“Perhaps if I could pull my senses back to the scraping squeak of the window opening that welcomes the pasture’s chorus of peepers into my room, whose resonate tones glide over my bed sheet and mental haze, I’d remember to listen to my amphibian friends’ primordial call: We are one, we are one, we are one… Split Plate … Continue reading We Are One
“In my mind’s eye, I like to visit the most remarkable Hall of Fame ever. It’s filled with the usual suspects, Thor, Zeus, and Yahweh. But my favorite conversations come from hanging out with the Goddess Eostra and her good friend, and rabble rouser, Jesus.” Split Plate Offering: WeCan If you are not able to join … Continue reading A Journey to the Gods and Goddess Hall of Fame
Few things can transform us the way laughter can. So often we get entombed by an experience, condition or worry, which then dominates our life and eclipses the good. And yet friends, there is one sure fire way out, one transformative experience, that can get us out if we let it. Split Plate Offering: UNICEF … Continue reading The Elixer of Life
So often we think it’s other peoples actions, or behaviors that are at the core of our unhappiness.And yet, perhaps there is a different answer, one that takes an internal transformation rather than external one. Split Plate OfferingCape Wellness CollaborativeIf you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the service … Continue reading Liberating Oneself From Unhappiness
Critical Race Theory is at its most basic a real reckoning with our past, which includes, well. . . some unmitigated naked truths. In accepting those truths as facts, as ours, how can we better dream of an America that expands us, enlivens us, and seeks to heal rather than further divide? Split Plate … Continue reading Widening our Understanding of History
One of our Unitarian Universalist heroes is Henry David Thoreau, and while there are many things I admire about him, I’ve come to believe he was wrong on this one single point. I have a feeling you will, too. Split Plate OfferingUU Mass Action Network If you are not able to join us in person, we … Continue reading Taking One’s Moral Inventory
That’s right feminist, with a big fat, voluptuous curvy F! It’s hard to believe that misogyny is alive and well again but with the overturning of Roe it’s clearly back in fashion. The number of rulings that make women’s bodies not belong to them anymore is honestly. . .staggering. Hoping to build on what it … Continue reading “It’s Time to Pull Out the F word!”
I think Jim Lieb, our church president, got it right when he said, “Alma is the spirit of First Parish Brewster” LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN SO THERE IS NO CONFUSION THIS MORNING: Alma is the spirit of First Parish Brewster… Come see what I mean, and jump into all it means to celebrate and support First … Continue reading “To Alma with Love”
Jesus was once asked what is the most important law to follow and he said, “Love your lord your God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself.” This is such a complicated and seemingly odd practice, that it might just seems impossible. At yet, it might just be one of the most … Continue reading Do I Really Have to?
