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Tag Archives: Future
A Bigger Mission, a sermon for the installation of the Rev. Ron Phares at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Colorado Springs
It is my honor to be here with you on this great occasion, and for Rev. Sean Neil-Barron (who will offer the blessing) and I to bring you greetings from the northern end of the Front Range. Your new minister … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged All Souls, Ancestors, Colorado History, Faith, Feminism, Future, History, Iowa Sisterhood, Ministry, Mission, Partners, Partnership, Progressive Religion, Progressive Spirituality, Religion, Sermon, Sermons, Shared Ministry, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, Universalism, Universalist, Vision, Women, Women in Ministry, Worship
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The Hopefulness of History, written for the 125 year anniversary of the Foothills Unitarian Church
Like a lot of people in the last few days, I watched the drama play out in the US House with both a little shock and not a little schadenfreude. When they hit the 11th vote, I called my mom … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Activism, Ancestors, Covenant, Future, History, Hope, Hopefulness, Justice, Living Tradition, Parker Palmer, Past, Rebecca Parker, Rebecca Solnit, Sermon, Sermons, Time, Unitarian History, Unitarian Universalist History, Unitarianism, Universalism, Universalist History
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The Future Now
Reading: There is No Going Back by Wendell Berry No, no, there is no going back. Less and less you are that possibility you were. More and more you have become those lives and deaths that have belonged to … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Anxiety, Beauty, Diana Butler Bass, Eschatology, Future, Hope, Liminality, pandemic, Post-pandemic, Presence, Present, Realized Eschatology, Richard Rohr, Sermon, Sermons, Susan Beaumont, Vision, Visioning
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Inefficiently Yours
Reading: Wendell Berry’s Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front Sermon: Inefficiently Yours Every day this week, I had at least one package on my front porch when I got home. Every day. At least one. Not all of them were from … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Sermons
Tagged agency, Capitalism, Economy, Efficiency, Future, Humanism, Humanity, Power, Theological Anthropology
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Tomorrow Land
Reading: The House Called Tomorrow by Alberto Rios Just over three years ago, we convened an impromptu evening service – the night after the national election. People poured in to social hall for the potluck meal we invited before the … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Church, Sermons
Tagged Apocalypse, Courage, Future, Hope, Hopelessness, Immigration, Immigration Justice, Justice, Political Process, Politics, Progress, Sanctuary, Sermon, Sermons, Theodore Parker, Vaclav Havel, Vision
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Another Possibility 