In the early 1980s, we all lived under the pale of mutual nuclear destruction. Are you, dear reader, old enough to remember? I was in high school then and I took this very personally. While others were out partying, or working, I was reading Jonathan Schell’s Fate of the Earth. In general my parents could …
(Part I can be found here.) (2/26/2020: edited for clarity, as well as to remove some able-ist language) We long for a clear, identifiable fix. Something that we can advocate for – it might not come tomorrow or next week, but we can name it now (like body cameras on police officers, like grand juries …
There are three stories that describe this point in the earth’s narrative: Business as Usual; the Great Unraveling; and the Great Turning. Business as Usual is a familiar paradigm. This story values growth over all other things. But only particular kinds of growth. Not growth in wisdom. Or health. Or happiness. But growth in terms …
Village Church, Cummington, MA ~ June 2, 2013 Karen G. Johnston, Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry READING #1 “Causes and effects assume history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person …
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Village Church, Cummington, MA May 19, 2013 Karen G. Johnston Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry Readings A Stone Jug A bulldozer digging a pond on my mother’s family’s land unearths two stoneware jugs buried four feet in the ground, one broken and one intact. Who put them there? When? Why? We suppose, but can’t …