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Worship

Calling.

‘What I worship cleaves the rock and makes the rain and melts the snow. It is a god of transformation…’

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Art Culture Worship

Poetry and religion.

‘Indulge, become capacious, give up nothing, Jack my corner grocer said. He was pushing the portobellos, but I was listening with that other, my neediest ear.’

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Art Culture Music Worship

Artists as mystics.

‘The arts, in their serious and creative manifestations, are mystical endeavors.’

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Unitarian Universalism Worship

The golden chalice.

‘Other denominations don’t make a fetish of their logos the way we do of ours.’

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Unitarian Universalism Worship

Can humanists ‘worship’?

‘Yet always, and always, there remains more mystery to explore, more to be discovered than understood.’

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Worship

Creation’s table.

You have a place at creation’s table.

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Art Music Unitarian Universalism Worship

Too much C Major.

We seem happiest practicing our religion in the bright, confident key of C Major (“Joyful, joyful!”) while belittling anything that doesn’t sound quite so chipper.

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Theology Worship

How a religious naturalist prays.

Matthew Gatheringwater explores Henry Nelson Wieman’s approach to prayer.

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Art Worship

Holy week.

Multimedia and musical recommendations.

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Conflict Worship

Helping people talk about war.

Plus worship resources from mainline denominations.