The focus of this Sunday’s service will be the mission of our Fellowship, and in particular that part of the mission statement that says:”We are committed to nurturing the connections that draw us together.”
Join with members and friends in exploring our ideas about what those connections are and what we do now and can do [...]
Dear Members and Friends,
Stepping down. It has been two very busy years. And I am ready to change roles. As I have indicated previously, I will be involved in some fairly intensive religious education starting in the Fall. Clare, Kathy Herron and I will be teaching Our Whole Lives, a Unitarian Universalist program of sex [...]
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: All things with which we deal, preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? I’m not sure what he meant by gospel, but I will assume he meant that which is true–one of the definitions offered by Webster. Anyway, I like the metaphor. Emerson was a Transcendentalist who [...]
Do you remember from your high school English class, Keats’ poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? The final lines are ones that many of us had to memorize, but are lines which scholars have argued about forever. They go like this: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all [...]
The sermon topic this Sunday is Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty, a title obviously based on the Keats’ Ode to a Grecian Urn. While the world we inhabit is filled with ugliness and tragedy, sorrow and grief, I nevertheless also witness from time to time, a greater standard which never ceases to inspire and move [...]
