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Meditation for a Mindful Midweek 12/4/2014 – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. Meditation for a Mindful Midweek 12/4/2014. December 5, 2014. Sometimes my midweek may stretch into Friday, but this is too good not to publish this week, our congregation’s first December week of exploring what it means to be a people of wonder. Blessings, Bret. Wonder, by John O’Donohue. Unitarian Universalism in Africa. August 5, 2016. 8220;A love that casts out fear”. June 14, 2016. The year past, the year ahead.
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Showing up – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. December 12, 2014. Convergences don’t happen often. We’re in the middle of one, now. First, there is a national conversation happening about race and police brutality. According to Bureau of Justice statistics, as reported in the September 2014 Mother Jones,. Between 2003 and 2009 there were more than 2,900 arrest-related deaths involving law enforcement, and average of about 420 deaths a year. MJ. August 5, 2016. ItR...
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Meditation for a Mindful Midweek 11/26/14 – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. Meditation for a Mindful Midweek 11/26/14. November 26, 2014. Many peace vigils were held last night to continue the healing process so many months in the making. Questions remain about what next steps are necessary for justice to prevail. We grieve when we must, rest when we must, act when we must. We always stand on the side of love. Blessings, Bret. Reflection by Kathleen Rolenz. Thousands of words spilled to no end.
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Building relationship – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. August 7, 2015. A few weeks ago I received a funny chain mail message in my e-mail. It was titled, “The Perfect Rabbi.”. It was told to me in seminary that the first. It was also told to me in seminary that during one’s second. Can we listen to hurt or disappointment and respond with honesty and forgiveness? Can we not only tolerate one another’s idiosyncrasies but learn to laugh and play with them? We never talked in se...
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I long to be proven wrong – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. I long to be proven wrong. December 18, 2014. For the December newsletter article, please see my Dec. 12 entry. This is something I posted in a Facebook comment that captures my understanding of how church giving in the future will play out, and some of the consequences. I’ve said this many times, but perhaps never so concisely. Such as most other non-profit volunteer organizations devoted to change. August 5, 2016.
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Contact – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. Send me a copy. Senior Minister, Unitarian Church of Evanston. 1330 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201. Unitarian Universalism in Africa. August 5, 2016. 8220;A love that casts out fear”. June 14, 2016. The year past, the year ahead. May 11, 2016. The opportunity we’ve been waiting for! April 14, 2016. February 3, 2016. Spiritual but not religious? January 8, 2016. It’s getting cold out there. November 6, 2015. August 7, 2015.
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Boston & Cabaret Church – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. Boston & Cabaret Church. May 20, 2015. I will be away from Evanston the next two weekends. It always makes me sad when I’m not at church on Sunday but there is work out there in the world to be done, and I will return home soon. Says Cabaret Church creator Rev. Sean Parker Dennison:. There will be musicians, a circus tent, circus performers, maybe even a petting zoo. I still am not exactly sure what my role will be i...
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To be a people of integrity – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. To be a people of integrity. January 8, 2015. My father could abide almost any transgression except for a lie. Knowing this, I definitely minimized the trouble I got into as a child by not lying. It was less about integrity than intelligence. I knew that the quicker I could fess up to something I did wrong, the quicker I got out of trouble. What was integrity in those situations? A person of integrity. August 5, 2016.
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Will the senior minister get arrested? – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. Will the senior minister get arrested? May 7, 2015. I was going to write about Cabaret Church (below) for this newsletter column until Ryan Wallace from Community Renewal Society (CRS) called me this morning. Now I’m going to write about the possibility of getting arrested on Tuesday, and what you can do to help the effort, so to speak. See you on the bus Tuesday! It will be a celebration of religious and creative freedo...
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Vitality and growth – Rev. Bret Lortie's Blog
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Skip to Main Content. Directions from your current location. Rev Bret Lortie's Blog. February 6, 2015. I’m not only here to thaw but to attend two back-to-back conferences. Last weekend for the UU Military Chaplain Conference, I was with almost all of the 15 UUs serving in uniform. We talked about how to extend our UU prophetic witness within the context of our service and how best to support this vital young adult ministry. Worship and preaching needs be vital and vibrant. August 5, 2016. 8220;A love th...
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