Sermon ‘Love After Love’
Sermon “Love After Love” delivered at First Unitarian Church of Dallas.
Read moreCerberus | Appendix C: The Anatomy of LBB Groups
What distinguishes Love Beyond Belief small groups from other forms of small group ministry? The inclusion of embodied practices and the deep awareness of emotion within the spiritual context.
Read moreCerberus | Appendix B: The Cerberus Syndrome
The Cerberus Syndrome is a mental health disorder triggered by business strategies devised to amass and endlessly increase extreme wealth.
Read moreCerberus | Appendix A: Cerberus and the Current Unitarian Universalist Racial Crisis
The current racial crisis in the Unitarian Universalist movement is a Cerberus event. Cerberus tactics are front and center, namely, rancor and anger, divisive strategies and devastating conquests.
Read moreCerberus | Chapter 15: Love
Cerberus egos are not born but made. They are emotionally undernourished, damaged selves. We then, as decimated selves, decimate the wellbeing of others using reason, bullying tactics, and if all else fails, Uzis.
Read moreCerberus | Chapter 14: The Love Revolution
Love is a tasteless emotion for pod people. In 1970, Cerberus sent me into the streets as a black woman mad as hell. I was suffering inside me but hadn’t the words, the ideas, or the temperament to face my suffering and acknowledge it.
Read moreCerberus | Chapter 13: Racking Focus
The racking focus thought-experiment began with a favorite story I loved to recount about my life. After recounting the story, I racked focus to see what got overlooked.
Read moreCerberus | Chapter 12: Cerberus Suffering
The role and function of my ego kept changing like a single story with many endings. My ego began as the rule maker, then became my guardian, and finally my prosecutor.
Read moreCerberus | Chapter 11: Chew On This
For most of my life I could not tell the difference between my thoughts, emotions, and sensations for one basic reason: my ego refused to help me out. The details of my experiences and discovery follow but with a traveler’s advisory note. Proceed with caution.
Read moreCerberus | Chapter 10: Cerberus Speaks
I had spent years studying Western philosophers who described what happened when they turned their attention in on itself. Now I had to become the active agent rather than the passive reader. So I created my own exercise.
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