“Science is a body of knowledge, but it’s also a human activity. Like religion, science does not exist in a vacuum and is not immune from cultural influences. Cosmos does pretty well with science as a body of knowledge. Yet it misunderstands how science works as a human activity, creating a narrative that ultimately fails everyone who marvels at the wonders of the cosmos.”
~ Elizabeth Yale

“I assure you that when you have done it for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you have done it for me.”
~ Matthew 25:40 CEB

“We must re-present Jesus.”
~ Shane Claiborne

“The tension between democracy and empire seems to be a permanent feature of the American condition. By the same token, religious liberals seem cursed to live with the tension between energizing hope and the temptation toward paralyzing cynicism. But we must recognize that cynicism is a luxury of privilege, a negative spirituality that in the end only feeds the forces of empire. We can maintain our hope, and be true to our religious ideals, if we remember that this very dissonance, this tension that so often frustrates us, can be creative as well as destructive. It can fuel the passion to question, the courage to be prophetic, and the faith to hope.”
~ Paul Rasor

“But now that so much is changing, isn’t it time for us to change? Couldn’t we try to gradually develop and slowly take upon ourselves, little by little, our part in the great task of love?”
―Rainer Maria Rilke

“I been told and I believe – ain’t no justice, ain’t no peace.” ~ Esperanza Spalding

This week, the public radio program Interfaith Voices attempted to explore the heart of Unitarian Universalism . . . questions linger . . .

“I am a child of God. I am a trauma survivor, a compassionate listener, an empathic healer, an intuitive truth teller. I am a death doula, a minister to souls, a witness, and a guide: a midwife for the Holy. I walk alongside those who are suffering and afraid. I help others to discern God’s will in their own lives. I serve as a reminder of God’s presence in each moment. I am the Quaker shaman.”
~ Emma M. Churchman

“Our destiny is written in the hand.”
—Renate Hiller

“War is the foyer to hell; coming home is hell.”
– Tyler Boudreau, author of Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine