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My favorite public radio program/podcast about religion, Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is currently running an amazing series on Ramadan titled “Revealing Ramadan.” Throughout the Muslim holy month the series is  featuring Muslims from around the world giving brief (five-minute) accounts of their experience of Ramadan.
Revealing Ramadan is a daily, limited-run audio series featuring [...]

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OK, I think I’m back. I’ve deleted all suspect code from my posts and comments, thus I believe I’ve purged the hack attack. I exported, imported and in a sense restarted the blog from scratch.  I’ve also moved it. I’m thinking your bookmarks should still work, but I don’t know. I hope you are still [...]

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After creating a Wordle for our church DNA I decided to put the UU Princples and Purposes into the generator.  Here’s the result:

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I put our Pathways Church DNA or covenant through the Wordle word cloud generator and this was the result.  I’m happy we seem to be a spiritual people.

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Hacked!

Yes, my WordPress blog, Sunflower Chalice has been hacked.  It was a silent hack, probably achieved through my rather open comment policy, which I now, unfortunately, have to alter.  I noticed the hack when I recently had once of my posts import to facebook and instead of the post text, I had a link and [...]

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My son will be a seventh grader this year. Next week he starts school.  two weeks ago there was a Transition Seminar for parents and students.  The Seminar would be for parents and students from four local ISD’s or Independent School Districts.  Great Idea.  The move from grade school to junior high can be rough [...]

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I firmly believe that the only real health care reform worth our time, money, and investment is a national, single payer system – medicare for everyone.  No more private insurance companies. Doctors making decisions with you about your health on the basis of your health needs, not on the basis of what your for-profit health [...]

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I’ve added a new page to this website.  I’m in the process of updating my professional website, revtonylorenzen.com, where I haven’t added sermons to the sermon page in over a year, so in the meantime and as an ongoing feature, I am adding a sermons page to Sunflower Chalice. I will post sermons here in [...]

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Here I am at the Southwest Unitarian Univervsalist Summer Institute.  I’m spending mornings with Rev. Ron Robinson of The Living Room Church in Turley, OK in his workshop on Organic Church and the New Monasticism.  Right up my alley – Emergent Church communities with a liberal, even Unitarian/Universalist theology, mission focussed, walking the talk. Let’s [...]

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