I enjoyed our recent “Blue Sky Folk Festival” and hope for many more; it was a new tradition started that may blossom into great success in so many ways- fun, first of all, a great resource for new musicians to play on occasional Sundays, fantastic advertising, reaching out to the community, and drawing in those Unitarian Universalists without knowing it who we…
Grandson of Eva Christina Johnson and Elizabeth Ann Severance (Heath), Husband of Cathie Lenore Harvie Severance, Father of Cristina Mae Schroeder a new mother, Katie Anne, a mother who lost her baby, and Elizabeth Jane Severance, Grandfather of Liberty Rose Schroeder, step grandfather of Aaron Schroeder, Son in law of Catherine Harvie, who died in 1980, and son of Eva Mae Severance,…
THE SHOEBOX MAN: “Hello”WOMAN: “Hi Honey, it’s me. Are you at the club?”MAN: “Yes.”WOMAN: “I’m at the store now and I found this beautiful leather coat. It’s only $2,000. Is it OK if I buy it?”MAN: “Sure, go ahead if you like it that much.”WOMAN: “I also stopped by the Lexus dealership and saw the new models. I saw one I really…
Easter! Passover! Pagan Rites! Springtime! Resurrection! Jesus! God! Universe! Life! Love! Sight! Hearing! Feeling! Doubt! Belief! Mother Earth! Father Sun! Yes! Mystery! O Thank You! Art Severance Amen and Shalom
A teenage girl walked in to a jewelry store, having decided to buy a pretty cross necklace, though she wasn’t particularly religious. She asked the clerk to see the choices and pointed to some and asked, “Why do those crosses have a little man on them?” “That’s Jesus,” said the jeweler. “He died on the cross.” “Ew, gross,” the teen said. “Today,…
Some years ago in Texas, there sprung up new public service billboards created by an unknown Dallas advertising agency that generated a lot of attention in Dallas AND in the advertising awards annuals. They began to make all the news sources and finally, of course, appeared on the cover of ‘TIME,’ magazine. The billboards were a simple black background with white text…
Women from our heritage of Unitarianism and Universalism were instrumental in changing the world! I don’t think I’m exaggerating too much when I say that, because there were so many that became ‘firsts to do as women’ in this country and a few in England as well. One of my favorites and earliest, was elderly, white haired Catherine Vogel; a Polish noblewoman…
I heard about a new bumper sticker the other day that read, ” Tithe if you love Jesus. Any fool can honk”. TITHE: Leighton Farrell was the minister of Highland Park Church in Dallas for many years. He tells of a man in the church who once made a covenant with a former pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every…
We are the question, love is the answer. I think it actually comes down to this- love is the meaning of life. Psychologist Erich Fromm, famous for his book back in the 1960s, The Art of Loving, says, ‘Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence… It is not a resting place but a moving, growing,…
Novelist Peter deVries once said, in his book, Let Me Count the Ways: “If you want my final opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.” “Which is it, is man one…