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Woyaya: Working on the Vision
Every year for many years now, I try to read or listen to a recording of one of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches. This year, because we used an excerpt in our service at the Unitarian Universialist Congregation of … Continue reading
Woyaya: Remember Hope?
Poet, Mary Oliver, begins her poem “The Journey” with these words: You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations – – – though their melancholy was terrible. It was … Continue reading
Woyaya: Going Together, Or Not At All
Somewhere along the way in my theological education and work, I came across the saying: We either go to heaven together, or we don’t go at all. When I heard it, it jolted me, and almost instantly, I knew it … Continue reading
Winter Solstice – We Are: Light
Across the Roman Empire that once stretched from southern England to northern Africa, from Spain to Palestine, these days would be marked by a festival known as Saturnalia. The great sky god Saturn, the earth goddess, Ops (from which we … Continue reading
We Are: Our Prayers
Out of Celtic Irish tradition comes a way of praying called the Breastplate Prayer, or Lorica. The legends have it that these kinds of prayers, when offered by Druids, allowed them to pass by their enemies appearing only as a … Continue reading
We Are: Our Landscape
With so much of our time spent inside of climate and light controlled buildings, we lose our immediate contact with the Earth. In particular, we lose a sense of how the immediate landscape shapes who we are and how we … Continue reading
We Are: Our Stories
Recently, after our Winter Solstice ritual, several of us found ourselves in a warm and lively conversation about the power that stories have had on us. For most of us there, they were stories that came to us through reading, … Continue reading