In the course of living, at some point, we get hurt. Through our hurt, even as we heal, we may continue to grow differently. To paraphrase Thomas Moore, We may take on depth of color and range of feeling. Our intelligence may now more deeply be rooted and not dependent only on facts and reason. … Continue reading The Wounded Healer
2nd Unitarian Church of Omaha has been a spiritual home for freedom loving folks seeking to live authentically, to seek the truth in Love, and to help their neighbor believe more fully in life since the 1970s. Through times of lean and times of plenty this community has demonstrated it’s staying power by the stewardship … Continue reading The Home That Love Made
One could quite easily tell a complete story about the Civil Rights movement without mentioning the term “Unitarian Universalist”, but you would be unable to tell a complete story of our faith without mentioning the movement for Black Empowerment both within and outside of our Living Tradition. This Sunday, let us hear the story of … Continue reading Love, Rage, and Liberation: Black History and Unitarian Universalism
“…the vastness is bearable only through Love.” So writes the great cosmologist and science popularizer Carl Sagan in his science-fiction book “Contact”, a story exploring the implications of extraterrestrial communications with the human race and the rapid fire, overwhelming changes that may accompany such a signal. While our skies may yet be empty we nonetheless … Continue reading For Small Creatures Such as We
“Love is the spirit of this church”…So it is said in so many Unitarian Universalist congregations across the country. This lead-in to the covenant written by the 19th century Unitarian minister James Villa Blake, beloved by so many, invokes the name of Love not as something flimsy and ephemeral but as the ground of our … Continue reading 2U and Article 2: Love Illuminating
Concluding our January theme of Finding Our Center, I’m drawn to the deliberate analogy contained in the proposed UU Values. As we look towards the future of our liberal tradition, we are being called to put Love at the center of our values. Let’s explore this new framing and contemplate attitudes we might adopt to … Continue reading Love At Our Center: An Exploration of Teachings On Compassion
Fifty years ago today the Supreme Court of the United States of America sided 7 to 2 in favor of a person’s right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy. This landmark decision was a major victory for Women’s Liberation, but it further underscored the fundamental right we all have to bodily autonomy and self-determination. … Continue reading Centered on Justice: Anniversary of Roe v. Wade (Video)
Our faith as we know it today first found it’s roots in the struggle for civil rights led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and tomorrow these United States will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day for the 40th time since being signed into law in 1983 by President Reagan. This Sunday, let us … Continue reading Centered on Justice: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We call ourselves The Living Tradition. What does this mean? And for that matter what does it mean to be a Unitarian Universalist in 2023? We share many things; being covenanted communities, congregational polity, at least 7 principles and 6 sources enshrined within Article 2 of our denominational bylaws, but this has not always been … Continue reading The Living Tradition: Article 2 and U
This Sunday we stand just through the precipice, moving into the new year of 2023 and our theme for the month of January: the Center. Here at 2nd Unitarian we will be exploring the lore behind that old Roman God of beginnings, passageways, endings, and change; Janus, and the legacy this often underlooked figure has … Continue reading Janus: At the Doorway to the Center (Video)
