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Long live immigration reform!
Vamos a las calles!
Now that I've got past my disgruntlement over decision-making process, I'm hot to trot on immigration reform.
Why?
Well, to start with, the U.S. is actually occupying vast territories we stole from Mexico (bought very cheap after invading them and forcing them to sign a treaty giving up Texas, California, etc.). Lots of Latino immigrants are just reclaiming stolen property in land.
Plus the "Washington consensus" of free-trade globalization over… Continue

I confessed the other day in the church office that I am a PK—a preacher's kid. One of many, like Rev. Linda. "PKs can recognize each other, and they cluster together," somebody said. Ouch.
Are we PKs THAT weird and cliquish?
I dunno. Hence this blog post.
For me, being a PK meant that both my daddy and my momma graduated, together, from Union Theological Seminary in 1938. Their lives were shaped by the Great Depression and World War II. After ordination and service in two parishes, my dad went… Continue

I am thankful for Rev. Linda's sermon today. I loved the sense of a new awakening, a revitalization really, linked to the ancient Jewish Shavuot and the Pentecost of the early Christians. But most of all, I loved her sense that this Pentecost of ours might be about living here on earth, in our bodies, grounding ourselves in this place and time.
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The junkshop-recycling center of May 2nd Sunday services reminded me powerfully of a poem by Deena Metzger. I want to share it more fully here:
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I've been mulling over feelings about "white privilege" and I'm confused. I hear people (of various colors) say that UUCA white people sometimes "roll their eyes" at mention of white privilege.

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