Ann Schranz 002- Curiosity and Binoculars
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Ann was in Nicaragua in 1977 |
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Ann sharing the beliefs that are most important to her |
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At age 16 Ann gained an interest in birding |
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Ann wanted to be a journalist in Brazil, then go birding in Amazon forest on weekends |
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Nicaragua was a transformational experience for Ann: Personal, Political, Religious |
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Ann was sensitized to issues of privilege and oppression |
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Ann's consciousness shifted to all the movements, colors and sounds around her |
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Ann could not watch humanity through binoculars |
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Lasting and significant change is messy and confusing |
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Anyone's life can change in an instant |
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Sustaining conversion requires the discipline of curiosity |
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Serious religious inquiry is entered from many starting points |
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Serious religious inquiry --crawling through the rubble of what we used to believe |
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Beauty + Social Justice need to go together |
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The quest to combine politics and art, beauty and social justice |
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Nicaragua artists most artistic, political, compassionate and resilient people |
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The cultivated discipline of impartial curiosity |
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UUs draw attention to what is outside our view of life |
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UU congregation is a place to arouse curiosity |
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UU encourages discipline in our curiosity |
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We do not want to only be around like-minded people |
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Disciplined curiosity is the approach of scientists, mystics, humanists, theists |
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Approach to truth =allow disciplined curiosity to guide us |
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Disciplined curiosity supports beauty and social justice |
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UU is not a social club for religious and political liberals |
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Religious cousins of UUs is the United Church of Christ |
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United Church of Christ uses a comma = revelation is not sealed |
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Never put a period where God intended to put a comma |
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UUs do not value questions over answers |
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UUs ask many questions and listen to many answers |
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Muslim Sufi Poet Rumi = "There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness" |
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Rumi = "Every moment a new song can come from the fire" |
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UUs require all the punctuation marks to describe who they are, including accents in foreign languages |
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UUs are shaping the future which requires finesse |
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If all we have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail |
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May we care so much about answers that we ache |
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