Summer 2018 – From the Minister
In her extraordinary and prescient sci-fi novels, The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler wrote about a beautiful, dystopian word, like and yet unlike our own, and set in what was, at the time, the not-toodistant future: the early decades of the 21st century. Writing more than 30 years ago, Butler saw with eerie clarity what for her was not far-fetched to imagine, the rise of a boorish tyrant in the midst of American uncertainty, numbing the people with platitudes and terrifying them with reckless, ego-laced, crude, cruelty. One of the books’ most intriguing...
Read MoreShe/He/They/We (05-20-18 Sermon)
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Read MoreLife’s Longing for Itself (05-13-18 Sermon)
There are almost never guarantees, that the cause will be won, the war averted, that the child will grow up happy and healthy and perfectly safe, or the deliberate smiles that you bring to your co-workers and strangers in stores and in the skyway and the street will ever be noticed, much less have effect. So much in this life is out of our hands, and you do it anyway, and try to do it carefully, reliably, honorably, reverently, and well, which I guess is the trademark of people of faith. We believe all this accumulates. -Rev. Victoria Safford, “Life’s Longing for...
Read MoreHome Economics (05-06-18 Sermon)
I believe the blood in our veins is unanimous, like the rain from which it derives, and we all bear a common name and that name is Beloved. That name is Worthy. -Rev. Victoria Safford, “Home Economics” Download 05-06-18-sermon pdf https://whitebearunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/05-06-18-audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS
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