Delivered at the 2018 Annual Meeting Executive Director’s get to be administrator’s sometimes and evangelists at other times. Today, I am an evangelist. Have you seen Black Panther, the movie? There are a lot of good metaphors from the Marvel Comics movie Black Panther. If you have yet to see it, you probably can rent […]
The Light of Change
“I am open and I am willing To be hopeless would seem so strange It dishonors those who go before us So lift me up to the light of change.” (“I Am Willing,” Holly Near) The last of the Ferry Beach flags have been taken down and the water drained from the pipes underneath Rowland, […]
Hope
“Universalism was born out of the new humanity;it is the gospel of the new heaven and the new earth.It throbs with hope. It was part of the great world movement to reinterpretlife in terms of a regenerated, buoyant, self-assertive human nature.” – Clarence Skinner (1915) Gun control legislation failed, the sea is rising, the middle East […]
Universal Love: A Conversion Experience
In his December post in Quest for Meaning, the publication of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, a UU Congregation Without Walls, Prof. Mark Morrison-Reed writes about a conversion experience of his own: “Listening to Gordon McKeeman talking about the ‘Persistence of Universalism’ I got it. This was a religion of radical and overpowering love. Universal […]