The Rev. Dr. Jane Rzepka served as senior minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship from 1999 to 2010. She is the author ofA Small Heaven: Meditations and co-author ofThematic Preaching: An Introduction. Her latest book isFrom Zip Lines to Hosaphones: Dispatches from the Search for Truth and Meaning (Skinner House, 2011).
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By Jane Ranney Rzepka
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Where there can be no wordsJane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritI go for fierce landscapes every chance I get.
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Adjusting to new ringtonesJane Ranney RzepkaFrom IdeasBeing responsive to shifts and changes—in justice work and beyond—is hard and crucial for Unitarian Universalists.
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Struck from on highJane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritWeird stuff is gonna happen, and you might as well get used to it.
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My dear, you shall have themJane Ranney RzepkaFrom LifeShedding possessions as I age is a family—and faith—tradition.
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The awe comes easy, and thankfulness followsJane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritGet me outside myself, say, in a yurt on an island, and whoa—there are the stars, and crickets, the body I live in, the images of the people I love.
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'Let every heart prepare him room'Jane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritWe are, each of us, still filled with the same promise as a newborn baby. -
In hopes of traveling lightJane Ranney RzepkaFrom LifeSome people seek balance and stability, but I like to be off-kilter.
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Fellowship daysJane Ranney RzepkaFrom LifeI remember the truth and the love and the social justice, but also the cartwheels and the donuts.
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How we break the rulesJane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritRule breaking just might be right up our alley.
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Shopping for GodJane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritHowever people first come to a Unitarian Universalist church, their questions often include something about god.
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Love, freedom, and wonderJane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritRecalling a childhood in a Unitarian Universalist fellowship.
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Skeptical of sacred stories?Jane Ranney RzepkaFrom SpiritEach of us must decide the personal meaning of the Passover and Easter stories.
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First we built a sandboxJane Ranney RzepkaFrom EditorialThis was what church was all about: the cartwheels, the parade, the presents for poor people, the stinky lady.