http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog Religion and spirituality from a Unitarian Universalist perspective Sun, 24 May 2009 22:38:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Even though it's been months since my last post, I've been reluctant to write this: Looking for Faith is on hiatus. The conversations that I've had here and on other Unitarian Universalist blogs have been such an important part of my spiritual life that it's hard to say even a ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2009/finding-god-in-new-places My Unitarian Universalist congregation (the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts) has the somewhat dubious distinction of being the church that hosted Anne Hutchinson's civil trial in 1637, in which she was sentenced to expulsion from Massachusetts. In American Jezebel, Eve LaPlante uses the transcript of this trial to tell the story ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2009/anne-hutchinson-and-unitarian-universalism In these days filled with returning light, may we be blessed with a renewed capacity for love, generosity, and hope. From year to year, the winter holiday season and its meaning shifts for me. Some of my most moving holiday season memories are of a winter solstice service at the First ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/happy-holidays From Rev. William Sinkford, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/holiday-letter-from-uua-president Usually it takes fifteen minutes to vote in Cambridge, Massachusetts; this year it was an hour. The line at my polling place stretched out the back door of City Hall, around the corner, and down to the video store. A diverse group of Cambridge residents stood waiting on this unseasonably warm ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/what-is-possible Dispatches from the Religious Left, edited by Frederick Clarkson, features essays from a wide range of religious leaders and thinkers. One of these essays is co-authored by my husband, Shai Sachs, and me. We give a practical introduction to using new media and explain how the Religious Left may find ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/the-outlines-of-a-religious-left The Connecticut Supreme Court decided yesterday in favor of marriage equality! Here's the story from the New York Times: A sharply divided Connecticut Supreme Court struck down the state’s civil union law on Friday and ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Connecticut thus joins Massachusetts and California ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/marriage-equality-in-connecticut As I attended my congregation's new minister installation service earlier today, a reading of Luke caught my attention: ‘If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you hope to ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/do-not-judge-and-you-will-not-be-judged In her book One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, Rebecca Mead examines the wedding industry and argues that it has exploited the vacuum of meaning around contemporary American weddings. With gender dynamics changing and religious institutions decreasing in influence, American weddings have taken on a plethora of ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/why-have-a-wedding Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of 9/11, a time for remembering the lives lost on that day and for reflecting on the course that our country has run since then. This year's 9/11 falls at a time of heightened political anxiety, with the presidential elections fast approaching. For many Americans, myself ... http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2008/seven-years-later