From his new novel: First Church: Spiritual Wokism in the Pews Today We decided we would go to the Halloween party together: I, a senior gay white male liberal minister, and she, a lesbian Anglo/Native American New Age flower child experiencing her early-fifties. She was also the church’s religious education director. Her name was Fred. […]
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A Small Reflection I was already retired from a nearly 40-year career as a minister when I learned the truth. It came in an email from the nephew who told me that his uncle, my minister when I was a kid, had been a gay man who was “outed” only after he had died in
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Part Three There are 104 countries which celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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Part Two There are 104 countries which celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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Part One One hundred and four countries celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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The depth psychologists tell us that we human beings are composed of multiple layers of being, or consciousness. Some believe that we are innately comprised of a collective unconscious – that we have an archetypal memory that calls to us down through the generations as a species, to fashion our existence with common-enough and familiar
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I will turn 80 years old on February 27, 2025. So, I thought I would tell you what I’ve figured out about life so far. * 80 is a number. A BIG number. And to me any number (but especially 80 these days) that ends with a zero seems formidable. I am not exactly sure
How to be Wise in the New Year I have had this life-long desire to find someone who is wise, who, with his or her wisdom, will provide instructions for me so that I might blithely traverse this “vale of tears” (as Shakespeare refers to human existence). Ever feel this way? Ever seek someone who
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Listen to the Nightbirds Sing The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi knows what is required of us at this holiday season: No more words…Stay quiet like a flower.So the nightbirds will start singing. The nightbirds – a symbol of our deeper self; that which understands even beyond our conscious being, that there is more to our
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Don Beaudreau Email: wbeaudreau@aol.com From the Lakeside Living Editor: Please note that deadline for submission of notices about a local cultural, civic, or charitable event is the first day of the month, an entire month BEFORE the article can appear in El Ojo Del Lago. Appropriate notices should include the name of the event, its location,
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