I live in Western Maryland, which means that September often still feels like summer for us. Temperatures in the 90s aren’t unusual. What generally changes first is the early mornings and late evenings. We start being able to open the windows overnight to cool off our homes. There’s a crispness to the air that promises…
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For the last twenty or so years, I’ve had the great privilege of teaching metaphysics and Pagan spirituality up and down the coast. I’m really lucky in that I’ve somehow turned thinking too much and then telling people about the results of my ruminations into something resembling a career. When you think too much, particularly…
This sermon was offered at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick on Sunday, July 10th, after my the ceremony that made me a Commissioned Lay Minister. I remember the moment it happened. The exact moment I accepted my call to service. I was just a kid – nine or ten years old. There was…
Within the world of agriculture, there is a vital part of crop growing known as letting land “lie fallow.” To fallow a piece of earth is to leave it deliberately unsown – to let it rest. This time of rest allows more fertility to gather in the soil, guaranteeing a better crop later. It is…