What’s Wrong with God? – December 8, 2019

December 9, 2019 by Gail Johnson Vaughan

What’s Wrong with God? In my opening words I told you about bringing my dad to a UUCM service, and his amazement that we never mentioned God. During that service I had a deeply moving journey into the sacred. He’d had a different experience. He did not make dispersions, he simply spoke his observation – […]

Resurrecting the Spirit

October 22, 2017 by Carmen Riley, Gail Johnson Vaughan, Rev. Kevin Tarsa

I Am Learning by Carmen Riley I am learning the endless joys of sobriety The multiple ways in which to calm my fears and mend my broken spirit The multiple ways to call back my power. I learn trust Take refuge against the spiraling vortex of my past I am learning… Learning to spread my […]

Speaking Our Truth: A Tapestry of Faith

January 29, 2017 by Annie Haymaker, Frank Lawrence, Gail Johnson Vaughan, Karyn Packard

Opening Words Faith of the larger liberty – Faith for the people everywhere, whatever their oppression – This majestic old hymn tune, #287 in our hymnal, has had many lyrics set to it over the years, and these words were written by Vincent Silliman, a UU minister, in 1944. One way to think of the […]

Fathers’ Day Reflections

June 19, 2016 by Gail Johnson Vaughan

Father’s Day Reflections Gail Johnson Vaughan June 19, 2016 Happy Father’s Day. My thoughts for today are organized as a letter to the father I admire the most, my son Brent. Dear Brent, Happy Father’s Day, my heart is touched by the lovely man you have become. When you were a child your beauty was […]