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Tag Archives: trauma
Between Hope & Fear: A Sermon During a Hellish Election Cycle (sermon)
delivered at The Unitarian Society This sermon was preceded by a reading of Marge Piercy’s For Strong Women. Let’s be clear from the start. That was not locker room talk. It was not just banter among the guys, somehow normal … Continue reading
That Estranged Crazy Uncle: Wondering Why He’s Crazy
Part 3 Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 can be found here. Given what he wrote in his revelation, I am pretty sure that John of Patmos and I would not be besties. I would not like the … Continue reading
On Kindness After Tragedy: This Can Still Happen Anywhere
I know there is talk about how, after 9/11, there was a change in this country. Or at least in NYC. That people were nice to each other, looked after each other, cared for strangers, in ways that had not … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 principles, 9/11, discontinuity, First Writing Since, Gate A-4, Islamophobia, Naomi Shihab Nye, palpable kindness, quantum spirituality, response to violence, rupture, say something, Seven principles, Suheir Hammad, trauma, Unitarian Universalism, violence
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