September 12, 2021 Worship Service: The World’s Largest Living ThingOn This InGathering Sunday, we’ll use poetry and imagery to consider the world’s largest Living Organism (Pando) and what Pando has to teach us. Make your offering at https://tiny.cc/fusd-give Share0 Tweet0 Share0 To share this story, please click on the social media badges above. If you […]
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Click To Download PDF September 2021 Ploughshare Posted Date: September 9, 2021
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A Reframed Piece of Mike’s Mind…Starting in October, our Racial Justice Project at First Unitarian Denver is going to be initiating a conversation among our congregation about racism and reparations. My column this month provides a little of my own thinking about the background for this conversation. Ta-Nehisi Coates recently wrote: Basically, Americans […]
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BalanceBalance is a beautiful thing. Balance is also our Whole Souul Living Theme for September. In a technical sense, balance is an equal distribution of weight that enables steadiness. Balance is also about correct proportions: of power, justice, prosperity, Love… ideals seldom achieved but deeply worthy. In these busy and troubled times, all of us […]
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September 5, 2021 Worship Service: The Work of the WorldRiffing on Mary Oliver’s poem The Summer Day, on this Labor Day weekend we’ll consider work, the work of the world, the work of our hands, the work of our lives. Make your offering at https://tiny.cc/fusd-give Share0 Tweet0 Share0 To share this story, please click on […]
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August 29, 2021 Worship Service: We the PeopleAs both a national and global society today, tensions run disturbingly and continually near the boiling point. Chaos and turmoil seem to abound. As polarized factions, we remain at war with one another, gridlocked in a stalemate that can feel completely insurmountable. The consequences have been, and continue […]
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August 22, 2021 Worship Service: The Spirit of ConversationAs news of the spread of new COVID variants continues to emerge, our UU congregations – and indeed, many other congregations across the country – are wrestling with the decision to return to in-person worship. How is spirit leading us to approach these discussions? What do our […]
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August 15, 2021 Worship: Standing on the Shoulders of GiantsOn this Sunday that is on the 150th anniversary of the founding of 1st Unitarian Denver, we’ll look back on the history of Liberal Religion 1st Unitarian Society of Denver. This Sunday will also be our first Sunday in over a year with live congregants in […]
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August 8, 2021 Worship: OceansIContinuing our series on the spirit of life on Earth, today we’ll look at oceans. What are we learning about oceans and the global community connected by water? What do we owe the oceans in terms of human culture and civilization? What do oceans have to teach us spiritually? Make your […]
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SpiritSpirit is our Whole Souul Living Theme for August. The word spiritual comes from the Latin spirare, the breath. Later this became spiritus, meaning, “the animating or vital principle in man and animals: soul, courage, breath, or vigor.” Many consider the spiritual to be supernatural or otherworldly, but with the definition above there is no […]
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