He walks freely in the world,And goes just one way.From the eternal past to the eternal future,He is alone,No one accompanies him.If you ask him how old he is,He will look at you with a smile,And point to the endless sky. Jakushitsu (translated by Nyogen Senzaki) Read more

Jason Pitzel-Waters over at my favorite UU Pagan blog writes of the recent purchase of Beliefnet dot Com. All that follows is lifted from Jason’s blog: According to Fishbowl NY, religious mega-site Beliefnet has been purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (which owns Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and MySpace). “Steve Waldman’s belief paid off today when News Corp. purchased Beliefnet.com, the spirituality-based Web site Waldman founded in 1999 and has run as editor-in-chief since. In response to an... Read more

(Thanks to Chalice Chick who got it from Peacebang*) *Look for links to the right… Read more

While researching for last Sunday’s sermon one of the threads I followed although never used was that inspirational story which I’ve heard in a variety of ways, featuring a small girl (my favorite), a boy (just about as good), an old man (okay) and a rabbi (also okay). (these okays, etc are not meant to be value judgements, only represent tastebuds…) I had in the back of my mind that it was something by Loren Eiseley. And as I began... Read more

A bit on the violent side, but hey, that’s sometimes just the way the mind on meditation is. Also, a warning. The second part is just as much the mind doing its thing as the first. Watch. Let go… Watch some more. And let go some more… (Thank you, Josh!) Read more

LIGHTING CANDLESA Hanukkah Reflection A Sermon by James Ishmael Ford 2 December 2007First Unitarian SocietyWest Newton, Massachusetts Text What are we, any of us, but strangers and sojourners forlornly wandering through the nighttime, until we draw together and find the meaning of our lives in one another, dissolving our fears in each other’s courage, making music together, and lighting torches to guide us through the dark? We belong together. Love is what we need. To love and to be loved.... Read more

In 1988 the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention called for a World AIDS Day, a time to call people’s attention to this terrible pandemic. December 1st was chosen to be that day. Here is a story by Jane Greer from last year on the liberal religious response to AIDS. World AIDS Day is led by the World’s AIDS Campaign. Check them out. The life you save may be your own. It certainly will be... Read more

This lovely version is sung by a Tibetan named Yang Jin… Read more

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   “You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. The Inland North   The... Read more

I posted this early in October, but I think it worth re-posting. Find it interesting? You might check out the Unitarian Universalist Association Website. Read more