Category: Themes
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Our Music – At The Forefront with Justice Seekers
Music is instrumental to justice. Since music speaks to the soul, it has a way of touching and connecting people deeply. A songwriter can create a piece of art that strengthens and encourages the feelings of justice in an individual. Songs can cross barriers and connect people in shared feeling of justice and truth. Music has…
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Families Growing Together
Never Too Early to Plant Seeds For Compassion Many parents are concerned with ensuring that their child will grow up to be an empathetic and caring adult. What a great opportunity we have this month with our theme of “compassion” to make a conscious effort to help our children develop empathy! Research findings from around…
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When Compassion is The Last Song
When we are sad and hurting, sometimes we turn to music for solace and understanding. Music is our friend, composers and songwriters have been where we are. That someone is willing to turn their feelings into music to be shared with others is an act of compassion The members of the Comfort Choir practice compassion…
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Movies to watch
A Walk to Remember (2002) Shane West and Mandy Moore experience an adolescent love that matures them both and teaches them how to become compassionate. Gandhi (1986) Ranked 29th on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 most inspirational movies. There are numerous scenes where Gandhi sees despair and acts out of compassion, inspiring…
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Compassion and My Dilemma
The story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp. Back in 1939, the American Unitarian Association had put out a call for Unitarians to go to Czechoslovakia and assist the thousands of refugees who were crowding into Prague. Waitstill, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Martha, a social worker who had trained at Chicago’s Hull House, left…