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First Parish Fitchburg: 7/15/12 - 7/22/12

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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, July 16, 2012. Art from the Art Party. These are a few photos from Leaf's art party, which she auctioned off this year. It was super fun and creative. Next year you come, too. Robert, Living Art. Snippets of our conversation. What were we discussing, anyway? Posted by Rev. Leaf Seligman. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Clara Barton District Newsletters. A Year Later, Haiti Struggles Back. Jennifer's Story: Surviving the War in Northern Uganda.

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First Parish Fitchburg: 4/24/11 - 5/1/11

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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, April 25, 2011. This sermon service includes testimonials by Ann Saalbach, Amanda Chaves, and. On this Easter morning, as the tight buds on branches reinvent spring, let us consider resurrection as Wendell Berry, the great Kentucky farmer-poet does. So friends, every day do something. That won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world …. Ask questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest. Last week,...

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First Parish Fitchburg: 5/15/11 - 5/22/11

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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, May 16, 2011. The Call to Joy. I wasn’t sure I understood the question so I wrote it on a memo board. Daily, I pondered how my friend had phrased her question. She didn’t say, “What would mean to be happy? 8221; She didn’t ask what it would mean to be content or satisfied. She asked what it would mean to answer the call to joy. Is joy a religious experience? Joy is not a solution to suffering but it is a response. In an institution intended to dehumanize, fiftee...

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First Parish Fitchburg: A New Paradigm

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There was an error in this gadget. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Recently I listened to an interview on my favorite public radio show, On Being. Krista Tippett interviewed Christian Wiman, a poet, essayist, and editor of Poetry Magazine. If] you think about yourself in church all those years ago in west Texas, the church you grew up in, which was just given to you like the air you breathed and then when you're in church now, what's going on that's different? How is that experience different? 8220;Worshippers...

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First Parish Fitchburg: Art from the Art Party

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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, July 16, 2012. Art from the Art Party. These are a few photos from Leaf's art party, which she auctioned off this year. It was super fun and creative. Next year you come, too. Robert, Living Art. Snippets of our conversation. What were we discussing, anyway? Posted by Rev. Leaf Seligman. Clara Barton District Newsletters. A Year Later, Haiti Struggles Back. Jennifer's Story: Surviving the War in Northern Uganda. Yom Kippur at Sea. Standing On The Side Of Love.

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First Parish Fitchburg: 12/11/11 - 12/18/11

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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, December 12, 2011. What's Larger Than Us? People but what are the rest of us to do? But a bit like my child-self thinking I had dreamed up the world, we believe we have conjured story when in actuality we don’t create story so much as inhabit it. We rely on stories, biblical or literary, scientific, even musical to instruct and assure us we belong. The untamed grasses tickling. The clear belly of sky…. The ground plump with stories,. To the intricate workings.

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First Parish Fitchburg: 2/5/12 - 2/12/12

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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, February 6, 2012. Given that the New England Patriots are squaring off against the New York Giants, I suspect the religious fervor has spread to the northeast. Though it may seem an exaggeration to compare football with religion there are similarities. Both have organized behaviors, specific rituals, congregants, sacred spaces and objects, feast days (have you noticed the grocery displays this week? While Jesus purportedly said,. Consider this headline from the ...

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First Parish Fitchburg: 4/3/11 - 4/10/11

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There was an error in this gadget. Monday, April 4, 2011. The World According to Autism. My sister, Sand, called me last week to tell me April is Autism Awareness Month, with yesterday, the 2nd, designated Autism Awareness Day. I asked her if she wanted to offer a testimonial. She declined because she is not comfortable speaking in public but she agreed to write about her experience. I have edited her remarks for concision but otherwise I present to you what she wrote. I am learning by working with child...

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First Parish Fitchburg: 9/30/12 - 10/7/12

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There was an error in this gadget. Wednesday, October 3, 2012. Souls bold enough to experiment, UU World Fall ‘12 (by Meg Muckenhoupt). But All Souls didn’t just allow the Hospitality Center to occupy unused space. The congregation installed showers in their new building so that the homeless guests could bathe. They decided to engage people’s bodies and invited people into the heart of their space…. The Rev. Sue Phillips, district executive for the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Clara Bar...Don&#82...

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First Parish Fitchburg: 6/24/12 - 7/1/12

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There was an error in this gadget. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Recently I listened to an interview on my favorite public radio show, On Being. Krista Tippett interviewed Christian Wiman, a poet, essayist, and editor of Poetry Magazine. If] you think about yourself in church all those years ago in west Texas, the church you grew up in, which was just given to you like the air you breathed and then when you're in church now, what's going on that's different? How is that experience different? 8220;Worshippers...