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What Keeps Time?
What keeps time? Heartbeats steps a circle, pulled through its circumference a jar, beneath some papers, in a cupboard a tick a dinosaur, reshaped and reappraised rings on a tree waves, microwaves, and train goodbyes the folded hands of a … Continue reading
Poem by John Aikin, M.D.
Your Monday Blessing today comes from the pen of John Aikin, M.D. (1747 – 1822) the subject of this year’s Warrington Academy Service at Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel. This is from his “Epistle to the Rev. W Enfield, Ll. D.” … Continue reading
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Tagged history, John Aikin, poetry, Warrington Academy
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What is the role of religious institutions in justice? A dialogue
Dear friends, I stumbled across an old paper I wrote about congregations and justice. It’s an imagined dialogue between four giants of Unitarianism and Universalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Clarence Skinner, Olympia Brown and Clarence Skinner. I apologize for the “in … Continue reading
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Tagged congregations, history, justice, Unitarian, Universalist, UU
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Sermon: “Ghosts”
Thanks to Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community for hosting me. Here’s the text of the sermon: It was after the waves of pirates and princesses, after the ninjas wearing bathrobes and plastic swords, after the cute little pumpkin being pushed … Continue reading
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Tagged community, ghosts, Halloween, history, James Dean, living a good life, memory, neighbor, trick or treat, Unitarian Universalism
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Hope sermon (text)
“Hope: The Future of the World” Living a Visionary Life Sermon Series Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon The First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hunterdon County 6/1/2014 It was a beautiful beginning. The star of stars burst into being, the world exploded into … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bang, history, hope, living a good life, vision
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Blessing of the Animals Sermon (text)
“The Blessing of the Animals” Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon The First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hunterdon County May 25, 2014 I want to begin with what has to one of the most obvious statement of faith anyone has ever made: I … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, dogs, history, living a good life, love, theology
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Passover poem
Somewhere back in the generations of your family, someone ran away: from the guns of an army, from an abusive marriage, from the whips of Pharoah, from a poor town with nothing, from a nameless dread, from the everyday lies … Continue reading
“All Our Relations” sermon
“All Our Relations” Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon Sermon delivered at the … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, ecology, history, poverty, relationship, right relationship, Unitarian Universalism
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Gratitude Sermon
“Grounded in Gratitude” Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hunterdon County November 24, 2013 To recap: we are on a spinning ball, in the middle of space, surrounded by fiery stars and humongous rocks and millions of … Continue reading
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Tagged gratitude, Hanukkah, history, living a good life, Thanksgiving, Unitarian Universalism, vision
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