On this Palm Sunday, we celebrate that Triumphal entries are part of life. Every baby born excites us with a rebirth of exuberance! We will be gathering online on Sunday at 11am. See here for details of how to join us! And here’s the video of our April 5 online service.
There is much to be anxious about, many clouds in our world. Let us learn to make the best of it by finding the silver linings in those clouds, working to heal ourselves and our world by our own efforts. We will be gathering online on Sunday at 11am. See here for details of how … Continue reading Silver Linings
“Do you know what Wisdom is?” asked the elder.“No,” said the child.“Ah,” said the elder. “Wise answer.” We are learning and experimenting daily with new ways of creating community in the midst of this pandemic. How do we act in wisdom when the information we get every day changes so dramatically? When there is so … Continue reading Getting Wise
I was seven years old when I had my first encounter with theology. My mother made a batch of fudge, placed it in the refrigerator and decreed, “Don’t touch until after supper. And just because I’m not here,” she said, “don’t think you are alone with the fudge. God is watching you.” The word “theology” … Continue reading As If God Were There
Do you remember RuPaul’s hit Supermodel? RuPaul is the fantastic drag star who famously promotes self-love and igniting your spark within. He knows doing it is tough but possible. He puts it this way, “Look at me–a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can be beautiful, so can you.” … Continue reading Wisdom to Love Yourself
In the midst of this presidential season we are stunned by impeachment and primaries. I recall a simpler time when a general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, defeated a Unitarian Universalist, Adlai Stevenson. Then as now folks asked, “What will happen next?” Here is the video of the reflection and sermon “I Like Ike“
Our children teach us about creativity is that life’s waiting room is really a playground if we persist in having a perspective of playfulness. Practical Creativity is playful persistence. Practical creativity has its being and its power in the way we move among the everyday events of our living, the way we move from obstacles … Continue reading Practical Creativity
What our children teach us about creativity is that life’s waiting room is really a playground if we persist in having a perspective of playfulness. Spiritual Creativity is about being like children with their toys. We must be willing to turn our pain and problems upside down and look at them anew; we must be … Continue reading Spiritual Creativity
Use it up; wear it out, make do; do without. That’s the mantra of my New England upbringing. I am a native of New Hampshire which prides itself as being the most frugal place in the country. The motto on New Hampshire’s license plates is often mistaken as a patriotic slogan, when, in fact, the … Continue reading Use It Up
Born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1946, guest preacher Rev. Doug Wilson moved to Santa Barbara when he was five. After graduating from UCSB in religion and philosophy at age 20, he went to Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley and in 1971 he was ordained in the First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn. That summer he was … Continue reading Love Lives at the Heart of the Universe
