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April 2014

April 27, 2014
THE SCHOOL OF LOVE A Meditation by Gwendolyn Howard and James Ishmael Ford 27 April...
April 25, 2014
Ah! It was on this day in 1792 that Claude Joseph Rougel de Lisle composed...
April 24, 2014
It was today in 1800 that President John Adams signed legislation authorizing $5,000 to create...
April 22, 2014
How to Know God An atheist mystic meets the goddess of love. In my youth...
April 20, 2014
LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH An Easter Meditation James Ishmael Ford Text Set me...
April 19, 2014
April 18, 2014
A SONG OF INTERDEPENDENCE A Celebration of Communion for Unitarian Universalists Preface For nearly three...
April 16, 2014
Terence Alan Milligan, better known to many as Spike, was born on this day in...
April 15, 2014
No, this is not a holiday I invented for me... Among the ancient Romans, as...
April 14, 2014
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on this day in 1891
April 13, 2014
SHAKING OFF OUR CHAINS A Passover Sermon James Ishmael Ford 13 April 2014 First Unitarian...
April 12, 2014
Thank you for asking. I claim, with a tip of the hat to Erasmus, a...
April 11, 2014
Today is Luther Johnson's birthday. Everyone should listen to some blues in his honor...
April 08, 2014
Among followers of the Mahayana, the Great Way school of Buddhism, of which the Zen...
April 05, 2014
Thomas Hobbes was born on this day in 1588. Among other things he addressed questions...
April 03, 2014
It was on this day in 1855 that Theodore Parker, Unitarian Transcendentalist minister was put...
April 01, 2014
Today is the feast of fools. It is also Arthur Smith's birthday. A fool for...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
John Donne died on this day in 1631. Donne was variously a lawyer, member of...
March 30, 2014
FALLEN AMONG THIEVES A Meditation on the Parable of the Good Samaritan James Ishmael Ford...
March 27, 2014
I had a recent brief and light exchange of notes on Facebook with someone about...
March 26, 2014
By some traditions today is the birthday of the prophet Zoroaster. Zoroaster is often considered...
March 25, 2014
The Western church celebrates today as the feast of St Dismas, the name that has...
March 25, 2014
It was on this day in 1811 that Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford...
March 24, 2014
"Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before...
March 23, 2014
LOVE YOUR MOTHER A Meditation on Life & Death, Intoxication, Sobering Up, and Saving the...
March 21, 2014
Another cover of Leonard Cohen's mystic treatise, this one by Hannah Trigwell...
March 21, 2014
On this day in 1556, Thomas Cranmer, onetime henchman to Henry VIII, principal editor of...
March 19, 2014
On this day in 1918, a gathering of drunkards, petty criminals and other forms of...
March 18, 2014
Today is my spouse Jan Seymour-Ford's sixty-third birthday. In June we'll have been married thirty-three...
March 17, 2014
Big day, today... I know many are awash in green beer, one of the more...
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