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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel: Summer Weddings
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel. Certified by the Humanist Society, adjunct of the American Humanist Association. Sunday, October 5, 2014. Summertime, with ample sunshine and warmth, is an ideal time for outdoor weddings. Schedules are often a bit flexible in the summer as well, making it easier for family and friends to take time off of work or to travel to see loved ones wed. I hope that your summer-time was filled with warmth and joy from trips taken, family-time enjoyed, and whatever came your way!
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel: Input From Men, Please!
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel. Certified by the Humanist Society, adjunct of the American Humanist Association. Friday, March 28, 2014. Input From Men, Please! I have been thinking a significant amount, lately, about my decision to raise my female children with the cultural expectation that they will, around the age that they begin to experience pubescent growth, be thrown a "Red Party.". Let me first describe, at least in part, my vision of a "Red Party.". Every attendee wears Red, in some form, which...
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel: Visceral, Mundane, Delightful
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel. Certified by the Humanist Society, adjunct of the American Humanist Association. Tuesday, October 15, 2013. Visceral, Mundane, Delightful. Do you wonder which eccentricities. May reverberate through echoing canyons. If you dare to shout? Do you see the ethereal sadness. In the wisps and strands. Of the homeless woman's hair? Do you smile through your tears. While you attempt to unearth. All the earthly mysteries? Be visceral, remember. Be mundane, revel. Of life on earth.
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel: Celebrations of Life
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel. Certified by the Humanist Society, adjunct of the American Humanist Association. Friday, July 26, 2013. I'll open this post by stating how deeply I strive to celebrate life every day I live it. It is because of my own sense of wonder, awe, and gratitude for life that I would feel honored to write and craft a Celebration of Life with a family mourning the loss of a loved one to death. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Why I Became a Humanist Minister. I would like to tak...
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel: De-Baptism Service
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel. Certified by the Humanist Society, adjunct of the American Humanist Association. Friday, September 13, 2013. As you reflect on what it meant to you, and/or to your family, to “be baptized,” I now ask you to reflect on what it means to you, today, to be “de-baptized.”. Since you have this reason, knowledge, and wisdom – as well as this natural water within you – I ask you to spit, here, into the ground, with as your witness, as evidence of your de-baptism. I will never say...
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel: Divorce Healing Ceremonies
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Humanist Minister Elaine Stehel. Certified by the Humanist Society, adjunct of the American Humanist Association. Sunday, April 13, 2014. Helen Keller once said, "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.". Also, as a child of divorced parents, I hold in the highest regard those parents who are able to place their own pain aside, never speaking ill of the "other parent," if that parent is loving, caring, and non-abusive to their children. Today, not only a...
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