In a copy of a family -type magazine (TODAY’S CHRISTIAN WOMAN)-came this story and to fully understand it, you have to know that Barney is a purple dinosaur on children’s young programming who is always singing about how much he loves us. SO that told….” A woman took her four-year-old granddaughter to the doctor’s office with a fever. The doctor looked in…

This comes from one of the many sources from a course on Judaism I took back in the 1980s from a reform Rabbi; I have lost the original source, but find wonderful universal wisdom that I want to share. Remember that we glean wisdom from the world’s religions, interpreting their language. Judaism itself is based on interpretation, even more so than Christianity.…

‘Twas the Night of Thanksgiving, But I just couldn’t sleep.I tried counting backwards,I tried counting sheep.The leftovers beckonedThe dark meat and white,But I fought the temptationWith all of my might.Tossing and turningWith anticipation,The thought of a snackBecame infatuation.So I raced to the kitchen,Flung open the door,And gazed in the fridgeFull of goodies galore.I gobbled up turkeyAnd buttered potatoes,Pickles and carrots,Beans and tomatoes.I…

This joke is not part of sermon and was not told from the pulpit! One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, ‘I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.’The Marine looked…

There was once a young Unitarian Universalist child who was dining with parents at the home for the first time of an elderly great uncle, who was known to be very religious. Just before they started eating, after watching the old man bow his head and speak in a soft voice, the young Unitarian Universalist asked, Mom, what did Uncle Bob say…

Some Halloween humor: A squad car driver was covering a quiet beat out in the sticks when he was amazed to find a former lieutenant on the police force covering the beat. He stopped the car and asked, “Why, Mike, this wouldn’t be your new beat out here in the sticks, would it?” From a book called Children’s Letters to God, compiled…

The famous writing rabbi, Harold Kushner, author of the well known, Why Bad Things Happen to Good People, wrote : “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian. Or as one cynic said recently, “Of course life is unfair. If life were fair,…

There is an organizational development story about a man who injured his thumb on the job. He was told by his foreman to go to the clinic. He stepped inside and saw an empty room with only a desk and two chairs. Toward the back of the room there were two doors–one marked “Illness” and the other marked “Injury.” The man thought…

The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex. Worried the girl might become pregnant and adversely impact the family’s status, she consulted the family doctor. The doctor told her that teenagers today were very willful and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He then told her to arrange for her daughter…

The early Universalist preacher had to be somewhat defensive since they were often considered heretics, believing that God loved everyone and didn’t believe in predestination like the Calvinists. They seemed to have developed a quick and ready comeback There’s a story about John Murray, often called the Father of Universalism, that during one of his sermons, a stone flew through the window…