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Haiku
Poem in the form of a haiku using imagery from the story of Elijah the prophet (1 Kings 9:11-12) to describe the many voices of the pipe organ.
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Evening Offering
An attempt to describe an encounter with Cernunnos while offering my evening devotions
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Rainbow Spirits
On January 25, 2017, I led a worship service at the Oak Ridge (TN) Unitarian Universalist Church celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. The following is the sermon I gave that morning. Sources are documented throughout. Rainbow Spirits: Celebrating Pride Sermon – ORUUC – June 25, 2017 They will march, walk, wheel, dance, shimmy and shakeBlock upon…
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Singing the Journey
During March, my Unitarian Universalist congregation has been exploring the idea of Covenant. When I googled the word covenant, I came up with all kinds of definitions centered around contracts and legal agreements, with added notes of religion and sacred use. It is true that we often hear about covenant in a religious context, the…
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Songs against Hate
Last week, we heard about yet another black man killed by police. And immediately after that, we heard about another. As if that wasn’t enough, less than 24 hours later, a sniper killed five police officers who were working a Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas. A few weeks ago, it was a mass shooting…
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