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A Wednesday in Heaven
I just got done with a week long fellowship at Princeton Seminary, my alma mater. My track was based on preaching embodied hope in times like these, under the direction of Dr. Veronice Miles from Wesley in DC. It was awesome. I was so glad to be there and be a student again. I met…
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Healing Spiritual Wounds
Excerpts from the fabulous Carol Howard Merritt’s book, Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God after Experiencing a Hurtful Church (36) Ask yourself what harmful ideas you took in from your old religious tradition…..as you excavate the things you wouldn’t believe, you might feel embarrassed and frustrated. Remember that you are identifying a wound…
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Why Can’t This Be Love?
Of our 8 Principles, one of the ones that often gets overlooked or taken for granted, in my experience, is the 3rd. Stop! Think! Do you know what it is off the top of your head? I had to look it up, too! I always remember 1, 2, 7, and 8. I know democracy is…
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Notes From The Other Side of the World
Just got back from a whirlwind week and a half in India attending the amazing wedding of two dear friends. So many memories and colors and spices and beautiful clothes and tour stops and 45 of my closest companions having the adventure of a lifetime. I need to process this and write a ton of…
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Holidays are Righteous
I was 13. I can still feel the excitement in the air. I can smell the expectation. I can taste the adrenaline-fueled energy of the Frank Irwin Center in Austin, TX. It’s a slightly chilly day in March, but the inside of the basketball stadium is a furnace thanks to the 30,000+ people jammed into…
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I am still in love with America
I am still in love with America. An America that is yet to be. An America that is great to all her citizens and to all those who seek her shores for asylum, liberty, opportunity, and safety. An America that strives for the highest ideals, rather than settling for low hanging fruit. An America that…
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Autumn
Friends, There’s a lot going on right now. Understatement. Big understatement. But the undercurrent of all that’s going on right now is the tension between the great uncertainty of this upcoming election season, and the great promise of what the future holds for our nation and for us here at Restoration. I’m so proud of…
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Sanctuary Podcast and Sermon
I’ve been having a few talks with folks about the future of UUism and how it can feel hard to be a UU. I offer some of my own story as a possible point of view, and I promise to walk with you on that journey, even when we take different paths.
Rev. McKinley L. Sims, M.Div. 