The Seven Principles in Word and WorshipUnitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 2017 M05 30 - 124 páginas The Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism continue to be plumbed for meaning, depth and inspiration. This elegant volume presents fresh perspectives from seven ministers who joined the ministry after the Principles took their current form. Here are essays, prayers, chalice lightings, litanies, meditations and worship readings on each Principle-helping us reflect on their significance and the ways they call us to ethical action and deeper spirituality. |
Términos y frases comunes
affirmation asked Benediction Blessed Buehrens Chalice Lighting challenge commitment COMMON WORSHIP community with peace compassion in human complexity congregational polity creative culture democracy democratic process earth Ellis Island experience faith fear feel fight free and responsible freedom glad grow souls Gutiérrez heart holy hope individual inherent worth interdependent Jared Sparks justice and equity kind liberty live look Loomer love the tensions Meditation oppression ourselves PAIGE GETTY parish minister person Powell Davies pray PRAYERS AND READINGS Principle of Unitarian prison READINGS Opening Words relationship religious community responsible search Responsive Reading ROBERT HARDIES same-sex marriage search for truth sense seven Principles sixth Principle Skinner House SKINNER HOUSE BOOKS spiritual growth theological things tion tradition transgender true truth and meaning understanding Unitarian Univer Unitarian Universalism Unitarian Universalist Association Unitarian Universalist congregations vision vote walk William Ellery Channing wonder world community worship worth and dignity
Pasajes populares
Página 83 - As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Página 65 - I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...
Página 83 - This is a world of compensation ; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and under a just God cannot long retain it.
Página 16 - I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Página 84 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 84 - If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Página 64 - Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow. As for work, we haven't any of any consequence. We have the Saint Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still.
Página 83 - As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
Página 83 - I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come...
Página 111 - When humans investigate and see through their layers of anthropocentric self-cherishing, a most profound change in consciousness begins to take place. Alienation subsides. The human is no longer an outsider, apart. Your humanness is then recognized as being merely the most recent stage of your existence...