Inspiration

UU thoughts, sermons, music

Trying Religion: Embracing the New Universalism

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“With the seventh principle as a calling to the very wisdom of our hearts of how and why the individual is precious, that we are completely woven out of each other and the cosmos itself in a living song of intimacy is where we find our completeness.”

A Meditation on the First & Seventh Principles of Unitarian Universalism as a Saving Message, Together With a Buddhist Midrash

Delivered at the 2014 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, 28 June 2014, Providence, Rhode Island by James Ishmael Ford, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Church of Providence
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Are You Happy In Your Work?

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Inspiration from UUs around the country (and the world)

Music from 1970 by the late Ric Masten, with the Starr King School For The Ministry Band

Ric Masten, who called himself “an ordained troubadour minister”, was a poet and folksinger whose traveling Unitarian Universalist ministry was formed of music, poetry, and humor.

The Dude, the Zen Master, and Community

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“You perfect your instrument, which is yourself, to become a player. But playing in a band, where you hear the sounds of all the instruments, is very different from playing alone.”

Bernie Glassman in The Dude and the Zen Master by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

 

Mango Thoughts in a Meatloaf Town

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Inspiration from UUs around the country (and the world)

Music by Rev. Meg Barnhouse, currently minister at First Unitarian Universalist, Austin

Rev. Meg was the keynote speaker (and singer) at our District Assembly this spring, so we heard her do this live.

All Will Be Well

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Inspiration from UUs around the country (and the world)

All Will Be Well from Meg Barnhouse on Myspace.

Rev. Meg Barnhouse is currently minister at First Unitarian Universalist, Austin, Texas.

Rev. Meg was the keynote speaker (and singer) at our District Assembly this spring, so we heard her do this live.  The song is a conversation with Julian of Norwich, who was an English mystic, the first woman to write a book in English, and a universalist in belief.