(reflecting as usual on some of those who died in the previous twelve months, presented here in a longer version, much reduced in the giving; also included in the service were three hymns by Carl Seaburg, a dozen poems for children and others by Shel Silverstein, and a reflection by the student intern, Robin Zucker, [...]
“When everything else has gone from my brain,” writes Annie Dillard in the preface to her memoir, An American Childhood; “When everything else has gone from my brain,” what will be left, I believe is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way or that.” Dillard is talking about Pittsburgh, a [...]
I was in Canton, Mass., yesterday, for the installation ceremony for their minister, Diane Teichert. As a matter of fact, I gave the installation sermon, just as I am going to give the sermon next Sunday in Lexington for the ordination of Rebecca Cohen, while Kimi will give the charge to the minister and all [...]
Ours is a movement that has long been closely associated with a love
of nature, a respect for the planet’s rhythms and life forms, a reverence for
life (as Albert Schweitzer put it), and a sense of responsibility for the care of
our earthly home.
Newcomers who are just getting to know Unitarian Universalism may
not have guessed that from [...]