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Are you having a "Hopeover"?

Posted in The Political Life, tagged , , , , on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I am. I am having what Naomi Klein calls a Hopeover in her essay A Lexicon of Disappointment in the May 4 issue of The Nation.  I loved and was inspired by what some called President Obama’s “hope-based missional narrative” during his campaign.  I still think he was the best option available – who had [...]

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Install Minister

Posted in The Personal Life, The Spiritual Life, Uncategorized, tagged , on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I celebrated my installation as the second called, settled minister of Pathways Church yesterday.  One of the more memorable moments was this “Install Minister” program written by our office administrator.

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Yes, there IS bullying in Texas Schools

Posted in The Cultural Life, The Political Life, tagged , , , , , on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

No. According to both Texas’ schools and the Texas legislature bullying either doesn’t really happen that often or it only happens to gay kids or kids of color or poor kids or weak kids or non athletic kids, so in a sense it’s acceptable because it only happens to the unacceptables among school children. [...]

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Guerrilla Worship

Posted in The Spiritual Life, tagged , , , on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is a new take on the flash mob – flash mob as worship.  A group in Liverpool, England gathered in a mall and took off their shoes representing the fact that wherever they gathered is holy ground.

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Racism rears its head in Texas once again

Posted in The Political Life, tagged , , , , on April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last week a Texas State Representative named Betty Brown (R-Terrell) told a young, Asian-American lawyer from Austin named Ramey Ko during a hearing on a voter-ID bill that if Asian Americans have trouble getting accurate ID’s they should change their names to something “easier for Americans to deal with.” Telling other people to change [...]

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Calling the DRE

Posted in The Spiritual Life, tagged , , on April 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I have only heard of one congregation in the Unitarian Universalist Association that has a called Director of Religious Education. That congregation is Horizon UU Church in nearby (to me) Carrollton, TX.
This is an important as well as an intriguing step in the development of Lifespan Faith Development. A called DRE or DLFD [...]

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The Homeless Soccer World Cup

Posted in The Cultural Life, The Personal Life on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

<![CDATA[Having a broken foot, I've been reading a lot and watching a lot of video.  Homelessness is one issue that is a particular special interest of mine.  I recently discovered the 2007 documentary Kicking It by Susan Koch and Jeff Werner.  The film chronicles the Homeless World Cup, played in Cape Town, South Africa at [...]

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I'm Still Here

Posted in The Personal Life, tagged , , on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

YES, I’m still here. I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I last posted to the Sunflower Chalice.  Life just gets in the way sometimes.  I’ve been dealing with a broken foot since just after Christmas and the bone was not stitching itself back together, so I had to have surgery.  The foot [...]

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