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Love Makes a Bridge: Into Our Shadowy Places

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Bob Patrick

Yesterday’s post of reasons why Black Lives Matter received very high readership among those who read this blog.  I want to continue for the next few days reflecting on some of those points and how love can make bridges for … Continue reading →

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Love Makes a Bridge: Why Black Lives Matter (And not “All Lives Matter”)

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Bob Patrick

Thanks to Steve Babb for sending in this collection of considerations.  As I reflect on them, I consider them as a way of building bridges–into my own consciousness and conscience and into the reality of fellow Americans about whom I … Continue reading →

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Love Makes a Bridge: Not Walls

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Bob Patrick

Love makes a bridge from heart to heart, and hand to hand Love finds a way when laws are blind, and freedom banned. Love breaks the walls of language, gender, class, and age. Love gives us wings to slip the … Continue reading →

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Return Again: Our Principles–2

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Bob Patrick

In Unitarian-Universalism, we gather ourselves and our faith around seven Principles. Our Principles are not religious dogma in content.  They are ethical principles in that they embody rather explicitly the things we value.  They allow us to bring stories and … Continue reading →

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Listening Freshly

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Christiana McQuain

“We are all on the edge of having to listen freshly all the time.”  – Ram Dass When my first son was born and I embarked on the adventure of motherhood, suddenly cries took on a significance and meaning that … Continue reading →

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Listening: Howling at the Moon

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Christiana McQuain

Sometimes my dog jumps up from where he is sitting in the house and begins barking frantically.  My initial inclination, still, is to shush him and admonish him for “barking at nothing”.  But I always stop myself.  I am aware … Continue reading →

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June 27 – Listening: Do You Hear What I Hear?

Posted on June 27, 2016 by admin

Anyone here who has had a conversation with me over the last year or so  knows that I have been grieving and processing the death of my mother in November of 2104.  As the executrix of the estate my parents … Continue reading →

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