Last Friday I drove to Asheville with some Piedmont UU Church friends to visit a retired UU minister, the Rev. Clark Olsen, who had a traumatic experience in Selma in 1965. I got to know Clark in the 1970s in connection with him serving as my future wife’s internship supervisor at his church in Morristown, […]
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From Your Interim Minister: Another Teach-In? Are You Kidding Me?
I am providing space in the preaching schedule for another Teach-In, and I am participating in at least the planning of all of them. This is because I believe there is little we can do that is more important for the health of our country, our community, and our church, than making an honest effort […]
From Your Interim Minister
The mail-lady delivered to me a booklet yesterday titled Spiritual Wisdom from New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, CA. ‘Harbinger’ is a word you don’t see every day. It means a person or thing that announces the approach of something else. So I opened the seals of the little booklet to find out what is approaching, and […]
From Your Interim Minister
Almost 50 years ago, I had an encounter with a strange example of triangulation. Triangulation is the use of a third party to achieve an end indirectly. In its crudest form, it involves getting someone to somehow do your dirty work for you. It can be quite a bit more subtle than that. My strange […]
From Your Interim Minister
The work to strengthen our financial position continues at what I observe to be a heightened energy level. Most of the recommendations of the financial procedures audit of our systems have been instituted. (Thank you for paying for that, anonymous donor.) There is zero evidence of misconduct. There is some evidence of not having paid […]
From Your Interim Minister
Something good is going on in this country right now. What’s going on is the attempt on the part of an increasing number of those who did not vote for Donald Trump to understand those who did. Some of our wiser leaders are telling us to avoid thinking of the Trump voters as ‘deplorables,’ the […]
From Your Interim Minister
As of this writing I am nearing the end of my first month as your Interim Minister. I have met quite a few of you already, and will meet more of you in the Salisbury Gathering on Feb. 5. I am impressed by your friendliness and generosity. I detect no systemic dysfunction and hope I […]
