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RI Wildlife Rehabilitators
Led By Westminster’s Green Sanctuary Committee and RI Wildlife Rehabilitators. This service will be on saving orphaned and injured wildlife. Download QR
Gaining Freedom – A Sermon for Passover
Gaining Freedom – A Sermon for Passover By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church April 19, 2017 First Reading When the escape from Egypt was certain, when the last furious wave had closed over their enemies’ heads and the dangerous waters lay smooth again, when the Israelites could finally turn toward the future without fear … Continue reading Gaining Freedom – A Sermon for Passover
The Big Questions
On Curiosity: The Big Questions By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church March 26, 2017 —— First Reading By Bertrand Russell It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion. Nobody feels any passion about the multiplication tables or about the existence of Cape Horn, because these matters … Continue reading The Big Questions
Curiosity and the “Third Story”
Curiosity and the Third Story By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church March 12, 2017 First Reading By Rev. Christine Robinson “Our tolerance of diversity is not just the sort that “suffers fools gladly,” you see, it is the sort of tolerance which believes that truth emerges best when people share their different versions … Continue reading Curiosity and the “Third Story”
Being a Person of Curiosity
Being a Person of Curiosity By Rev. Ellen Quaadgras Westminster Unitarian Church March 5, 2017 ——— First Reading: It’s Not Easy Being a Unitarian Universalist ~ Charles Magistro I’m amused by the view that it’s easy to be a Unitarian Universalist. It’s as easy to be a Unitarian Universalist as it is to be persistent, … Continue reading Being a Person of Curiosity
Broken Fences
Broken Fences February 19, 2017 East Greenwich, RI The Rev. Andrea Greenwood Reading Mending Wall, by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: … Continue reading Broken Fences
Being/Becoming a Person of Passion
“The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep most of us end up hardly living out of it at all.” ~ Frederick Buechner. Enthusiasm, excitement, passion – while these can get obscured in the process of growing up, we never completely lose them. Somehow, somewhere, in some core part of ourselves, it’s still there. How … Continue reading Being/Becoming a Person of Passion
The Content of Our Character
Martin Luther King famously proclaimed, just over 50 years ago, that people should be judged by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin. Today, as we anticipate Martin Luther King Day on Monday, and the inauguration of this country’s 45th president next week, what might Dr. King have had to say about … Continue reading The Content of Our Character
Fire Communion
Join together for Westminster’s annual fire communion service. The fire communion separates the end of the calendar year from the beginning, helping us to put in perspective the joys and sorrows, the changes and transitions, the ups and downs of the year. This year, the myth of the Phoenix rising from the ashes will be our inspiration in leaving the old year behind and beginning the new.