In the wake of Ferguson, in the wake of Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant and the 12-year-old boy with a pellet gun who was recently shot by a police officer in Cleveland and all the other young Black men killed because a White man found them threatening, it’s hard to know what to say. It’s ...Read more »

I come to church—and would whether I was a preacher or not—because I fall below my own standards and need to be constantly brought back to them. Read more »

Community has been lost in today’s world. People have become so engrossed in their own wants, dreams and desires that they don’t worry about helping anyone else. Read more »

Some of the old New England graveyards are serene little pockets of neglect. Their slate tombstones lean at odd angles and the elegant calligraphy is barely legible, spelling out obscure colonial names like Ozias and Zebulon. Read more »

Though the extended community of Unitarian Universalists is a profoundly important one for me, if I had to name where I’ve learned the most about how to create deep and grounded community, it would not be church of any kind. Read more »

“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” —Fannie Lou Hamer

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” —Dorothy Day

In a time of destruction, create something. —Maxine Hong Kingston

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her  shackles are very different from my own. ―Audre Lorde

“It is justice, not charity that is wanting in the world.” —Mary Wollstonecraft

“I wish that every human life might be pure, transparent freedom.” —Simone de Beauvoir

“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” —Tertullian

“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community.” —Dorothy Day

“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson Mandela

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” —Cornel West

“What is to give light must endure burning.”—Viktor Frankl

A disaster strikes fiercely and suddenly. It shatters our homes and property. It puts an end to many community services. It plays havoc with our interiors. A disaster leads people into and through stages of despair. Our once-so-comfortable-existence is replaced with anger, grief, frustration, and confusion. Looking back, I now see this after the disaster ...Read more »

For the first couple of months after I found AA I looked around to see if I could find a program without this kind of God language. With time I realized … Read more »

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. (Rom 12:9-10) Read more »

When we become ill, we discover what it means to be a human “being” as opposed to a human “doing.” Read more »

Unitarian Universalists hold justice to be a particularly important aspect of right relationships among human beings. But how can we temper justice with mercy? Read more »

Mental illness, like our faith, is a journey with no definitive answers and no correct path. Our illnesses demand a lot from us. There are no universally guaranteed medications or treatments; we must find what works for us. Read more »

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 »

Have you ever felt frozen after hearing the news of a traumatic event or catastrophe? After the sadness and reality of a traumatic event or catastrophe situation have settled in, you’ve probably also experienced the sinking feeling that there isn’t anything you can do to “fix” the problem. We hate acknowledging that difficult ...Read more »

While many religious traditions come together in shared theological beliefs about the divine, our tradition calls us together in shared beliefs about how it is we will be together. We hold central a theology of wholeness. Read more »