The Rev. Lynn Ungar shares a poem she wrote upon hearing the plaintive wail of the instrument this man created. He sings his grief amidst the rubble in a village in Syria. Read more »

In a very fundamental way, we are our choices. Our choices define us, and they also define and determine what the universe becomes. We are co-creators of the universe. Read more »

How, in ee cummings words, could we doubt unimaginable you? Well, that’s easy. We’re UUs. We can doubt just about anything. Read more »

My father was coming to visit for the first time in 14 years. He met my older son ten years ago in Philadelphia. He had never met my 11 year old. It would take a book to tell all the reasons for the distance between us. Read more »

They watched, some of them, as he was put to death painfully, slowly, brutally; and then they received his broken body and wrapped it tenderly in linen, arranging oils and scent to prepare him for burial. And now, the women find his body… gone. In its place is a messenger, telling them that Jesus is ...Read more »

Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. —Ella Fitzgerald

“Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.” —Socrates

“Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” —Judith Minty

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If we look beneath memory loss and the inability to reason, we may be surprised to discover what persons with Alzheimer’s reveal to us … Read more »

Well-meaning people explain that it doesn’t matter what religion I choose, but I must choose, and only one. Only then, they say, can I go truly deep into a religion. Read more »