While other languages may carry various terms to define the particulates of Love, here in the English speaking west we have just the one word; one which has been pecked at by the vultures of culture for as long as folks have had a longing in their hearts, change in their pockets, and a desire … Continue reading Love At The Center: Something New, Something Wild, Something Beautiful
Has it ever felt as if you were more than simply the one stable mind piloting your body through the world? Perhaps you feel like you are somehow different at work or at play, at home or at church, with one group of people as opposed to another group. Perhaps we have often wondered what … Continue reading A Mirror, Mosaic: Multiplicities of the Self & the Undivided Life
We live in a time that keeps insisting there is too much of us. “Shrink” it says. Take up less room. Earn your place by disappearing a little more. This Sunday, let us proclaim the opposite. Pluralism calls us to celebrate that we are all sacred beings, and that all leaves no body behind. Every … Continue reading Claiming Space: Fat Liberation
Every year on the Sunday after Omaha pride, we here at 2nd Unitarian hold our annual Rainbow Blessing to proclaim Love for our queer siblings and selves and to recommit to the continual expansion of Love for Love’s sake. This Sunday, gather with friends and fellow travelers to receive a mark of Love as we … Continue reading The Rainbow Blessing: We Are Light
Ours is a faith which calls us to honor, uphold, and promote the living power or true pluralism; creating spaces where all sorts of people can belong and thrive no matter how they think, feel, or move through the world. This Sunday let us explore the legacy of disability advocacy, nurturing the spiritual practice of … Continue reading The Shape We’re In: Disability, Pluralism, and the Beloved Community
The Power of Pluralism: Community Organizing and Spiritual Practice For many, if not most Unitarian Universalists, social justice is held as a profound expression of spirituality; an inheritance of change making lovingly carried to this day. For all our passion for the cause, how much do we know about the motions of movements? This Sunday, … Continue reading The Power of Pluralism
Unitarian Universalists are a diverse bunch with different beliefs, but we generally hold to the idea that nobody wins in the waging of war. Nonetheless, many of us have served, are serving, or know someone who served. Some of us loved someone who lost their lives in service. On Memorial Day, the United States honors … Continue reading Memorial Day
The story of Pentecost in the Christian tradition tells of how the apostles, following the death of Jesus, were suffused with power from on high to prophesy. All were suddenly able to speak and be heard regardless of language barriers. It is in a similar vein one might consider the prophetic power of Malcolm X, … Continue reading Tongues of Fire: Pentecost, Pluralism, & The Power of Malcolm X (Video)
May begins our exploration of Pluralism, an ethic of intentionally welcoming a diverse cast of people and elevating the fruits that can only emerge amongst people sharing community while carrying different experiences, backgrounds, identities, abilities, ages, and perspectives…Continue reading
