Electing a Piece of Mike’s Mind…Predictably, anxiety around the coming election is high! Stress, worry, fear, hope, anger, exhaustion, determination, and feelings I don’t even have words for are all present. Everyone, literally everyone, I’ve spoken with recently is feeling the weight of this election, its importance, and potential consequences. We’ve been here before. We […]
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FreedomOur Whole Souul Living Theme for September is Freedom, a profoundly important idea in liberal religion.Osho wrote; “True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.” Victor Frankl wrote, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies […]
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A Cultural Activist Piece of Mike’s Mind…By request, my column this month is a portion of the sermon from July 12th on white supremacy culture.“…When we say white supremacy culture, we are referring to the common cultural assumptions, cultural expectations, cultural associations…, the hundreds of unspoken, unwritten, but intimately familiar ways that culturally exclude, punish, […]
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HospitalityHospitality is an ancient value. Legend has it the Hebrew prophet Elijah would wander about disguised as a beggar to test whether people would be hospitable or hostile. On one occasion, a rabbi turned him away, only to learn later that it was Elijah in disguise. The moral in the Hebrew tradition is that you […]
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