Showing Up with Rev. Dawn Volpe

As someone who’s spent the last 38 years imploring, cajoling and badgering the flock to ‘COME JOIN US IN CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY!’, I was happy to read a post from UU minister, Victoria Weinstein: Last Sunday morning I picked up the phone in the office. After I said, “Good morning,...

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God As Trickster with Rev. Phil Sweet

The trickster is a beloved figure of mine, disruptive, breaking the rules, violating the norms, challenging authority, pricking our pomposity. He is mythological in nature, corresponding to inner psychic experience. There is another side to God then the one we were taught, darker, fiercer, not at all related to our...

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Poststructuralism with Terry Goode

Poststructuralism and Its Influence on Unitarianism Poststructuralism is a philosophical, literary and social movement that says everything is culturally based, and thus culturally biased.  The claim is that there is no objective truth, just truth filtered by cultural bias, and that bias is controlled by authorizing and validating power structures....

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Guidelines for Living with Dick Smythe

Do any of us deliberately structure our lives, our behavior, by any rules or guidelines?  I would guess many of us go through life reflecting some combination of parental lessons we received in childhood and the life lessons we have experienced as adults.  Those of us with a deep Christian...

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Spending Time in the Chrysalis with Marie Luna

When a monarch caterpillar pupates into a chrysalis, its entire body breaks down during metamorphosis. Since leaving her position at the Fox Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Marie has been experiencing a similar feeling, and has learned a lot about “living in the goo”. Life transitions, planned or unplanned, can be...

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