George Kimmich Beach

George Kimmich Beach holds degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, and Wesley Theological Seminary. He served as minister of Unitarian Universalist churches in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Austin, Texas, and Arlington, Virginia, and an urban ministry in Cleveland, Ohio. His books include The Seminal Gospel: Forty Days with Mark, and Transforming Liberalism: The Theology of James Luther Adams. He has edited three collections of essays by Adams, his teacher and mentor, and is president of the James Luther Adams Foundation. He lives in Madison County, Virginia.

From George Kimmich Beach

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Until now, we have glimpsed Adam's vision through his parables and short writings. Here is the book that many have sought in his life-work- a systematic yet nuanced and entirely readable theology for a new religious liberalism.

Book | By George Kimmich Beach | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
Tagged as: Ethics
Book | By George Kimmich Beach | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
Tagged as: Faith

Seminal essays that span Adams's entire career...

Book | By George Kimmich Beach | From Skinner House Books
Tagged as: History, History

Giver of being and freedom, thou who touches our lives in unforeseen ways, who unsettles our ease and upsets our self-satisfactions: We wait in these moments of stillness to let the hidden processes of healing and growth do their silent work within us, and to let the quiet work of reconciliation ...

Meditation | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Growth, Mystery, Searching, Silence, Trust, Unitarian Universalism

Everything begins on the verge of awareness. The dawn is not and then is. Sleep is and then is not. In between is the awakening. The passage of thin light, between, breaks open the day. The passage of thin sound, between, flows into the day. Too soon the numbing rumble of traffic swells, the day...

Opening | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Awe, Balance, Change

In the mystery of life about us there is light. It gives us a place to be, to grow, to rejoice together. It opens the pathways to love. In this place of friendship there is freedom. Let the light we kindle go before us, Strong in hope, wide in good will, Inviting the day to come.

Chalice Lighting | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Community, Connections, Friendship, Good, Growth, Hope, Journey, Joy, Love, Mystery, Unitarian Universalism

Some days dark tremors sweep across our lives. Troubling events accost us. We have grown accustomed to such things, and often we have fenced off our natural sympathies with the thought: this belongs to somebody else....

Meditation | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Hope, Self-Care, Suffering

Chris Hedges invokes UU theologian James Luther Adams in his new book, 'American Fascists,' but gets Adams only half-right.

By George Kimmich Beach | April 29, 2007 | From Ideas
Tagged as: Politics, UU Theology

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