With the election just days away, with infections spreading here in Oregon and in almost every state, with the US Senate moving a problematic new appointment to the Supreme Court forward with no bipartisan support, with the recession deepening and a new relief bill still … read more.
Our ballots arrived at the house yesterday. I’ve been looking for them, anxious to actually have them in hand. I have needed this election, which is somehow different, more dangerous and more fraught, to get concrete.
Even those of us, and there are many when we … read more.
Pledges and gifts to the Our Path Forward campaign continued to come in after Celebration Sunday. But only a few now and it is time to report on how we did and how we will move forward.
First, the results:
The top line is that we came … read more.
The warm weather and blue skies of this week have colluded to obscure the turning of the season. The smoke of the fires, by obscuring the sun, made the late summer temperatures feel more like fall. Now early fall feels like summer.
I had begun to feel dis-oriented and un-grounded. The surreal truth of … read more.
Tom Turnipseed in 1968 when he was a manager of the George Wallace campaign for US President
The mainstream press (alias The Fake News) is abuzz this morning over the US President’s latest promise to dismantle the last of our democratic institutions and his refusal to … read more.
The financial settlement for the family of Breonna Taylor, $12 million in cash and promises of police reform, was announced this week. Time will tell whether the reforms become real. A clear-eyed look at past promises suggests that hope should be cautious at best.
It is … read more.
I am thinking back to Homecoming Sundays in other years, remembering the excitement of anticipation and then the rightness of seeing so many members of the community gathering once again in the sanctuary. “Rightness” is a good word to describe that feeling of sensing once … read more.
Dear Members and Friends,
It is not news that much is changing…for us and for the world. We are living through such losses. At the same time, we are discovering resilience in ourselves and new possibilities for our path forward at First Unitarian.
Since we closed our … read more.
The Bradford UU Church survived the fires of Monday night, some of which burned adjacent to their building. More important, their sense of mission and the priorities in their ministry emerged with such clarity.
On Tuesday, … read more.
Out of long experience, I have come to expect the increase in energy in the church as the inevitable end of summer approaches and we look toward the beginning of a “new church year.”
I wondered, this year, what that energy might be like. I wondered … read more.
