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Across the Threshold: September 2009
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Saturday, September 26, 2009. USSB Clean/Green Initiative on FOX News. I have to say that never in a thousand years did I expect to contribute camera work to the evening news! Anyway, see below for the finished product. To the right of the text is a link to the video newscast:. Http:/ www.myfox11.com/global/story.asp? Wednesday, September 23, 2009. Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara Goes Solar! Soooo nice to finally be done with this phase of the project! But one step, and one capital campaign at a time.
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Across the Threshold: In Praise of Jell-O-Salad
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Saturday, April 24, 2010. In Praise of Jell-O-Salad. I’ve been researching Jell-O-salads for the past few days in preparation for a church auction event Eliza and I are helping to organize. The theme is “Wisconsin Winterfest.”. Other friends, less well disposed toward salads-salads, wrote back with witty comments like, “Do you mean Lutheran Church-Basement Salad? To which my answer was simple – “YES! 1 small can crushed pineapple. 1 c carrots, grated. 1/4 tsp. salt. 1 small package lemon Jell-O. Boiling&...
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Across the Threshold: July 2009
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Friday, July 31, 2009. New Worker Rights Blog. 8220;Working In These Times“ is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and the struggles of workers to obtain safe, healthy and just workplaces. Check it out here:. Http:/ www.inthesetimes.com/working/. Or by clicking the link on the right side of this page. Thursday, July 2, 2009. Is Your Kid Addicted to Online Gaming? Http:/ www.cmch.tv/mentors parents/messaging.asp. Another excellent resource is a new electronic boo...
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Across the Threshold: Freedom Prayer
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Saturday, April 24, 2010. The following is a prayer/meditation I offered last night during the Opening Worship service of our Pacific Southwest District Assembly of Unitarian Universalist congregations following a wonderful keynote by the Rev. Dr. Mark Morrison-Reed. Great Spirit, Source of all Life,. We get lost sometimes, in the space between freedom from. Because we are all in bondage of one sort or another we often focus one the first step of freedom – freedom from. Freedom is not like opening a door.
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Across the Threshold: November 2008
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Friday, November 14, 2008. Late yesterday afternoon a wildfire went from birth to fast-moving inferno in just a few hours. I had never seen a wildfire so close up before - and seeing it roaring down the hills - seemingly right on top of us in downtown Santa Barbara was just plain surreal. The power went out just then, and we stood in the dark. After a while I noticed that the choir, which was there rehearsing, had not come out when we lost power, so I went in to check on them. This has been a day of ring...
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Across the Threshold: Great Spirit?
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Saturday, April 24, 2010. Last week one of you asked a very interesting question that no one had ever asked me before:. 8220;Every week when we enter meditation you always begin by saying, “Great Spirit.” Who or what is this Great Spirit? Whom are we talking to? A very good question! But in that moment all I could think of to say is, “Well, I’m not entirely sure – but I’m pretty sure it isn’t me.”. Even that isn’t quite right. Sigh. Words are so inadequate sometimes. Maybe I don’t need to know, def...
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Across the Threshold: September 2008
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008. Interfaith Campaign to Support Sanitation Workers! Hello, all,. Dear Brothers and Sisters of Our Faith Communities:. I am writing to you in hopes that you will spend just a few minutes of your time to help workers at Waste Management Inc. (WMI), the nation's largest waste company, who are involved in a struggle for dignity. WMI's intimidation must stop, and your help will go a long way in that fight. Please sign the petition:. What a ridiculously long time between posts! There...
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Across the Threshold: June 2008
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008. White Working Class Voters". That's the number of search results I got a few minutes ago when I googled "white working class voters." 1,940,000. This is a phrase that has been bugging me more and more over the last few months, as I have heard and read it at least three or four times a day as what Jon Stewart refers to as the "Long, slow, seemingly endless Bataan death march to the White House" grinds on and on. Early in the Democratic primary, when Obama was racking up victories...
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Across the Threshold: Washing Feet
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Saturday, April 24, 2010. The following is a blessing I wrote for the WillBridge Interfaith Footwashing for the Homeless on April 1, Maundy Thursday, just a few days before Easter. It was a great experience, one of the holiest parts of Holy Week. We touch the world primarily through our feet. It is on these delicate, unassuming, and yet deceptively resilient pins of skin and cartilage and bone that we propel ourselves through life – one step at a time. This is why we are here today; this is why we wash t...
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Across the Threshold: The Sermon of Nasruddin
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Saturday, April 24, 2010. The Sermon of Nasruddin. This story was collected and translated by Idries Shah, who helped introduce Sufism to the Westerm world in the 1960s. They are part of a vast collection of teaching stories about the Wise Fool, the Mulla Nasrudin, dating back at least five hundred years. One day the villagers thought they would play a joke on Nasrudin. As he was supposed to be a holy man of some indefinable sort, they went to him and asked him to preach a sermon in their mosque. Nasrudi...