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Ministrare · 1M ago

Church Skills: Decision-making

At my current congregation, we’ve done a lot of work to clarify who has the power to make decisions about particular things. For instance, under policy-style governance we use, the minister has the power to make decisions about almost everything that falls under “ministry.” Are we going to start a b
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Ministrare · 1M ago

Being a Person, by William Stafford

(thanks to Bill Neely, who posted this on Facebook.) Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke the owls. Invoke winter, then spring. Let any season that wants to come here make its own call. After that sound goes away, wait. A slow bubble rises through the earth and begins to include sky, stars,
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Ministrare · 1M ago

Words of Morning

This night is the most mysterious to me: Saturday, the night between. Yesterday, crufixion. Tomorrow, resurrection. but what of tonight? Some say that on this night the meek man who would not claim to be God, would not claim to be King, was busy breaking down the gates of Hell, almost by accident– s
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Ministrare · 1M ago

This time, a poem about love.

This one is mine. And it holds a secret. I wonder if anyone will find it? One Poem Love is too much for one poem, it bears repetition, needs it, to get to all its crazy complexities, the things that make you wonder if anyone believes or begins to fathom it at all. How could [...]
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Ministrare · 1M ago

Another great poem…

It is, after all, National Poetry Month. This one I love because it takes something I have a hard time thinking of as poetic (statistics) and weaves a lovely, meaningful poem from and with it. Also, this poem is written by a man I was privileged to study with at Iowa State University, Dr. Neal [...]
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Ministrare · 1M ago

And Now, I am in love with This Poem:

You Can’t Have It All by Barbara Ras But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old finger on your cheek, waking you at one a.m. to say the hamster is back. You can have the purr of [...]
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Ministrare · 2M ago

I am in love with this poem right now…

Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between [...
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Ministrare · 8M ago

Thoughts on Justice GA 2012 in Phoenix, AZ

It probably doesn’t go without saying that the following are my own thoughts and do not represent the UUA, the GA Planning Committee, the Arizona Immigration Ministry, The Accountability Group or anyone else. People are beginning to notice and respond to the Justice GA Schedule and grid (available h
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Ministrare · 9M ago

because @megariley asked, morning prayer

because @megariley asked, morning prayer: May we continue to grow deep, seeking the source of compassion, peace, love and laughter. #uu
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Ministrare · 1Y ago

Church Skills: (NOT!) How to Crush the Morale of Your Pastor

Please read this. The whole thing. The humor helps, it really does. I’m only weeping a little. Here’s an excerpt to get you to read the rest: In the past most congregations’ attempts to demoralize their ordained leadership have been haphazard and ad hoc, although still surprisingly effective. In the
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