Archives of The Flame

• A Responsive Imaginarium (January 1, 2010)
• Human Christianity  (December 25, 2009)
• An American Jesus (December 18, 2009)
• In the Valley of the Shadow (December 11, 2009)
• The Body As a Vehicle for Prayer (December 4, 2009)
• Alive with Unreckonable Gratitude  (November 27, 2009)
• Bread and Music  (November 20, 2009)
• The War That Whispers  (November 13, 2009)
• A Prophet, But No Fool (November 6, 2009)
• Out of Many, One  (October 30, 2009)
• Unitarian Universalist Clout in a Time of Change  (October 23, 2009)
• The New American Sloth   (October 16, 2009)
• What Did Starr King Really Believe?   (October 9, 2009)
• Forgiveness for the Rest of Us  (September 18, 2009)
• Is There Any Good News?  (September 11, 2009)
• Pete Seeger: A Musical Biography (September 4, 2009)
• Turtles All the Way Down   (August 28, 2009)
• Ramadan Revisited   (August 21, 2009)
• Let's Go Public   (August 14 2009)
• Imagining the Impossible: Healing the World   (August 7, 2009)
• El Salvador and the Interdependent Web  (July 31, 2009)
• In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth  (July 24, 2009)
• Reaching Past the Snake Oil Salesman (July 17, 2009)
• Sit There and Listen (July 10, 2009)
• The New Americans (July 3, 2009)
• What About our Principles?  (June 25, 2009)
• We Will Live Up to Our Own Expectations?  (June 18, 2009)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals: Anger  (June 11, 2009)
• Rites of Passage  (June 4, 2009)
• Finding Your Path  (May 28, 2009)
• Something Out of Nothing  (May 21, 2009)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals: Greed  (May 14, 2009)
• Coming of Age  (May 7, 2009)
• Be the Way (April 30, 2009)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals: Lust  (April 23, 2009)
• A Faithful Existence  (April 16, 2009)
• Enduring Betrayal (April 9, 2009)
• The Prophetic Church in the 21st Century (April 2, 2009)
• Is Your Spiritual Practice Working?  (March 26, 2009)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals: Sloth  (March 19, 2009)
• Wanderlust Redux (March 12, 2009)
• There's Something About Mary (March 5, 2009)
• Total Love in Total War (February 26, 2009)
• Losing Faith Religiously (February 19, 2009)
• Are There Poor Unitarian Universalists (February 12, 2009)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals: Envy (February 5, 2009)
• Love and Death   (January 29, 2009)
• On Whose Shoulders  (January 22, 2009)
• Fuzzy Logic for Fuzzy Answers  (January 15, 2009)
• A Question of Questions  (January 8, 2009)
• Beyond Fear  (January 1, 2009)
• There Comes A Yes: A Candlelight Festival of Lessons and Carols  (December 24, 2008)
• Countdown to Chaos  (December 18, 2008)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals: Pride  (December 11, 2008)
• Lights in the Dark (December 4, 2008)
• Righteous Ambiguity  (November 26, 2008)
• A Family Thanksgiving in Black and White  (November 20, 2008)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals: Pride  (November 13, 2008)
• SCIENCE!!! Discovering the Spark of Life  (November 6, 2008)
• The Marriage of Rev. Gregory and Mr. Stillman Stewart  (October 30, 2008)
• Stretch Our Arms: We Are Our Brother's Keeper  (October 23, 2008)
• Deadly Sins for Lively Liberals  (October 16, 2008)
• Universalism: For Such a Time as This!  (October 9, 2008)
• Who's Right about Animal Rights? (October 2, 2008)
• Shofar So Good (September 25, 2008)
• Traveling Mercies   (September 18, 2008)
