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April 2014

April 20, 2014

LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH: An Easter Meditation

LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH An Easter Meditation James Ishmael Ford Text Set me...

April 19, 2014

Good Friday

April 18, 2014

A SONG OF INTERDEPENDENCE: A Celebration of Communion for Unitarian Universalist Congregations

A SONG OF INTERDEPENDENCE A Celebration of Communion for Unitarian Universalists Preface For nearly three...

April 16, 2014

And Now Comes Spike

Terence Alan Milligan, better known to many as Spike, was born on this day in...

April 15, 2014

Wishing all a Blessed Fordicidia!

No, this is not a holiday I invented for me... Among the ancient Romans, as...

April 14, 2014

The Great Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on this day in 1891

April 13, 2014

SHAKING OFF OUR CHAINS: A Passover Sermon

SHAKING OFF OUR CHAINS A Passover Sermon James Ishmael Ford 13 April 2014 First Unitarian...

April 12, 2014

My Physiology of Faith

Thank you for asking. I claim, with a tip of the hat to Erasmus, a...

April 11, 2014

Happy B’Day, Guitar Junior!

Today is Luther Johnson's birthday. Everyone should listen to some blues in his honor...

April 08, 2014

Happy birthday, Sid!

Among followers of the Mahayana, the Great Way school of Buddhism, of which the Zen...

April 05, 2014

Mr Hobbes Takes the Stage

Thomas Hobbes was born on this day in 1588. Among other things he addressed questions...

April 03, 2014

The Reverend Mr Theodore Parker Goes on Trial

It was on this day in 1855 that Theodore Parker, Unitarian Transcendentalist minister was put...

April 01, 2014

Guitar Boogie

Today is the feast of fools. It is also Arthur Smith's birthday. A fool for...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Recalling John Donne, If Briefly

John Donne died on this day in 1631. Donne was variously a lawyer, member of...

March 30, 2014

FALLEN AMONG THIEVES: A Meditation on the Parable of the Good Samaritan

FALLEN AMONG THIEVES A Meditation on the Parable of the Good Samaritan James Ishmael Ford...

March 27, 2014

Nothing Holy, Everything Holy

I had a recent brief and light exchange of notes on Facebook with someone about...

March 26, 2014

Zoroaster & the Dawning of Monotheism

By some traditions today is the birthday of the prophet Zoroaster. Zoroaster is often considered...

March 25, 2014

The True Story of the Good Thief

The Western church celebrates today as the feast of St Dismas, the name that has...

March 25, 2014

The Necessity of Atheism

It was on this day in 1811 that Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford...

March 24, 2014

Men Esteem Truth Remote

"Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system, behind the farthest star, before...

March 23, 2014

LOVE YOUR MOTHER: A Meditation on Life & Death, Intoxication, Sobering Up, & Saving the World

LOVE YOUR MOTHER A Meditation on Life & Death, Intoxication, Sobering Up, and Saving the...

March 21, 2014

Standing Here and Singing Before the Lord of Song

Another cover of Leonard Cohen's mystic treatise, this one by Hannah Trigwell...

March 21, 2014

Mr Cranmer’s Feast

On this day in 1556, Thomas Cranmer, onetime henchman to Henry VIII, principal editor of...

March 19, 2014

19 March 1918: A Day of Infamy

On this day in 1918, a gathering of drunkards, petty criminals and other forms of...

March 18, 2014

Happy birthday, Jan! Lucky me…

Today is my spouse Jan Seymour-Ford's sixty-third birthday. In June we'll have been married thirty-three...

March 17, 2014

The Seventeenth of March

Big day, today... I know many are awash in green beer, one of the more...

March 13, 2014

Why What Goes Around Doesn’t Always Come Around, and Maybe Something Better

Karma is one of those words that have launched into our English language with a...

March 12, 2014

Girl Guides Begin

In 1910 the Girl Guides were established in the United Kingdom by Robert Baden-Powell. (A...

March 11, 2014

The Monarch Vetoes

Turns out that on this day in 1702 Queen Anne vetoed, or, as the jargon...

March 09, 2014

Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Dreaming the Cosmos

I, for one, am looking forward to Neil deGrasse Tyson's new series Cosmos, inspired by...