Quotes & Questions Answered - a Baker's Dozen #2

Favorite quotes from former guests, Margalie Belizaire, Cal Frye, Phillis Smith, Connie Goodbread, LoraKim Joyner, Hal Walker, Kathleen McTigue, Darlene Pagano, Jyarleen Daniels, Peter Morales, Rachel Gore Freed, Janet Mason, Ariel Hunt-Brondwin, and Susan Katz Miller. Plus answers to the question, How is Unitarian Universalism as a religious denominiation uniquely positioned ot serve and impact society? Want to find out more about one of the guests? Click on the name to go to their episode! How would you answer this question? Leave your answer in the comment section below or use speakpipe (the tab on the right) and I’ll play it on the next episode! List of Quotes: Margalie Belizaire Let us be kind to one another for most of us are fighting a hard battle. – Ian MacLaren LoraKim Joyner You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves Tell me about despair, your, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. – Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver They who bind to themselves a joy Do the winged life destroy; But they who kiss the joy as it flies Live in eternity’s sun rise. – William Blake   Connie Goodbread Faith development is all we do. Unitarian Universalism is the faith we teach. The congregation is the curriculum. – Connie’s creation (it is also the mantra of the UUA Southern Region) Hal Walker “Don’t Believe Everything You THINK!” Rev. Kathleen McTigue “If our religion plays a significant role in our lives, then it must do more than simply reinforce the values of our culture. In fact, …our values are often deeply counter-cultural. Articulating the ways these values challenge certain cultural ideas about wealth accumulation…for example, is part of what it means to be prophetic….Given the public dominance of conservative religious voices today, if religious liberals don’t speak up, no one else will know that there is another religious perspective.” – Paul B. Rasor from his book –