Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Life, Politics, God, Food, Faith and Science, the Gaia Hypothesis and Attaining Personal Mastery in One Easy Lesson You're probably familiar with religious light bulb jokes. Like, how many Episcoplians does it take to change...
When Julia Ward Howe penned her Mother’s Day proclamation for peace in 1870, the Franco-Prussian war had just ended. Rapid fire machine guns had turned battlefields into mechanized slaughterhouses. She described in her Reminiscences how the question came into her mind: “Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to present the waste of human life of which they alone know and bear the cost?” In her proclamation, she called for an international congress of women to be convened, in her words “to promote the alliance of different nationalities” and the amicable settlement of differences. The Mother’s Day Peace Festival she proposed became the forerunner of the holiday we celebrate today.
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THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SPIRITUAL PEOPLE Squint. Don't put your horizon in the middle of the composition. Let your brush strokes come from a movement of your whole torso, not just from the fingertips. And remember to step back from your work every...
The First Parish of Sudbury is a congregation that is totally unique — just like all the others. Naturally, no two churches are ever quite the same, any more than two snowflakes can be one hundred percent identical. But when it comes to frostiness, whiteness, and star-shaped symmetry, there are some strong resemblances that exist among snowflakes. And indeed, there are also recurring patterns that churches exhibit, regardless of their differing histories, locations or denominational affiliation.
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Some people have the power to change things … to make others pay attention, to challenge the status quo, to ask the hard questions, to inspire action by example, maybe even to leverage the course of events. When I heard Tim DeChristopher speak last summer, I sensed he was that kind of person.
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Singers of Life This Easter Sunday is a memorable for many reasons. It was on this day, the 8th of April, nineteen years ago, that a great American passed out of life and into history. Marian Anderson was arguably the greatest contralto of the last century, but...
Einstein's God Albert Einstein's name has become synonymous with braininess. With his swarm of frizzy, uncombed hair and puppy-dog, twinkling eyes, his face is instantly recognizable, even by the ninety-nine percent of the planet who have no clue about what his...
A Faith That Chooses Us by Rev. Gary Kowalski Delivered March 4, 2012 at First Parish of Sudbury. Choice is an important value for Unitarian Universalists. One might say it's a sacred precept. Faith for us is not so much an heirloom handed down as a matter of living...
Religion in a Spiritual Age READING Our reading this morning is an excerpt from a reflection by The Rev. Lillian Daniel, senior minister of the First Congregational Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. On airplanes I dread the conversation with the person who finds out I...
Let's Talk Everyone has a job to do. Recently, Susan Stamberg of National Public Radio reported on a character named Miss Lilly, an eighty-one year old woman she encountered in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris whose specialty is to "parlez vous."...