Dear Friends, At our annual meeting I began my report with the famous opening line from Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness…”
Compassion – the common ingredient in all religion – September 25, 2011
Last week we talked about the religious discussion following 9/11 as presented in the thoughtful and provocative documentary on PBS’s Frontline which they called ‘Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero.’ Many of those who were quoted were clergy and were quite revealing…sort of looking in the mirror. The first comment was made by a rabbi […]
The Gods We Worship – September 18, 2011
What’s your idea of God? What do you believe about God? How has your belief changed during the course of your life so far? Was there an incident that caused a dramatic change? There is a Talmudic story that one day in Auschwitz, a group of Jews put God on trial. They charged him with […]
Dear Friends – September 12, 2011
Dear Friends, As I read, listened, and watched editorials and essays, television programs and reviews of 9/11, I realized that it is not so much about what happened on that fateful September morning, but what is happening –what started on that day ten years ago and has continued for a decade, so far.
Reflections on 9/11 – Homecoming 2011, September 11, 2011
May Sarton, “Of Grief“ There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie, Endured, never expended. There are old griefs so proud They never speak a word; They never can be mended. And these nourish the will And keep it […]
Dear Friends – August 28, 2011
Dear Friends, We visited with Carlyn while she was at the summer music session at the Bamff Center. We got to hear and see her play in two concerts. In one of them she was principal cellist for a Brahms symphony.
Dear Friends – July 18, 2011
Dear Friends, One of the highlights of this year’s General Assembly in Charlotte, NC was the Ware lecture by the well-known and highly regarded religious historian Karen Armstrong.
“The Religious Impulse” – Chautauqua July 10, 2011
Opening Words from UU minister Ralph Helverson: Deep in ourselves resides the religious impulse.Out of the passions of our clay it rises.We have religion when we stop deluding ourselves that we are self-sufficient, self-sustaining or self-derived. We have religion when we hold some hope beyond the present, some self-respect beyond our failures. We have religion when […]
Dear Friends – June 20, 2011
Dear Friends, Carlyn’s father, Bruce, was swimming at a friend’s summer-home pond in Worcester, MA when somethinghappened – we don’t know exactly what – to cause him to go under. A young man in a kayak paddled to himand dove in to rescue him – on his second try he pulled Bruce up, and with […]
The Challenges of 2011 Commencement Speakers – June 12, 2011
At our high school graduation ceremony I remember thinking it was strange to refer to the event as ‘commencement exercises.’ I thought, “But this ceremony marks ‘the end’ of high school, and for the majority of the graduating class of Wilmington High, (all 73 of us in the class of ’58), it’s the end of […]
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