I won’t be preaching a Thanksgiving sermon this year. Our congregation celebrated UUSC Guest at Your Table last Sunday, the Sunday before Thanksgiving and we are having a Thanksgiving service tonight, Thanksgiving Eve, without a sermon. This is last year’s Thanksgiving Sunday sermon.
Lies My History Teacher Told Me
Last year about this time Jonathan D. Sarna, [...]
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A Thanksgiving Sermon – Lies My History Teacher Told Me
Posted in The Spiritual Life on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
THE SUPPRESSED SPEECH OF WAMSUTTA JAMES
Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tip of the hat to whoever posted this on the Net.
THE SUPPRESSED SPEECH OF
WAMSUTTA (FRANK B.) JAMES, WAMPANOAG
To have been delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1970
ABOUT THE DOCUMENT:
Three hundred fifty years after the Pilgrims began their invasion of the land of the Wampanoag, their “American” descendants planned an anniversary celebration. Still clinging to the white schoolbook [...]
Former UU President offers Human Rights Agenda to Obama
Posted in The Political Life, The Spiritual Life on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rev. William F. Schulz is in a position to do this because he is also a former Executive Director of Amensty International USA, the American wing of the Amensty International, the worldwide human rights organization. Schulz is currently senior fellow in human-rights policy at the Center for American Progress. These human rights priorities all come [...]
Apothegm of Narda
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apothegm of Narda: “Never utter these words: ‘I do not know this, therefore it is false.’ One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.”
“Senator, when did you stop beating your wife?”
John 7:53- 8:11:
2Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down [...]
Civics Test
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My latest favorite Internet quiz is one with some real substance. Our Fading Heritage is a program provided by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute American Civic Literacy Program. You may take their CIVICS QUIZ here.
The major finding from three years of doing this quiz, the survey and the study related to it:
* Americans Fail the [...]
Deer on Retreat
Posted in The Cultural Life, The Spiritual Life on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m preparing to attend a ministers’ study group in just over a week. We meet twice a year for three days in eastern Massachusetts. We gathered for our convocation last April at a retreat house on Cape Cod. The chapel there had a wall made entirely of glass. One morning there were deer on the [...]
What's your type?
Posted in The Cultural Life, The Spiritual Life on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hat tip or should I say type, to James Ford at Monkey Mind to pointing to Typealyzer.com, a web site that analyzes your blog for its Myers-Briggs personality indicator type. My blog has a personality? Who knew? For those wondering, The Sunflower Chalice is an ISTP: The Mechanic.
The independent and problem-solving type. They are especially [...]
Standing on the Side of Love – Video
Posted in Uncategorized on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It's almost Thanksgiving – where's the football?
Posted in The Cultural Life, The Personal Life on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
High School Football may be big in Texas, but it’s not as old or as time-honored a tradition as it is where I’m from. Although I’ll grant they may have taken it to another level.
Friday night lights is real phenomena here in the Lone Star state, but my Bay State commonwealth of origin is the [...]
Demanding an inclusive We the People
Posted in The Political Life, The Spiritual Life on November 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m a straight, white man and the struggle for GLBT rights and marriage equality has somehow become my struggle. I have prayed for the right of gay people to marry at my own wedding in 1992 and then worked hard, knocking on doors and making phone calls, and meeting with my legislator in Massachusetts to [...]
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