We’re all table dancers!
Continue reading →Bob Eddy
I am a retired Unitarian Universalist minister who wishes to make available for those interested sermons, memorial services, editorials etc. Please credit if you use or forward with Copyright 2013 by Rev. Robert M. Eddy, Minister Emeritus, Unitarian Universalist Church of Pensacola, FL
The Last Pagan: Julian the Apostate and the Death of the Ancient World. “Anyone thinking that the fourth-century BCE was a long time ago is both right and wrong. Right in that 1,700 years is a long time in human history, but wrong in that certain religious and cultural controversies of that era have loud echoes in our own.”
Continue reading →MEMORIAL SERVICE REQUEST FORM
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FORMAT
THIS IS A FORM YOU CAN USE TO HELP ME PLAN A MEMORIAL SERVICE BOR YOUR FRIEND, PARTNER, OR FAMILY MEMBER
PLEASE NOTE :
AS WITH ALL CEREMONIES I FACILITATE,
MEMORIAL SERVICES CAN BE MODIFIED TO FIT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES.
Continue reading →A SAMPLE CHILD NAMING CEREMONY
CONFESSIONS OF A RECOVERING ALTRUIST
If we must look to the past, let us look to the clear eyed Epicurus who first set human feet on the path away from fearful reliance on miracle, mystery and authority. Let us seek. as he did, harmlessness, happiness and helpfulness. Let us, like him, aspire to civility, tranquility, delight. And let us forswear forever the temptation to holiness which has produced such disaster in the past.
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THE FAMILY by Jeff Sharlett
Sub title is “The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.
For a good review by another reader go to:
http://historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2010/02/different-kind-of-christian.html
Continue reading →GAMES PEOPLE PLAY WHILE WAITING FOR GODOT
I must confess I find many of the ideas that are popular among younger UU’s literally in credible — unbelievable. But that is not what is important — and this is the whole point of this sermon. What is important is not whether a belief is true. What is important is what that belief does to a person. What is important is what that belief encourages, empowers, makes real in the life of the community to which that person belongs.
Continue reading →COSMIC UNIVERSALISM
If your standard of truth is a book: the bible or the Koran – then there’s no resolution. But if you believe that the search for ever more consistent explanations and ever better predictive formulations is the best human minds can do then there is plenty of room for civil discussion.
For myself there is no way to derive ethics from cosmology. I call myself a Humanist because to me there is nothing more important than being humane; refusing always to treat persons as things; trying always to be kinder and more effectively compassionate where you live. Loving your neighbor – meeting the needs of the person left suffering in your path – be he of your tribe or not.
THE PROPER USE OF SPIRITUAL METAPHORS
There are many metaphors used to describe the inner life: that which, these days is being called “spirituality.” One that I’m not going to discuss this morning is the metaphor of the craft. I’m sure you’ve all heard of the latest UU manual using this metaphor. It’s about Harry Potter and his life in the Hogwart School of Sorcery. Oh, you didn’t know that the author of the Harry Potter books is a UU? She’s not? If not, why is her latest book a variation on our flaming chalice – “The Fiery Goblet?”
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