Continue reading The Creative Craft of Motherhood
When the culture around us doesn’t encourage us to our best selves, how do we model the kind of world we want to live in? Matt will reflect on the good and bad of middle school, the time he picked the very best costume for a high-stakes 5th grade costume party, & how we find … Continue reading Love the Hell out of this World
The Power of Language By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church May 1, 2018 First Reading http://archive.uuworld.org/1999/0599medit.html Second Reading If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen. Silence can exist without speech, but speech cannot live without silence. Listen to the speech of others. Listen even more to … Continue reading The Power of Language
Saved by Love By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church April 22, 2018 First Reading Our first reading is a set of quotes: The first is from a 2015 sermon by UU Minister Rev Catie Scudera. She writes: The World Wildlife Federation warns that we are in our fifth decade of annually exceeding the planet’s … Continue reading Saved by Love
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
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