Two Wolves and a Lamb: Democracy this July 4Unitarian Universalist Community of the MountainsJuly 4, 2021Rev. Kevin Tarsa Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” The tensions in democracy are inherent and, ideally, managed, […]
Remembering Well Rev. Kevin Tarsa A sermon delivered May 30, 2021 via Zoom to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains (Preceded by Remembering Well by Paul S. Sawyer.) For those of us who remain, it’s about remembering well. Who are you remembering today? I’ve been thinking about someone I never met. I’ve shared […]
A Community of Communities by Rev. Kevin Tarsa A sermon delivered April 25, 2021 via Zoom to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains “There is no me without you. We shape one another. … we can only find ourselves through shared becoming.” ~ enfleshed ~ Food Forests Shared becoming. That’s the reality, if […]
Coming Together to Restore our Earth Rev. Kevin Tarsa A sermon delivered April 18, 2021 via Zoom to the Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains Out of Thin Air From our Earthbound vantage point, the enveloping sky and atmosphere above us seem endless, or at least immensely vast. From the space station that circles the […]
Watch for the service video. Soon! So the Dough Isn’t Ready Rev. Kevin Tarsa Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains March 28, 2021 delivered via Zoom Rabbi Rachel Barenblat’s wonderful reading, “Ready” from her Velveteen Rabbit’s Haggadah for Pesach, preceded the sermon. OF KNEADING BOWLS I have my great grandmother’s kneading bowl. Well-used, slightly rough, […]
What will it take, now, and in this environment, to “create a politics worthy of the human spirit?” What can we discover as we mind the current gap, as we tend the open wound? And what sustaining possibilities can we imagine as we peer into it?
Who among us is not inspired by Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Had a Dream” speech? For many it guides our action and fills our imaginations of a world more just. But what if the dream is deferred or worse yet, denied? Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem” stands with King’s dream as bookends to the […]
Underneath our differences, we can recognize a set of universal human needs, says the Rev. Cat Cox. That’s the place to start, she teaches, if we want to get past what feel like irreconcilable differences. This Sunday, we focus on our interpersonal relationships as we continue to explore the crucial zone of possibility between stimulus […]
What is the place of imagination in our lives – our spiritual, emotional, and intellectual lives – especially in these times? We begin the new year by introducing our January theme of Imagination, and meet again the Roman god Janus as he looks back and looks forward. But what about NOW?
When we are in stillness, we are more apt to hear the still small voice, the one that sometimes comes with insistence – at other times, almost shyly. What is that voice? Is it the voice of God? Is it our higher self? Is it our inner knowing? Whatever it is, this is an opportunity […]
