Archives of The Flame

The archivist is on vacation until May 22, 2008.  This list will be refreshed then. 
The current version of The Flame will be continued to be posted here.

• 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