Many of us are used to the idea of “Charitable Giving.” Many of us do it regularly. Is our aim to help the needy, the less fortunate? Or can money be for healing, for mutuality, for a reciprocal relationship of give and take without superiority and inferiority? Let’s see what that might look like. Our … Continue reading Money and Reciprocity
Join Tony Filipovitch for a service reflecting on Thanksgiving, native wisdom, and a Haudenosaunee ritual of gratitude as described in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The Zoom information for Sunday Worship is below: UUFM Sunday Morning Virtual Worship 10:30 am Followed by … Continue reading The Thanksgiving Address
This morning we honor a long-standing tradition conceived in new ways for our strangely distanced times. Worship bags will be available prior to the service, so that we might enjoy breaking bread together although we are physically apart. Our space is virtual, but our worship is real, vital, and life-sustaining. The Zoom information for … Continue reading Healing through Companionship—Celebrating Bread Communion
Culturally, we have learned to react in horror to a wound—to see it as ugly, untoward, something to cover over, to forget about, to keep out of the light of day. If we admit that some wounds simply don’t heal—don’t close up and fade away—much as we would like them to, can we learn to … Continue reading When Wounds Don’t Heal
Our American democratic system holds much promise for equality and justice for all, yet we know that it has never functioned in an entirely inclusive and equitable way. As we face the realities of the election, whatever they may be, we will have to work hard for the justice that has not yet been achieved. … Continue reading Healing (from) Our Democracy.
Healing has been described in terms of retreating from engagement: going off alone to lick your wounds, rolling up in a blanket, taking a time out. What might it look like if healing ourselves and our world required more intense, more loving, more expansive engagement? Let’s imagine together action that flies and dances and moves … Continue reading When Holding Nothing Back is Healing.
