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July 31–All Is Welcome Here: Still Work To Do
The message of this song has come home to me in so many ways just in the last 24 hours. Yesterday at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett–so many new faces and first time visitors. All is welcome here. And … Continue reading
July 28 – All is Welcome Here: the Gateless Gate
Gates are potential openings in walls and fences, but until they are open they are barriers themselves. Frequently they are locked and to enter we must have the combination or key. We all have our walls and fences that surround … Continue reading
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July 27–All Is Welcome Here: We’re Okay
I have had the occasion this past year to be in conversation with some younger (than I) adults, and it’s only dawning on me now that there is a pattern in those conversations. Sometimes, they are about teaching and working … Continue reading
July 24–All Is Welcome Here: Even the Troubles
I’ve spent a long time now observing what happens to many of us when a life event takes us to some edge of human experience that is too troubling to allow into our lives. When I was a very young … Continue reading
July 13–All Is Welcome Here: The Real You
His name was Clyde. He stood a good head and a half taller than me, an African American man probably about the same age as me. We had agreed to be conversation partners at a meeting held by the ACLU … Continue reading
July 12–All Is Welcome Here: Doing Our Work
Jennifer Garrison, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett, and I had a conversation after the service this past Sunday, and then she followed up sharing her reflections. These are the kinds of interior journeys that become our … Continue reading
July 11–All Is Welcome Here: Changing our Stories
When Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, says that changing the narratives that support inequity and racial injustice is one of the major requirements for changing the world we live in, he is tapping into something very … Continue reading
July 10–All Is Welcome Here: Doing the Work
I had the privilege of listening to the Ware Lecture from General Assembly this year just a couple of weeks ago, live streamed from New Orleans. Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, AL, offers … Continue reading
July 7–All Is Welcome Here: Yearning to Belong
In psychological terms, thanks to Carl Jung and others, we sometimes speak of introverts and extroverts. I understand extroverts to be those who are energized by being around large groups of people and introverts those who are energized by being … Continue reading
July 6–All Is Welcome Here: One Race?
My first teaching post at a Catholic high school in Alabama was in the theology department. Among other things, I taught a course in social justice. I owe a debt of gratitude for my colleagues at the time who helped … Continue reading