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Tag Archives: Racism
All Bodies are Sacred (Hallelujah!)
Hallelujah to the grace And the body and every cell of us all The Hallelujah of the body begins at birth. I have been present at two births in my life, (other than my own) neither of them my children’s. … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Ageism, agency, Andrea Gibson, Autonomy, Beloved Community, Birth, Bodies, Bodily Autonomy, Body, body-image, body-shaming, Death, Disability, Disabled Justice, Embodied, Embodiment, Fat, Fatphobia, Holiness, Holy, Interdependence, Justice, Liberation, Life, obesity, Pluralism, Race, Racism, Reverence, Sacred, Sacredness, self-love, Sermon, Sermons, Somatic, Sonya Renee Taylor, Theological Anthropology, trans, Transphobia, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Universalism
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Recognition / Seen – Easter 2023
Reading: Luke 24:12-32 Sermon My best friend from high school reached out to me last week. We’ve stayed in touch loosely over the years over Facebook, but not in any consistent way. She was in our home town for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Anagnorisis, Belonging, Black, Christianity, Closet, Compassion, Democracy, Diversity, Easter, Friends, Grief, Growing, Growth, Gun Violence, identity, Inclusion, Inclusivity, Jesus, Life, Love, Neighbors, Perepetia, Race, Racism, Recognition, Resurrection, Revolutionary Love, Sermon, Sermons, Sikh, TDOV, trans, Trans Joy, Transformation, transgender, Unitarian, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, Universalism, Universalist, Valerie Kaur, Visibility, Visible, Whiteness
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Tree / Truth – a sermon for Earth Day 2021
Reading: “Maple Nation” by Robin Wall Kimmerer Part 1: Tree / Truth Transcript Like any experience of the holy, my first memories of trees come wrapped in fear, and trembling. My uncles, covered in pitch and mud, half-deaf from … Continue reading
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Tagged Braiding Sweetgrass, Climate Justice, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Based, Environmental Justice, Forest, Generations, Humility, Intergenerational, Overstory, Race, Racism, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sermon, Sermons, Spiritual, Spirituality, Story, Trees, White Supremacy
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Endgame – Homily after the 2020 election
It’s about five episodes into the new Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit when one of the characters, Harry, presses the main character, Beth: What’s your endgame? She looks at him blankly, a little irritated, and says – to win. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Courageous Love, Democracy, Election, Eschatology, Hope, Imagination, meaning, Political Process, Politics, Purpose, Race, Racism, Theological Anthropology, Theology, Trump, White Supremacy
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How We Eat the Stars 10.25.2020
Reading: Rebecca Elson’s Antidotes to Fear of Death There’s a lot about the Bible that perplexes me. But maybe the most perplexing story in the bible is the story of Moses. I don’t mean the stories he’s most known for – … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Change, Cosmology, Creation, Eschatology, evolution, Freewill, Help, Helplessness, Hope, Hopelessness, Human Agency, Justice, Mortality, Moses, Race, Racism, Salvation, Stars, Theology, Thomas Merton, Universe, White Privilege
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The Limits of Diversity: A conversation with Activist Florence Field
In the spring of 2020, as I was wrapping up a conversation with Foothills member Lynn Young about growing up during world war 2, when she told me that I should see if I could talk with one of her friends, … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Anxiety, Beloved Community, Calm, Community, Complexity, Differentiation, Discernment, Diverse, Diversity, Fort Collins, Heal, Healing, Japanese, Japanese American, Japanese Internment, Justice, Limits, Race, Racism, Regulation, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, Truth, White, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Whiteness, World War 2
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All or Nothing
It was 1866, and the work for women’s suffrage was at a crossroads. The civil war had ended the year before. Loss and grief were everywhere. Over 10,000 battles had been fought, over 600,000 died. What it means for two sides … Continue reading
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Tagged compromise, ethical, ethics, Feminism, gender, harm reduction, Race, Racism, rules, Sexuality, voting, Women, women's rights, women's suffrage
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Heart Broken Open – Martin Luther King Jr Sunday 2021
Part 1: Let Your Heart Break When my son was really little, one of his most pressing questions was how we know who is a bad guy, and who is a good guy? In theory, although it isn’t all that … Continue reading
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Tagged Beloved Community, Feelings, Grief, Heart, Heartbreak, Justice, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, Race, Racism, Sermon, Sermons, Theology, White Supremacy
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Factions We Love
Reading: from Resistance by Barry Lopez [Sometimes I dimly recall the days] when I felt, like many others, that my life served no purpose. Do you remember any such days? It was as though we all lived in tunnels then, … Continue reading
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Tagged Diversity, Division, Faith, Grace, Polarization, Politics, Race, Racism, Sanctuary, Sermon, Sermons, Trump, Universalism, White Nationalism, White Supremacy
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Black Lives Matter
Listen to this sermon on audio here. First Reading: Say it With Your Whole Black Mouth by Danez Smith Second Reading: From Kenny Wiley’s A Unitarian Universalist Black Lives Matter Theology Sermon: Black Lives Matter Was this a long time … Continue reading
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Tagged BlackLivesMatter, Race, Racial Justice, Racism, Sermon, Sermons, White Supremacy
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