When the Canoe Overturns - October 16, 2016
on October 16th, 2016
Every year in June, the church I served in Maine goes canoeing for a daydown the Saco River. I came to love this trip and miss it every spring, but I didn’talways look forward to it with pleasure. In the pictures taken in my first year inSaco, I’m easy to pick out. I’m the one in the life jacket.Seeing me so apprehensive, my congregation assumed I couldn’t swim.But in fact I swim just fine and I l... Read More
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Who Tells the Story? - October 2, 2016
on October 2nd, 2016
Why am I telling you all this about a long-ago king of a far-off land? What do his life and possible crimes have to do with ours? As we think about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when the books of life lie open and deeds of goodness and wrong-doing recorded, when people think about their lives and the stories they want to leave behind, and as we do all that in the setting of this election yea... Read More
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October 2016 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on September 29th, 2016
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Dredging Up Soil from the Bed of Mystery - September 25, 2016
on September 25th, 2016
“Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.” That is the 7th principle in the covenant of the Unitarian Universalist Association, of which our congregation is a member church. “The interdependent web of all existence.” That phrase is used a lot in our congregations to describe our understanding of the deep connection which ties all life together. In a few words... Read More
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Water Communion Celebration 2016
on September 11th, 2016
On September 11, 2016 we celebrated water communion in a different way: instead of bringing water to share, the congregation was offered water to drink as a symbol of the ways their lives are watered at First Parish. Find the liturgy and Pamela Barz's sermon A Watered Garden here:... Read More
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September 2016 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on September 8th, 2016
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Summer 2016 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on June 22nd, 2016
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June 2016 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on June 1st, 2016
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We Are Each Other's Harvest - May 1, 2016
on May 1st, 2016
In this convergence of May Day, Passover, and Ascension Day we have stories of liberation from the bonds of winter, from the bonds of slavery, and from the bonds of debt. But what do those stories say to us today? How do they help us deal with our society’s current problems with inequities of race, gender, income, and power? Reach the whole sermon here:... Read More
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May 2016 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on April 28th, 2016
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Standing with Spine Tingling by Brian Sutton - April 17, 2016
on April 17th, 2016
Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part is the seventh principle, which we hopefully keep in mind more than just on Earth Day. It's the only principle with a metaphor - the web. The other principles are all abstract, incredibly important humanistic words, but hard to draw in Pictionary; words like acceptance, dignity, encouragement, justice, peace, truth, meanin... Read More
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April 2016 Sloop's Log Newsletter
on March 31st, 2016
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