• Making Loss Matter (September 11, 2008)
• Beyond Sunday (September 4, 2008)
• Spirituality Con Carne  (August 28, 2008)
• Bernell: Something About Assumptions (August 21, 2008)
• Hometown Prophet (August 14, 2008)
• Going Out Dancing (August 7, 2008)
• One Word Sermon (July 31, 2008)
• T-Shirt Theology (July 24, 2008)
• Don't Put Off Being Happy (July 17, 2008)
• Hope Is Yours! (July 10, 2008)
• Faith of the Larger Liberty: Do Unitarian Universalists need Liberty for their Faith?  (July 3, 2008)
• Meaning Chaser (June 26, 2008)
• Risking Our Lives (June 19, 2008)
• Shall We Be Instruments of Peace? (June 12, 2008)
• What is Marriage For? (June 5 2008)
• Where in the World is Hope? (May 29, 2008)
• Thank You For Your Service (May 22, 2008)
• Transitions  (May 15, 2008)
• Can God be Trusted?  (May 8, 2008)
• Hope is Fleeting  (May 1, 2008)
• Music is the Service (April 24, 2008)
• Translating Vision into Reality (April 17, 2008)
• Hope is Costly (April 10, 2008)
• Handling Surprises (April 3, 2008)
• The Power of Reflection (March 27, 2008)
• Giving Up Religion for Lent (March 20, 2008)
• If mouths were silent, the stones would shout out! (March 13, 2008)
• Hope is Suffering (March 6, 2008)
• You Say You Want a Revolution: U.S. Democracy and Nicaragua (February 28, 2008)
• Will Our Children Have Faith? (February 21, 2008)
• Colorblind or Colorbound? (February 14, 2008)
• From Fear To Faith (February 7, 2008)
• Hope is Power (January 31, 2008)
• Towards the Stars (January 24, 2008)
• Something to Believe In (January 17, 2008)
• The Frenzy of the Activist (January 10, 2008)
• A Sharp Vision (January 3, 2008)
• The Great Turning (December 27, 2007)
• Making Life Matter (December 20, 2007)
• Loving What Is (December 13, 2007)
• Lodestars of Hope, Healing, and Truth (December 6, 2007)
• Hope is Risky (November 29, 2007)
• Draw a Circle (November 21, 2007)
• Breaking Bread, Breaking Through  (November 15, 2007)
• Hope is Chosen (November 8, 2007)
• The Lightning that Preceded It (November 1, 2007)
• The Good News of Prudence Alcott  (October 25, 2007)
• A Family Portrait in Black and White (October 18, 2007)
• Standing on the Edge of Hope (October 11, 2007)
• Bearing Witness  (October 4, 2007)
• The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (September 27, 2007)
• How to Be One with God  (September 20, 2007)
• I'm Not Religious But I Am Spiritual (September 13, 2007)
• You Can Go Home Again (September 6, 2007)
• Living a Liberating Gospel (August 30, 2007)
• John Muir and the Manicheans (August 23, 2007)
• Unstupidification (August 16, 2007)
• You, U, and Especially U (August 9, 2007)
• Beyond Tepid Tolerance (August 2, 2007)
• Starr King: Activist and Ecologist (July 26, 2007)
• Healing Israel/Palestine (July 19, 2007)
• Job's Side of the Story  (July 12, 2007)
• Global Warming as a Moral Issue  (July 5, 2007)
• Sharing the Journey (June 28, 2007)
• "Pride"— Is It For All of Us? (June 21, 2007)
• Fathers, Take the Lead  (June 14, 2007)
• Don't Just Do Something, Sit There! (June 7, 2007)
• I Can't Do It All On My Own: Spiritual Centering in a Disconnected World (May 31, 2007)
• The Illusion Of Time: Clocking Out (May 24, 2007)
• Credos of Youth: Finding Faith (May 17, 2007)
• The Demise of Democracy: Naming Names and Mother's Day Proclamation for Peace (May 10, 2007)
• The Marks of Growth: Living Proof (May 3, 2007)
• To Live Until We Die (April 26, 2007)
• Willing Affirmations of a Reluctant Believer (April 19, 2007)
• Our Creed of Radical Inclusion (April 12, 2007)
