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Literary Resources
I am often asked what my sources of inspiration are which I use each week in the Sunday service. This list is a compilation of the resources used from September 2009 and January 2010. Enjoy. - bc
Biblical Passages:
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John |
3:1-10 |
Do we need to be born again? |
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Luke |
15:11-32 |
Lost in discontent. |
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Job |
1:6-12 |
Introducing Satan. |
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Luke
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17:20-21 and Gospel of Thomas 3 |
Locating heaven. |
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Psalm |
42 |
Where is your God? |
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Luke |
2:8-20 |
Be not afraid. |
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Luke |
2:1-7 |
No room. |
Books, Poems, Articles:
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Walden |
Henry David Thoreau
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Accedi and Me |
Kathleen Norris |
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The Allegory of the Cave |
Plato
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The Philosophical Baby |
Alison Gopnik
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Wilderness |
a poem by Carl Sandburg
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
Annie Dillard
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Wicked |
Gregory Maguire
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Nine Ways to Cross a River |
Akiko Busch
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The Clod and the Pebble |
a poem by William Blake
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The Case for God
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Karen Armstrong
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Stone Soup |
a French folk tale
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Mayflower |
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Dayeinue |
a Jewish song of thanksgiving |
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The Heart of Our Faith |
Rev. Galen Guengerich, UU World. Spring, 2007
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Kitchen Table Wisdom |
Rachel Naomi Remen
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Waiting |
meditation by Rev. Burton Carley from With or Without Candlelight |
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Stairway to Heaven |
Rev. Meg Barnhouse from The Return of Radio Free Bubba
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A Complicated Christmas |
Rev. Bruce T. Marshall from Taking Pictures of God
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The Happiness Myth |
Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Bright Sided |
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Secret of Happiness |
Garrison Keillor, Nov. 2009 Funny Times
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
ed. by Coretta Scott King
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Walking with the Wind
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John Lewis
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Saving Paradise |
Rev. Rita Brock and Rev. Rebecca Parker
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Poems of Our Climate |
a poem by Wallace Stevens |
Order of Service Quotes:
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"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd."
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"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed." - Vida Scudder
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"Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
- Matthew 18:3
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"It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in roses."
- Esther Warner Dendel
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"Without guilt / What is man? An animal, isn't her? / A wolf forgiven at his meat / ..."
- Archibald MacLeish, JB
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"An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has
written all the books." - Samuel Butler
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"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder
makes us fall to our knees." - St. Gregory of Nyssa
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"For the good I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do." - St. Paul
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"Silently time passes. The only life I have submits to its power." - Hatsui Shizue
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"The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it too. The river knows everything; one can learn
everything from it." - Herman Hesse
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"Heaven has no address." - Burton Carley (bc)
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"The Holy cannot be bound to an image of God. God dies to us so that the Holy
can rise again." - bc |
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"The life of the spirit, our capacity for appreciative awareness, comes down to
this-seeing gratefully." - bc |
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"Life is not fair and trouble comes to us without notice. So it is that we love.
It makes all the difference. - bc |
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"The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it." - Remy de
Gourmont |
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"[Religion] is not something else to be got, to be added, but is a new life of
those faculties which you have." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Have you met the inn keeper to your heart?" - bc |
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"You, therefore, must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." - Matthew
5:28 |
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"I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness-I look not for it if it be not
in the present hour-nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will
always set me to rights - or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part of
its existence and pick about the Gravel." - John Keats |
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"He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality." - F. Durrenmatt |
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"There is no simple choice between the children of light and the children of darkness. Good and evil
are not symmetrically distributed along political lines." - Saul Bellow |
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"We must always have old memories, and young hopes." - Arsene Houssaye |
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"What if paradise is not in some other place?" - bc
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