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The brutal murder of George Floyd triggered not only a massive outcry for an end to police brutality, but also a worldwide call to address systemic racism and the countless injustices it spawns. It also re-animated the campaign in the U.S. to remove from public spaces the monuments to military and political leaders of the … Continue reading Taking ‘Em Down…for Good
Abraham Lincoln’s death was the result of his efforts on behalf of voting rights for African-Americans. He was killed by a man who called America “a white man’s country.” The final straw was when Lincoln suggested in his last public speech that some African-Americans be allowed to vote. Because voting rights are a fragile thing, we need to recognize the violence that has met people who have stood and died for African-American voting rights, such as Medgar Evers, Octavius Catto, and Abraham Lincoln, and vow to continue the struggle.
Have you ever turned up the car radio and sung your heart out while cruising down the road? Have you watched young children dance, sway, clap and sing, asking for a song to be played over and over again? Has music accompanied some of your most joyful moments in life—Births? Falling in love? Celebrations? Simple happy days? Our lives … Continue reading Life’s Joyful Moments and Our Joyful Noise
Eric Blair, a.k.a. George Orwell, lived only 46 years, dying of tuberculosis in 1950. He never went to university or had a steady publisher of his writing and lived most of his life in poverty. Yet because of his overdeveloped sense of honesty and decency he wrote works that still resonate today. As Christopher Hitchens has written, Orwell unmasked the folly and danger of three major evils of the 20th Century: colonialism, fascism, and Stalinism. His work still stands as a warning against those who would rob individuals of their worth and dignity. Join us as we discuss how Orwell accomplished all this and what it means for our UU principles.
Last year, in Kentucky, a $100 million theme park entitled “Ark Encounter” opened featuring a “life-sized” Ark with animatronic dinosaurs and violent and disturbing images of people dying in a supposed worldwide flood 4,200 years ago. According to Gallup, roughly half of Americans believe that the earth is just 6,000 years old and that evolution is false. These beliefs highlight the formidable challenge to scientific inquiry and science education in our country. These beliefs also influence how we collectively deal with environmental issues affecting our survival. How do we as a faith community stand up for science and education?
Most of the Western World is in a perpetual state of waiting, as its three major religions incorporate a belief in either the coming of a messiah or in a final judgment which ends the current world and resolves all problems through divine intervention. Unfortunately, this outlook substitutes for wisdom and problem solving in the here and now. It also escalates armed conflict through misuse of ancient “apocalyptic” texts. Better and perhaps necessary for our species’ survival is to focus on solving our problems now rather than waiting for some presumed divine intervention.
Abraham Lincoln quoted Jesus of Nazareth often, focusing on what scholars claimed were actual words of the historical Jesus rather than on theological embellishments by later New Testament writers. As UU and renowned author, Kurt Vonnegut, once said, “But, I say with all my American ancestors, ‘If what Jesus said was good and so much … Continue reading Lincoln’s Christianity
