Location: Lingonberry “Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity … Continue reading Accessing Spirituality
As Unitarian Universalists, ours is a way that says there is no One Way – not for us, anyway. For us there is no one, sure-fire, infallibly correct, committed path to Beloved Community or Enlightenment. Lots of folks will have no qualms telling us that there is only one, sure-fire, correct path to Salvation – … Continue reading The Fire of Commitment: Religious Orthodoxy and Humanism Contrasted.
Location: Lingonberry “At 32 and remarried, I discovered Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason in the Parma, Ohio, public library. A self-education in philosophy, via those library stacks, led me to jettison my belief in all things which included ‘imaginary friends’ and to eventually embrace atheism as a life-stance. This change enabled me to live with … Continue reading Humanism, an introduction – Being good without gods
