Forgiving the sticks, stones and words that wound A Rosh Hashanah meditation Preached at the Unitarian Church in Charleston, S.C. I am the youngest of five children. The baby. I have a brother who is two years older than I am. Then, there is a
Read the rest of the Via Positiva: Cosmic Kindergarten series Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost: I will strike you down and cut off your head. (1 Samuel 17:32-51) Peace! Be still! (Mark 4:35-41) Our first song comes from a
Jubilee! Circle, Columbia, S.C. Readings for the Eighth Sunday after Epiphany: I will not forget you. (Isaiah 49:8-16) Do not be anxious about your life… (Matthew 6:24-34) Joseph Fidler Walsh was born in 1947 in Wichita, Kansas. During his career Joe Walsh played in several
Living in the present: Only the present moment is real Only the present moment is real and available to us. The peace we desire is not in some distant future, but it is something we can realize in the present moment. (Thich Nhat Hahn, Interbeing:
We should be happy that [Jesus] did not say, “Like your enemies.” It is almost impossible to like some people. (Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love) I was in third grade when I acquired my first enemy. Her name was Linda. She was a
My love affair with books began long before I could read. I remember carrying around a particular book as a child. I could not make out a word of it, but I liked the look and feel of the book in my hands. I liked
Nobody likes to be wrong. Being wrong means we have put our faith in the wrong things, believed the wrong information, maybe even been intentionally misled. Being proved wrong is no fun, and makes us question our intelligence, and makes us less trusting of future
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me.” (John 14:6) We all seek the truth. Whether we are Christian or not, gay or not, believers or not, we all want