"Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout"

An Eclectic Journal of Opinion, Poetry, and General Bloviating


Figure Sledding: The New Olympic Sport - iBeth
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Amelia invented a new Olympic sport at school. I'd watch it.

Tonight on the LIFETIME Channel, A Heartwarming Story of One’s Woman’s Triumph Over Co
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She was Afraid of Lipstick, Dear Readers.
She was.
She wanted to wear some lipstick, but she ventured into the cosmetics section of her local pharmacy and hyperventilated when she saw the array of ...

What God and A Few Missional Minded (UU Christians) Can Do - Planting God Communities
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Can you get five people, more or less, together to change the world? Here is a current status update on what can result. Yours will look different. But you can do it. Let me just say faith is so mu...

Avoiding the plague - Yet Another Unitarian Universalist
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Sometime you get absorbed by your job. This is not necessarily bad: jobs are reality, too. But the pressures of working in an office often distract me from their reality: I solve a problem, I answe...

More bad religious jokes - it's all one thing
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More bad religious jokes � Yet Another Unitarian Universalist

Ah, another bit I needed to keep making sense of it all: - ministrare
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From nakedpastor:
One of the greatest enemies of the church is fantasy.
Just like fantasy is one of the greatest enemies of a marriage.
Dissatisfied with reality, we create a fantasy of what we des...

Glenn Beck is coming after ME now - fortboise.org
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Will this man stop at NOTHING?! This CNNBC news report has the details from the broadcast of Le Bebe-Homme Pleurant. (Sorry about the volume too loud and the lame controls on the Flash... this ...

Rehabilitating Beauty - Liberating Wings
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Today I travel to the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association Annual Symposium in Bellevue, Washington. It has been a long time since I have worked in avian rehabilitation. As an avian veterin...

Are You Out of Control? - Beyond Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
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In recent days, an email list serve for NVC (compassionate communication) practitioners interested in brain functioning has been discussing the limits of NVC। For instance, when the brain is overwh...

A Celebration of Spring - Under the Ancient Oaks
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If you're in the DFW area, come out to our Celebration of Spring next Saturday evening. The circles I lead tend to be serious and introspective - this one is going to be light and fun. Cynthia is b...

Announcing April 20th webinar with Michael Durall - The UU Growth Blog
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Friends,  I just confirmed this webinar with Michael Durall.  Seats are limited – just over 20 available.  Register ASAP if you want to join us.   – Peter
The Almost Church Revitalized – A conversa...

Teen Drama - Inner Light, Radiant Life
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Here is a cute teen drama video re-made by the University of Rochester YellowJackets, an all male a-cappella group, to accompany their live performance of Taylor Swift's song "You Belong With Me." ...

Census? What Can I Win? - Harrumph!
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Polygamy, armed drug dealers and ignorami ahead and all around marked the follow-up census I took. I went in as a hippie sort earning some eating and drinking money, but quickly found I was straigh...

Rev Cyn on Catholic Communion - Pfarrer Streccius
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This, Third: Communion. And, again, I wonder at those who choose to stay in a religion that has this attitude, but that aside... Now, I don't know the ins and outs of the Catholic's policies and ...

What Are We Not Noticing? - The Spirit/Work Connection
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A funny thing happened to me recently. As February turned to March and it seemed noticeably brighter, I had this great urge for a change in my life. The fastest thing I could think of was to shave...

Spring - Everyday Unitarian
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In light of today's beautiful weather and promise of Spring:"I saw an act of faith today.A man was on his knees, not in a pew in a church,but in the garden, planting seeds."-Author Unknown

I'm Asking You To Do This..... - AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM
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This is it.  Here is what I am asking you to do, and that is to question the belief that you are a separate entity who has destiny and free will, that you began at some time in the past, that you w...

Suffering for one’s art - Sermons in Stones
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I’m making a collage involving an image of shed skin, having been captivated by a passage in a book on reptiles that said most “higher land animals” shed their skin, but whereas mammals like us do ...

Inrefaith Community Shelter Project - Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe
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THE INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER PROJECT     Our first week for volunteering to provide dinners and check-in services at the Interfaith Community Shelter is coming up soon - the week of March 21 th...

Ice Cream and Social Action - Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe
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"Spring Into Action" with our Coming of Age youth and their mentors on Sunday, March 21 and help raise funds for animal rescue in Haiti at the ice cream social following the 11:00 service. Social a...

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