A great night.  Jennifer Cutting's usual mix of humor, folk song, antiquarian curiosities and pagan themed compositions all were present.  Lisa Moscatiello's stunning low alto soared in both English and French.  Steven Wynick's Greenman and parts of Song of Solstice had a thundering ye olde England Drive.  And Andrew Dodd, Scottish fiddler ( Read more... )

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Our church is having a "Quiet Day."  It was instituted under the leadership of our former MRE Ellen Jennings who moved on to become a parish minister at a UCC church in DC.  The idea is to have a number of chill activities for folks to participate in and leave more centered and relaxed.

In a fit of madness, I offered to do a beginning energy work ( Read more... )

Two years ago, it was deep snow that caused a cancellation of my sermon.  Last year it was an administrative meltdown.  In spite of being thoroughly unhappy about both events, I am now grateful.  I completely rewrote the sermon (now retitled as Reenchanting the Land) and refocused on the need to provide the congregation with some Ways to approach ( Read more... )

Two years ago, my imbolg sermon for the our church was snowed out.  Last year it was descheduled due to an administrative snafu.  Looking at it this year, I'm glad I have another crack at it for it is not where I currently am in my spiritual life.  I knew roughly want I wanted to do, but had no clear way of ending it for a mixed audience with ( Read more... )

Did you hear the one about the druid, shamam and witch going off to a bar to plan a Summer Solstice ritual?  Stay tuned.

I think I'll be going to the UU General Assembly this year. It's not horribly far and I've never been before.  Looking forward to meeting some folks who I've only ever corresponded with.

After a lot of negotiating dates with two teachers, we found that tyrtle could make a date in early December for Shamanism for UUs.  I had met tyrtle two years ago at the Sacred Space Conference right after she retired from the Feds and was starting her healing and workshop business full time.  I liked her high energy right away but did not see her ( Read more... )

Gentle readers.  My proposal to develop a Reenchanting the Land curriculum for our church in support of the UU Green Sanctuary Program was accepted.  It is based on the idea that in order to develop a spiritual attachment to Land, you first have to experience the Land.  The focus is local with a number of different available experiences that have ( Read more... )

Anyone who is UU knows that we are a mostly white, mostly over-educated group, prone to over analysis.  The UUA has been pressing us to become more multi-racial and multi-cultural which is great except all the instructions seem to be written in some code.  It always seems to me to be baffling.  The latest was the text of a speech given by Paul ( Read more... )