Michael Nelson and Charles Dedmon ask, “What, exactly, is nothing? Outside of humor what does the very elusive term, nothing, do to help us understand our world? The beginnings of things, the ignored snail darter, the perfect vacuum, what is after life; all of these somethings are often seen as nothing.” https://uufm.net/mp3s/sunday_2015-05-10.mp3Podcast: Play in new … Continue reading Audio Archive, May 10 – Venturing Forth: The Vast Cosmos and the Theory of Nothing
The I-70 UU Chorus, composed of singers from the Shawnee Mission, Lawrence, and Manhattan UU congregations, performs a benefit concert at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Manhattan. The program is below the fold. Suggestion: click on the “Continue reading” link before starting the audio stream. https://uufm.net/mp3s/sunday_2015-04-11.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 47:15 — 32.4MB)Subscribe: … Continue reading Audio Archive, Apr. 11 – I-70 UU Chorus in Concert
“An authentically anti-opressice, anti racist Unitarian Universalist faith will be equitable, pro-acitve, soul-transforming, phrophetic force for justice within our congregations and communities. This faith will be effective and accountable, both to itself and to oour communities, through transformative spirituality, justice seeking, witness, and action.” This vision statement from the 1997 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly is … Continue reading Journey Toward Wholeness
Indra’s web, a symbol from Mahayana Buddhism, pictures the jewel-like connecting points of all that exists. When ever a force of destruction occurs there’s a rip in the fabric of all that is. In every day human relations we know there are moments when we can feel that rip—when we have felt, said, done something that causes harm. We are … Continue reading Interdependent Links
In the March issue of the Kansas Electric Cooperatives magazine, while it devotes much of this issue to birding in our state, (a very good thing) to my surprise has an article addressing the problem of the negative conversations that occur about important political and cultural issues in our state and country. Tim Steffensmeier, an Associate … Continue reading Can We Change The Conversation?
“Crime is a routine behavior; it’s a thing people do when they get used to doing it…” Zimring, 1/30/12 New Yorker “Curbing crime does not depend on reversing social pathologies or alleviating social grievances; it depends on erecting small, annoying barriers to entry.” Adam Gopnik Crime is not curtailed by punishment nor by being nice. … Continue reading Pathology and Opportunity
How I See It……………..by Dorothy Wells I have been researching my family history for several years and have had success on the Internet genealogy sites. Left with old pictures and obituaries by my mother and the names of the states my ancestors lived in, I began to piece together the lives of my family. I … Continue reading Lack Of Humanity
“A good deal of time and intelligence has been invested in the exposure of racism and the horrific results on its objects … It seems both poignant and striking how avoided and unanalyzed is the effect of racist inflection on the subjects. The scholarship that looks into the mind, imagination, and behavior of slaves is … Continue reading A Few Questions On Racism
“Bad as all slave holders are, we seldom meet one destitute of every element of character commanding respect. My master was one of the rare sort. I do not know of one single noble act ever performed by him. The leading trait in his character was meanness; and if there was any other element … Continue reading Do No Harm
Merry meet, everyone, and hang on to your hats, witches! On Saturday, October 29th we’ll be celebrating our Samhain Sabbat, better known to the muggles as Halloween. This is set to be a great time for everyone as we honor the dead when the veil between our two worlds is thinnest. We’ll start by having our potluck dinner … Continue reading Pagan Circle Events