• Easter for Skeptics (April 5, 2007)
• Playing the Fool (March 29, 2007)
• The Real Saints Series: Béla Bartók (March 22, 2007)
• The Generous Life (March 15, 2007)
• Do You Really Believe That? (March 8, 2007)
• Purim: If You Keep Silent (March 1, 2007)
• To Wonder is to Worship (February 22,2007)
• Proud To Be Humanist (February 15, 2007)
• When Love Fails (February 8, 2007)
• Blessings of the Community (February 1, 2007)
• The End Is Near - So What? (January 25, 2007)
• What Youth Want From Liberal Religion (January 18, 2007)
• King of Kings (January 11, 2007)
• T-Shirt and Sweatshirt Theology (January 4, 2007)
• Enough! (December 28, 2006)
• Let's Keep the X in Xmas (December 21, 2006)
• Christmas: Self-Interest as a Spiritual Practice (December 14, 2006)
• Hanukkah: Dedication As Spiritual Practice  (December 7, 2006)
• Holidays:  Families as a Spiritual Practice (November 30, 2006)
• Is this the World We Want? (November 22, 2006)
• Mass in C Minor by W. A. Mozart (November 16,2006)
• Justice or Just Us? (November 9, 2006)
• Getting Beyond Belief  (November 2, 2006)
• Proud to be Pagan (October 26, 2006)
• The gods Before God (October 19, 2006)
• Time Marches On (October 12, 2006)
• The Installation of Rev. Gregory L. Stewart (October 5, 2006)
• Forgiveness, Forget It (September 28, 2006)
• Driving as a Spiritual Practice (September 21, 2006)
• Are You in the Right Place? (September 14, 2006)
• I'm Not OK, You're Not OK, and That's OK (September 7, 2006)
• The Bejeweled Net (August 31, 2006)
• Is Life a Path, Cycle, or Neither? (August 24, 2006)
• Can We Continue to Believe People are Good?  (August 17, 2006)
• Gathering at the Table (August 10, 2006)
• On Listening (August 3, 2006)
• Permeable Boundaries (July 27, 2006)
• Riding Religiously (July 20, 2006)
• Finding a Path with Heart (July 13, 2006)
• The Myth of Independence (July 6, 2006)
• In This Refulgent Summer  (June 29, 2006)
• Building Beloved Community (June 22, 2006)
• The Perfect Father: Myth? Fiction? Fact? (June 15, 2006)
• The Note Sounding When We Were Born (June 8, 2006)
• To Open the Mind and Strengthen the Heart  (June 1, 2006)
• Sight and Insight (May 25, 2006)
• Confession: I am a Christian Fundamentalist (May 18, 2006)
• Your Mother is Looking for You. Call Home! (May 11, 2006)
• Rite of Passage Sunday (May 4, 2006)
• La Koro Sutro (April 27, 2006)
• Expect the Unexpected (April 20, 2006)
• Shaking Foundations (April 13, 2006)
• Concerning Character  (April 6, 2006)
• Christina Baldwin Is Hearing Voices (March 30, 2006)
• The Circle is Unbroken  (March 23, 2006)
• Feet of Clay (March 16, 2006)
• My Grandfather's Well (March 9, 2006)
• Show Us the Way (March 2, 2006)
• How to Grow a Great Garden (February 23, 2006)
• All Right Then, I'll Go to Hell (February 16, 2006)
• On the Road (February 9, 2006)
• I Wouldn't Be Wet (February 2, 2006)
• By Whose Authority (January 26, 2006)
• The Sacred in the Patriotic (January 19, 2006)
• Essentials of Humanism (January 12, 2006)
• Forgiving the S.O.B.'s (January 5, 2006)
• I Have Been a Fool for Lesser Things (December 29, 2005)
• Salvation: Present Tense (December 22,2005)
• The Universality of Christmas (December 15, 2005)
• Gloria and Ubi Caritas (December 8, 2005)
• The Relativity of Christmas (December 1, 2005)
• Not on a Map, Still a Country? (November 23, 2005)
• The Thanksgiving Bread Service (November 17, 2005)
• Our Social Contract with the Human Heart (November 10, 2005)
• The Free Spirit (November 3, 2005)
