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Belonging: Not by ideas alone
I really was only a participant in the conversation by accidental eavesdropping. I was passing by a group of people talking in a large institutional building. I happened to know some of them, so I nodded and made brief connections … Continue reading
Belonging: The Most Important Moment
I’m at my computer trying to finish up one of the many things that face teachers at the end of the school hear. The room is empty. I’ve given my exams for the day, and the students have gone home … Continue reading
Belonging: Caught By Surprise
Just the day before, running errands after work, I had seen him walking along the overgrown grassy side of a rush-hour four lane. He was a grown man but seemed to be wearing a football uniform that badly fit him. … Continue reading
Belonging: What’s Waiting on You?
I recently enjoyed Krista Tippet’s interview with poet, David Whyte. Among many gems, Whyte noted that one cannot argue with poetry, “because if you can argue with it, it’s not poetry. It’s prose.” I’ve considered for many years through my … Continue reading
Belonging: That Bumper Sticker
Some time ago, I was walking into the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett’s building from the parking lot, and my eye was drawn to a bumper sticker on our minister’s car. The most radical thing we can do is to … Continue reading
Belonging: What’s it worth?
Under the banner of “family values” pockets of angry people are decrying the recent directive of the Departments of Justice and Education ordering public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of the gender with which they identify. It’s … Continue reading
Belonging: The Test
How welcoming are we as a community? Any person can ask this question of any community that we belong to. Churches love to put that word on their signs: Welcome! They often promote themselves on signage and literature as being … Continue reading