Articles

Swimming in the Deep End: Merging with the River
Rev. Douglas Kraft
Walking along the American River I came upon a tiny cove. I sat on some boulders near where the cove and the river met. In front of me the main body of the river rushed by at thousands of gallons a minute. Read more »
On Mortality
Contributing Writer
It seems that the older I get, the more I understand the way mortality shapes our perception and our willingness to be fully in this world. It’s not something I used to think about directly too scary but now I often find myself reading the obituaries, musing on what I would want my own to ...Read more »
On Mortality
Contributing Writer
Until I turned forty-six, it was easy to imagine that growing old was something that happened to others, that death was a long way off. While I hope death is a long way off, I’m coming to accept that it will happen to me, that none of us no matter how healthy or fit will ...Read more »
Listening For Our Song
Rev. David S. Blanchard
On sabbatical in East Africa, I heard a story of a people who believe that we are each created with our own song. Their tradition as a community is to honor that song by singing it as a welcome when a child is born, as a comfort when the child is ill, in celebration when ...Read more »
Making a Fist
Contributing Writer
For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,I felt the life sliding out of me,a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.I was seven, I lay in the car… Read more »
From Your Minister
Rev. Meg Riley
When did you have your first moment of spiritual awakening one which you knew consciously as spiritual awakening? I can still remember mine vividly. I was just out of college, working as a secretary, drinking too much on weekends because I couldn’t think what else to do, talking endlessly with friends about the elusive purpose ...Read more »
REsources for Living
Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar
What does it take to become enlightened? What is required in order to awaken to the truth of the universe? How do you go from your ordinary I wonder if we’re out of milk? frame of mind into a higher consciousness? Read more »
Everything We Need
Contributing Writer
We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds never touch our basic wealth. Read more »