On Memorial Day, I often find myself asking: “How does one give a ‘true’ Memorial Day Sermon?” A sermon that doesn’t contain the fiction and mythology of war, but gets to the heart of the struggle of what the day is meant to do and the reasons we have such a hard time both holding … Continue reading The Burdens they Carried
In this age of polarization, we are surrounded by a pluralism of beliefs, actions and viewpoints that are not our own. Given that, it seems worth exploring the breadth and depth of someone else’s pain that is not our own. Especially when we don’t understand or particularly like that someone else that much. Split Plate Offering: Mashpee … Continue reading The Empathy Gap
Loving one’s shadow. It’s lifetime work: bringing our exiled parts back into belonging and befriending again the parts we’ve long hidden. A co-joining of sorts to unbox ourselves, to claim finally an interdependent integrated self. Join us as we talk about how that work may require something different than we thought. Split Plate Offering: Association for the … Continue reading The Integration of Our Whole Selves
The grit of the people to change, re-claim and re-create! Split Plate Offering: Brewster Ponds Coalition If you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the servicelive on our YouTube channel, found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx25Z7yBfsFqneQjThk5-pAIf you have problems streaming, please let the office know. We have a Mask Optional policy. There is one area in … Continue reading Happy Earth Day! An Unexpected Hope
“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
