First Parish has had two ministers for 10 years. The SAME two ministers, in fact. The previous Parish Minister retired two years ago and toward the end of Summer 2007, the Associate Minister took a position elsewhere. So within one year of having had the same ministers for 10 years, the church's entire ministerial team has turned over and we ( Read more... )

Our friend Jane is here for a long weekend. Living in the suburbs, where there are no sidewalks, one takes one's life in one's hands to "walk down to the corner". So, she hadn't done lots of walking recently. Until this weekend ( Read more... )

Despite the list of stressors I posted recently, this has been a very low-stress Christmas for me. Yay ( Read more... )

About a week ago, R, a member of our extended family, asked the whether we thought he should feel obligated to take to court an insurance company that had not paid for services at a critical time, or whether it was OK to accept a settlement ( Read more... )

An interesting comment thread on Dan4th's differenceblog article "Do men have a gender?" got me thinking back ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for photos to upload to Flickr for Pepper, who is in California for a week. trapezebear has gone off to rehearse for the evening.

I'm slightly bored, at the moment. Nothing I can't fix by writing this silly post to LJ! :)

I just signed a petition which starts, "1.5 million people have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Almost one-third of them will have a serious mental health problem - like depression, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. That’s why I’m supporting [the] “This is For the Soldiers” campaign to make sure the mental health needs of our troops are a top ( Read more... )

I attended General Assembly 2007 Event 1030 Opening Ceremony (videoThe Banner Parade is always inspiring, each banner representing a UU congregation or organization. It goes on and on, the GA House Band playing reggae rock while the 6000+ attendees clap and cheer for the ( Read more... )

Well, this has certainly been an interesting GA, far less upsetting to me than the last three. I am finally reaching the place of love and forgiveness from which I can speak without animosity to the way that Bisexual Erasure, for instance, still operates in the UUA at the highest levels ( Read more... )

The history of the relationship between the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Canadian Unitarian Counsel / Conseil Unitarien du Canada (CUC) has been friendly but somewhat tumultuous, with the official relationship agreement changing more and more frequently over the last 40 years.

The UUA Board of Trustees reached a turning point in this ( Read more... )