• Ghosts (October 27, 2005)
• Haight Ashbury is Dead. Does Unitarian Universalism Have a Future? (October 20, 2005)
• Celebrating 155 Years of the First Unitarian Universalist Society in San Francisco (October 13, 2005)
• Is Western Culture Dead? (October 6, 2005)
• Displaced (September 29, 2005)
• Water (September 22, 2005)
• The Canonization of Millard Fillmore (September 15, 2005)
• Moving On (September 8, 2005)
• A Place in the World (September 1, 2005)
• Building Community, 10 People at a Time (August 25, 2005)
• Birth to a Dancing Start (August 18, 2005)
• We're All Feminists, Of Course (August 11, 2005)
• The Danger of Believing "God Is Love" (August 4, 2005)
• What Still Connects Us (July 28, 2005)
• Friendship as a Spiritual Exercise (July 21, 2005)
• Welcome to Selma (July 14, 2005)
• Being Human Religiously (July 7, 2005)
• Finding Meaning in the Mundane (June 30, 2005)
• What Are The Queers Doing Down There? (June 23, 2005)
• The United Nations at 60 (June 16, 2005)
• The Delicious Subject of Sin (June 9, 2005)
• The Importance of Dreams (June 2, 2005)
• The Other Writing on the Wall (May 26, 2005)
• The Whole Thing (May 19, 2005)
• Coming of Age Sunday (May 12, 2005)
• Reclaiming Patriotism (May 5, 2005)
• A Stab of Dread (April 28, 2005)
• Raising Good Kids (April 21, 2005)
• Jacob and the Trickster (April 14, 2005)
• Victor Frankl, Humanist (April 7, 2005)
• Loving Mercy (March 31, 2005)
• When the Bubble Bursts! (March 24, 2005)
• Triumph (March 17, 2005)
• A Hundred Ways (March 10, 2005)
• It's All About You (March 3, 2005)
• Ahab and the Whale (February 24, 2005)
• The End of Time (February 17, 2005)
• Crossing Borders to the Land of Love (February 10, 2005)
• These Happy Few (February 3, 2005)
• America's Real Religion (January 27, 2005)
• The Book that Must be Kept Out of Children's Hands (January 20, 2005)
• Freedom: Iron Walls, Iron Wills (January 13, 2005)
• The Writing on the Wall (January 6, 3005)
• Spiritual Center and Civic Circumference (December 30, 2004)
• Holiday Services at the First Unitarian Universalist Society (December 23, 2004)
• Christmas Whisper (December 16, 2004)
• Have a Happy Subversive Christmas (December 9, 2004)
• Mary's Secret and "Gloria" (December 2, 2004)
• Entering the Conversation (November 24, 2004)
• Small Boat -- Big Thanks (November 18, 2004)
• The Gospel According to Bill Moyers (November 11, 2004)
• When the Shouting is Over (November 4, 2004)
• Boo! (October 28, 2004)
• Looking for the Judge (October 21, 2004)
• The Super in the Natural (October 14, 2004)
• I'm Afraid Everything Is Going to Turn Out All Right  (October 7, 2004)
• The High Cost of Living (September 30, 2004)
• The Liberal Church in a Fundamentalist Age (September 23, 2004)
• You Are Invited... (September 17, 2004)
• Grace that Works (September 16, 2004)
• In the Interim (September 9, 2004)
• "Faster and Faster!" Cried the Queen (September 2, 2004)
• The Puritans and Us (August 26, 2004)
• Reaching In and Digging Deep (August 19, 2004)
• BOBOs in San Francisco (August 12, 2004)
• Rev. John H. Robinson's First Sermon Sunday: "Mrs. B." (August 5, 2004)
• The Cathars and Contemporary Unitarian Universalism (July 29, 2004)
• My Next to Last Sermon (July 22, 2004)
• Rough Going (July 15, 2004)
• More Love - More Yoga (July 8, 2004)
• Of Thee I Sing (July 1, 2004)
• Wanderlust (June 23, 2004)
• John and Margot's Good-bye Service (June 17,2004)
• June 14, 2004 - Introduction to the new newsletter format