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Quest July/August 2022

July 1, 2022
01 Jul 2022

July/August 2022

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”  -Mother Teresa

Articles

    No Saviors

    Aisha Hauser, MSW, CREML
    One of the many reasons I choose Unitarian Universalism as my faith is that I don’t believe in saviors. Read more »

    Compassion & Healing

    Jason
    For me, growing up in the nightmare of my childhood and the abuses I suffered, compassion was an unknown word and concept. Read more »

    Voices of Compassion

    Brandon
    In October of 2020, I suffered a week of torment within which I was repeatedly beaten, extorted of property and medication, and sexually abused by a cellmate. Read more »

    A Compassionate Life

    Rev. Dr. Michael Tino
    Religious scholar Karen Armstrong has studied the teachings of religions large and small all around the world. And she has, as we all have, witnessed the strife in our world: the pain, the isolation, the injustice, the inequality. Read more »

    Updates from the CLF’s 2022 Annual Meeting

    Jody Malloy
    The CLF held its Annual Congregational Meeting on Sunday June 5, 2022. Anyone who could not attend the meeting was invited to vote by mail ahead of the meeting. Read more »

    Would you like your creative expression to appear in Quest?

    Quest for Meaning
    All CLF members (incarcerated and free world members) are welcome to submit reflections on upcoming Quest themes, original poetry and artwork. Read more »

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The Slowest Part of Ourselves

June 1, 2021
01 Jun 2021

The body is the slowest part of ourselves. Our thoughts, emotions, spirits — these can move at lightning speed, switching from one state to another in an instant. Read more →

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Loss as a Gateway to Compassion

June 1, 2021
01 Jun 2021

This might sound strange, but I have felt the most present, the most interconnected mentally, spiritually, and physically when I have experienced loss. Read more →

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On Grief and Embodiment

June 1, 2021
01 Jun 2021

Thank you to Rachel for your above piece, “Loss as a Gateway to Compassion” — this reflection is prompted by and written in response to your words. Read more →

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Updates from the CLF’s 2021 Annual Meeting

June 1, 2021
01 Jun 2021

The CLF held its Annual Congregational Meeting on Sunday June 6, 2021. Read more →

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Our Hands

June 1, 2021
01 Jun 2021

“I loved my grandmother every moment of my life. I still do.

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A Farewell Note from Rev. Jennifer

June 1, 2021
01 Jun 2021

This is my last column for CLF in my capacity as Learning Fellow for the Worthy Now Prison Ministry. Read more →

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Quest June 2021

June 1, 2021
01 Jun 2021

June 2021

When we heal our own trauma, individually and collectively, we don’t just heal our bodies. By refusing to pass on the trauma we inherited, we help heal the world. –Resmaa Menakem

Articles

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How It Might Have Gone

April 1, 2019
01 Apr 2019

I kept imagining how it might have gone.

I keep thinking of it like my Universalist Dream Ballet version of the horrifying/captivating Senate hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court. That is, a version of events fueled by my most idealistic notions of redemption and reconciliation. A version that would obviously include spectacle, ornate costumes and over-the-top musical flourishes, and/or non-linear plot devices—because it’s that disconnected from reality. Read more →

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Notice of Annual Meeting

April 1, 2019
01 Apr 2019

To all members of the Church of the Larger Fellowship, Unitarian Universalist

Per Article VII, Sections 1 and 2 of the Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) Bylaws, the 46th Annual Meeting will be held via video/telephone conference call and screen sharing on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 8:00PM EDT. Read more →

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