September 2011
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Three Fridays (Sufi Wisdom Tale) →
Ah, the allure of the new as we surf for wisdom that affirms who we are now rather than challenge us to be better than is comfortable. Mullah Nasruddin meets the usual resistance - resistance I’ve met in myself many times. So even if you already know this tale, it might hold additional wisdom for you and your community…
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“How frail the human heart must be – a mirrored pool of thought”
– Sylvia Plath (Unitarian Universalist, poet, literary critic, novelist)
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“Our Unitarian Universalist “good news” affirms that God prefers the pluralism of...”
– Abhi Prakash Janamanchi (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word”
– E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
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“Want what you have; do what you can; be who you are”
– Forrest Church (Unitarian Universalist, minister, author)
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“[Discipleship]
It is about discovering a clear sense of self, a firm link to...”
– David Augsburger, Dissident Discipleship (2006) p. 7
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Immigration Matters: Farmworker Justice empowers... →
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“God of our mixed up, tragic, aspiring, doubting and insurgent lives, help us to...”
– Harry Meserve (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
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“The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an...”
– James Luther Adams (Unitarian Universalist, minister, ethicist, theologian) The Essential James Luther Adams (1998) p. 30 (via uuquotes)
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“An appropriate symbol for the process of celebrating life, enduring limits, and...”
– Sharon Welch, A Feminist Ethic of Risk (Unitarian Universalist, theologian, ethicist, educator)
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“Our Universalism is a heresy. We believe that if there is a loving God, this God...”
– John Nichols (Unitarian Universalist, theologian)
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“If we Unitarian Universalists have made any progress on issues of gender, sexual...”
– Laurel Hallman (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“What operates in human life with such character and power that it will transform...”
– Henry Nelson Wieman (Unitarian Universalist, theologian)
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“Be worthy of the aroma of bread and summer flowers,
For your mother’s...”
– Mahmoud Darwish, “Mural” Unfortunately, It Was Paradise p.129
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“We must get better at Universalist values of love and forgiveness, hope and...”
– Rosemary Bray McNatt (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from...”
– E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
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Teamwork & Tolerance Through Comics →
If you haven’t met Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa’s The 99 yet zip over to your public library or local comics seller and pick it up, or look through the old issues of the DC cross-over with The 99 and the Justice League of America (JLA).
The 99 young heroes from around the world do represent traditional Islamic values, and they’re values that tend to transcend cultures. Each of them is...
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“Character is the concentrated result of life, its organized deposit, its harvest...”
– William Channing Gannett, A Year of Miracle, p.106 (Unitarian, minister, author, reformer)
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“Unitarian Universalists have made a covenant to be held accountable. It is a...”
– Anita Farber-Robinson (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“When I look over my life, I find no disappointment and no sorrow I could afford...”
– Theodore Parker (Unitarian, Transendentalist, minister, reformer)
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“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly...”
– George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (Unitarian, novelist)
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“Surgeons can today transplant hearts, kidneys and other human organs, but no one...”
– Stephen Fritchman (Unitarian Universalist, minister, activist)
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“As we come to know more about a place, we begin to see that we live in a...”
– Carol Hepokoski, Along the Greener Path (Unitarian Universalist, minister, ecojustice advocate)
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“After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now
History has many cunning...”
– T. S. Eliot, Gerontion (Unitarian, Anglican, poet, playwright, critic)
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am”
– Sylvia Plath (Unitarian Universalist, poet, literary critic, novelist)
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“To forgive is to do two things at once: first, it is to name a suffered wrong as...”
– Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith (2011)
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Two Types of Forgiveness →
A podcast with Fetzer’s Love & Forgive Project and Dr. Everett Worthington, Professor of Pyschology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Worthington talks about the power of forgiveness in his own life. He names two types of forgiveness: decisional forgiveness - when we decide how we we will act toward another person in the future - and emotional forgiveness - replacing unforgiving...
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“To forgive is to share wisdom — perhaps it is even among the most...”
– Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith (2011)
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“Nature is nothing but little things. The mountain becomes motes of silex and...”
– William Channing Gannett, A Year of Miracle (1882) p.31-3 (Unitarian, minister, social reformer)
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“An important way to move toward mutual relation is through forgiveness. We ask...”
– Eleanor Haney (1989) The Great Commandment p.63
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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...”
– e.e. cummings (Unitarian Universalist, poet, painter)
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“Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then...”
– E. H. Chapin (Universalist, minister)
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“The process of releasing the heart/mind’s grasp on past pains and...”
– Noah Levine, The Heart of the Revolution (2011) p.68
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Forgiving for Good Relationships Today →
A podcast from Fetzer Institute’s Project Love & Forgive with Dr. Fred Luskin, Director of Stanford Forgiveness Project…
Forgiveness is about remembering differently, shifting out of victimhood. Luskin teaches a stress management approach to forgiveness, to reduce the negative reactions directed by our experiences of trauma. When we’ve suffered hurt in the past, Luskin says...
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“Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.”
– Carl Sandburg (Unitarian Universalist, poet)
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“When a just cause reaches its flood stage…whatever stands in its way must fall...”
– Carrie Chapman Catt (Unitarian, suffragist, founder of Women’s Peace Party, founder of League of Women Voters)
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“…forgiveness can’t be forced. By holding on to anger and resentment...”
– Noah Levine, The Heart of the Revolution (2011) p.64
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Teaching Forgiveness With Grades 2-3 →
Moral Tales is another Tapestry of Faith program, built around stories, developing character and ethics with the children in grades 2-3. This particular session also works now, in the month of Elul, and offers a wonderful wisdom tale that also can be adapted for worship. Inscribing the good we experience in stone and the bad we experience in sand moves us into a conversation on attitude and...
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“Religion and poetry do the same thing. They connect little things to big things”
– Lynn Adair Ungar (Unitarian Universalist, educator, poet, minister)
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“Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot...”
– Sharon Welch, A Feminist Ethic of Risk (Unitarian Universalist, ethicist)
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“Forgiveness itself is a gift. And just as a gift must be received in order to be...”
– Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith (2011)
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“Such is the real meaning of repentance: not trying to blame bad genes, bad...”
– Suzanne Meyer (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“God gives different gifts, different kinds of faith to different people....”
– Carl Scovel (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“The greatest pleasure I know is to do good action by stealth, and to have it...”
– Charles Lamb (Unitarian, author)
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“The little flower that opens in the meadows lives and dies in a season; but what...”
– Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (Unitarian, educator, author)
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“I think one of the powerful things about the notion of repentance is that it...”
– Serene Jones, in conversation with Hendrik Hertzberg, Pankaj Mishra, and Krista Tippett, On Being 9/8/11
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“The foundation of democracy is the realization that every human being is a child...”
– Olympia Brown, “The Opening Doors,” September 12, 1920 (Universalist, minister, suffragist, reformer)
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“This is the wonder of time; this is the marvel of space; out of the stars swung...”
– Robert T. Weston (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
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“These things happen…the soul’s bliss
and suffering are bound together
like the...”
– Jane Kenyon, from “Twilight: After Haying”
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