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Three Superpowers
In a recent reflection, I named three human superpowers that I’d like to revisit. The first superpower is curiosity. Most of us began to develop this superpower when we were 4 or 5 years old with the incessant questions we … Continue reading
Empathy: Who Do We Include?
Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge . . . is empathy, for it requires us to spend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires … Continue reading
Living Love Through the Practice of Inclusion
This is my 20th year as a Unitarian Universalist. In my early years, it was not uncommon to hear someone say: “In Unitarian Universalism, you can just believe whatever you want to.” When that came from a fellow UU, I … Continue reading
The Layers of a Story
Good stories almost always have layers of meaning written into them, even the ones that happened before our very eyes before anyone ever retold much less wrote them down. My grandfather and a good friend of his were avid vegetable … Continue reading
Our Unfolding Stories
Suffering is part of the human experience. Every religious and spiritual tradition that I know of not only acknowledges that but in one way or another engages that reality. With some distance between us and that suffering, we almost always … Continue reading
To Tell A Story
Characters. Action. Movement. Trouble. Surprise. Change. I taught a “foreign language” for 32 years to teenagers. The language was the ancient “dead” language of Latin. For the latter half of my career, our Latin program became very popular and one … Continue reading