Sunday June 30 - September 1, 201310:00 worship, 9:30 "nibbles"(childcare provided) During the summer months, we offer worship services in The Commons, a lovely air-conditioned room on the second floor, accessible by stairs or elevator. All are very welcome. We hope...
Easter Sundays in my childhood were a sweet mix of Spring celebration, family tradition, and very special church. The Spring celebration meant there was an Easter basket waiting for me when I got up. Through the cellophane wrapping I could see chocolate eggs of varying sizes with different fillings, jelly beans of many colors and a large hollow chocolate Easter bunny that would soon lose his ears! As much as I would have loved chocolate for breakfast, the basket was set aside and saved for the afternoon. (Is there a basket or a chocolate bunny waiting for you?)
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My first year in theological school I met a number of amazing women. One of them was D. She was a first year PhD student and we shared a passionate commitment to feminist theology, feminist theory and feminist critique. We fast became friends and spent countless hours in that rich and glorious pass time of graduate school students dialogue about things that could change the world.
Our friendship grew and when the chance to house sit for one of our favorite professors was offered to D, she asked me if I’d like to be her housemate.
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My Mom called Friday night. She and my Dad had been watching The Weather Channel. She sounded a little anxious. “Are you home yet?” In my head the answer was “Home yet? Of course I am. We spoke at 1:00 this afternoon and I told you I’d be home in 20 minutes.” That’s not what I said. “Yes, I’m home. I’ve been home for a long time.” Since she spoke to me last when I was on my way, as far as my Mom was concerned I was still on my way.
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This Great World House In the visitor's center at the King Center in Atlanta there is a statue of marchers on the highway from Selma to Montgomery. Visitors are invited to join the marchers on the road, to imagine what it was like, or remember. I...
We are looking for our true places. Driven toward wholeness , integrity, healing, we are looking. But why? What is it about us human beings that we are on such a journey? Is it by choice, life circumstance? Or are we somehow hardwired for this. . . . for worship . . . or spirituality or faith . . . . . . . . . . or something that those words point to?
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The Pursuit of Happiness ". . . They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from...
The Seventy Percent Rule ...
Under Our Charge The 1999 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, opened with a Ceremony of Native American Acknowledgement. Forrest Cuch, the Executive Director of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs and a member of...
Sermon - To Forgive, to Repair Rev. Tracey Robinson-Harris September 23, 2012 The Days Of Awe the High Holy Days of the Jewish tradition began at sunset last Sunday with Rosh Hashanah, the new year, a commemoration of Creation, and end when Yom Kippur, the Day of...