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Learning to Walk the Talk

In this week after the #WhiteSupremacyTeachIn, I’ve been pondering all the many ways I fail, over and over again. It’s a long learning process, one I’ve been working on for many years, and one that I will continue to work on for the rest of my life, I’m sure. During my childhood, I absorbed so very many messages about race and people from my family and the adults around…

New Faces, New Spaces

Discomfort & Language & Moral Imperatives

I think that the fundamental process of conversation is one of the great miracles of nature, that two people communicating with each other is an extraordinary phenomenon that has so far defied all attempts to capture it. There have been attempts made in many different disciplines—in cognitive…

Gentle. Angry.

Lately, one of the hymns we sing in Unitarian Universalist services has been going through my head: “We are a Gentle, Angry People.” (Editor’s note — Here’s a YouTube video of the hymn being sung by its composer, Holly Near, at the 2004 March for Women’s Lives) The lyric from which the title is drawn reminds us to always confront…

Visiting Others’ Homes…

I like visiting other people’s homes, and visiting people in their homes. We express ourselves in those spaces in ways that are unique, revealing parts of ourselves that may not be on display at work or in public or in our civic lives. As a guest in another’s home, I am offered a glimpse into their life through what I see and hear and smell and feel there. And when I have…

Howard County and South Carolina in the Same Shape, or Not

April 25, 2017
Frank Hazzard
Voices of UUCC

I have long been aware that my UUCC isn’t the only one. In fact, there is another congregation by the same name (and therefore acronym) in South Carolina. Recently I was wondering what the other Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbia was like. This led me to also wonder what the other…

The F Word(s)

April 20, 2017 Big F, little f, what begins with F? “Four fluffy feathers on a Fiffer-feffer-feff,” says Dr. Seuss. But I’m thinking of a different F-word a lot recently. F-A-I-L-U-R-E. Failure, said the Rev. Alma Faith Crawford* to a group of clergy years ago, is The F-word that most haunts many of us. Big Failures, little failures. Our sense of failure causes…

I Believe in Fairies

April 20, 2017
Robin Slaw
Voices of UUCC

When a child says, “I believe in fairies,” what does that say to you? UUCC’s Director of Religious Education explores the need and purpose of magic, the imagination, and hope.