We are who we imagine ourselves to be. Read more »

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God. — Sidney Sheldon Read more »

When I Wake Up   When I wake up ,I find myself in an environment That’s so different from the one I once knew. I find that I’ve not merely traveled out of society, But to a place no one warned me about. I collect my thoughts for a moment While gazing from the window of my cell. The rain-slicked razor wire in ...Read more »

“Come with me, and you will be, in a land full of imagination…” If You Want to See Paradise (Don’t Ask me for a Picture) Poem by incarcerated member Vylet   Yeah, I know you want something a little more upbeat. And all my poems are sad. I’d write about being happy more often, If I were happy more often. eee, Gad!   But ...Read more »

I want to acknowledge right up front that the story of the Annunciation, the visitation of Mary from the angel Gabriel as described in the Gospels presents us Unitarian Universalists, with all sorts of challenges. Read more »

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.” —Elie Wiesel

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”—Socrates

“God has no religion.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“All peoples are members of the same body, created from one essence. ” —Saadi

“The winds of grace are always blowing but you have to raise the sail.”—Ramakrishna

For many of us, it proves impossible to limit religious thought to a narrow creed. The more we learn, the more difficult it becomes to restrict ourselves to the definition of ultimate reality, or God, that we grew up with, or held when we were young. Read more »

I wrote this prayer sitting in a military chapel in Afghanistan. The prayer was inspired by my encounter with a service-member I met. 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 »