There are ideas that will suffocate our humanity as surely as a raised voice or a fist. How can we create a safe place – physically, educationally, socially, culturally, spiritually – to exceed the boundaries of our fears. Bio: Rev. Sarah Person is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister from Middleborough, MA, and a married mother of two. She serves as a member of the Ballou Channing Chapter Leadership Council of the UUMA, a Good Officer, … Continue reading It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
If you ask a Unitarian Universalist if they believe in God, many will answer, “Well, it depends upon what you mean by God.” According to Universalist Minister, Clinton Lee Scott, “Words are the commerce of the civilized world, the coin of exchange, and the vehicle of thought.” But how do we communicate effectively when we assign our own private meanings to important and common concepts? Come Sunday as we explore this question.
Easter is a Christian holiday, but it also has profound meaning and deep roots that extend well beyond the Christian story. Ancient mythologies are abundant with the universal theme of life, death, and resurrection. Come this Sunday as we hear the stories and myth, Christian, Greek, and Hindu, and reflect on the spiritual meaning of suffering and loss, hope and lamentation, and resurrection and rebirth.
