Archive for October, 2008

Cultivating Uncertainty, and Surviving It

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

It is hard to distill a religion of any complexity whatsoever into a bumper sticker. It is hard enough to say what a religion is about in what is called an “elevator speech,” what you could tell someone in the thirty-five seconds between the first floor and the fourteenth. The president of the Unitarian Universalist [...]

The Sensational, Sensual Church

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

I don’t know if you have noticed, but for over a year the Newcomers Committee has arranged to have a really nice column in the Wayland paper every week about the upcoming Sunday’s service and other church activities. I am grateful, and I know many of you are as well.But it does mean that I [...]

The Power of Forgiveness

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

If you are new to this area, you may have been surprised that in the spring, there is some flooding. River Road is impassible for a time most years. You may not yet know that some years, the waters can even overflow Route 20. During one such flood of Wayland Center, I went up into [...]