December 2011
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I...
Imagine a camel with a big red bow. #UU
Those Lexus ads are so romantic and heart-warming: pretty people expressing their love with a surprise gift of a brand new car with a big red bow on top. In previous years, I found them slightly irritating. This year, given the pain in world, they strike me as unfeeling and insensitive. Here’s my solution, inspired by yesterday’s sermon by our minister, Liz Lerner-Maclay. She is...
Can personal peace exist without universal peace?
That’s the question Rev. Liz Lerner Maclay is asking this morning in her sermon. She means it as a real question, one for which she does not yet have an answer. She points out teachings from variety of spiritual traditions that provide complicated answers. Yes and no. Emphatically yes and also equally emphatically no.
For me, my fleeting experiences of peace are what drive me to seek peace...
