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2020-02-06T09:26:15-05:00

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The Love of Wisdom & the Wisdom of Love

Last updated on: February 6, 2020 at 9:26 am By Carl Gregg

For the Ordination of Scot Hull as a Unitarian Universalist Minister Traditional Reading (Proverbs 3:13-18): 13 Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, 14 for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. 17 Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths... Read more

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2020-01-09T09:19:19-05:00

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Marie Kondo, Animism, & Changing Your Life

Last updated on: January 9, 2020 at 9:19 am By Carl Gregg

Happy New Year! And happy new decade! For anyone wondering, yes I’m aware that since there was no “Year Zero,” technically the new decade doesn’t start until 2021. But in this case I am on the side of our cultural tendency to think in terms of the ‘90s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. And what a difference a decade can make. Perhaps the past ten years have been fairly stable for you; there’s nothing wrong with that. But for many... Read more

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2019-12-28T19:32:11-05:00

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What’s Holding Us Back & How Do We Go from Here?

Last updated on: November 20, 2019 at 8:41 pm By Carl Gregg

In early August, the news spread around the world that Toni Morrison (1931-2019) had died. She was eighty-eight years old. To name only a few of her pathbreaking accomplishments, in 1988, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved, arguably her masterpiece. The next year, she joined the faculty at Princeton University, where she taught for more than twenty-five years. And in 1993, she became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her obituary in... Read more

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2019-11-12T18:00:04-05:00

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How Change Happens: Why do some social movements succeed & others fail?

Last updated on: November 12, 2019 at 6:00 pm By Carl Gregg

What does (and doesn’t) work in building the better world we dream about? Why do some movements for social change succeed while others fizzle or even fail? For considering these questions, one of the most helpful resources I have found recently is the book How Change Happens by Leslie Crutchfield. She is the executive director of Georgetown University’s Global Social Enterprise Initiative. She and her team have researched some of the major recent movements for social change in the United States... Read more

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2019-11-20T20:34:54-05:00

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How Democracies Die & An Education in Hope

Last updated on: November 20, 2019 at 8:34 pm By Carl Gregg

On Sunday, we passed the mark of being one year away from the next U.S. presidential election, which will be held on November 3, 2020. In reflecting on the current state of our body politic, one of the most helpful resources I have found is Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s powerful and accessible book, published last year with the sobering title of How Democracies Die. Both authors are professors of government at Harvard University. For most of their careers, they have... Read more

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2019-12-23T09:48:04-05:00

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Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter for Such a Time as This

Last updated on: December 23, 2019 at 9:48 am By Carl Gregg

If you were enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, one of your required courses would be Defense Against the Dark Arts. The Hogwarts Professor Severus Snape said of this subject: The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck is severed, sprouts a head even fiercer and cleverer than before. You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible…. Your defenses must therefore be as... Read more

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2019-10-24T10:34:27-04:00

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Earthrise, Big History, & Deep Time

Last updated on: October 24, 2019 at 10:34 am By Carl Gregg

I. Big History The English writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946) is best remembered for his science fiction novels—The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Wells was also a futurist, and his books “foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web.” In response to the horrors of the first World War, Wells similarly attempted to peer... Read more

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2019-10-14T12:31:20-04:00

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Scientific Knowledge, & the Teachings of Plants

Last updated on: October 14, 2019 at 12:31 pm By Carl Gregg

Joy Harjo is our current United States Poet Laureate, and the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to hold the position. Harjo began writing in the early 1970s as a college student and in the decades since has published eight books of poetry, a memoir and two books for young audiences. Her latest collection, titled An American Sunrise, was published this year. Harjo has said that, “My poems are about confronting the kind of society that would diminish Native... Read more

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