Articles

Tapping Transformation
Rev. Karen Hering
Can this really come to pass? Will justice ever roll down like waters? Will we find our way to right relationship in our personal lives, in our neighborhoods, and in our world? Many days, it seems the odds are against us, stacked much higher than forty to one. Read more »
Season of Mud
Rev. Sarah York
A friend of mine from Maine says that down east there are five seasons: summer, fall, winter, spring, and mud. Mud is the season between winter and spring, the season of melting snow when winter’s icy grip loosens its hold…but doesn’t quite let go. Read more »
Reaching Beyond
Rev. Dr. Mark Morrison-Reed
If Unitarian Universalism stands for love, it is wed to freedom. Freedom invites vision. Vision leads to change. Change causes anxiety. Anxiety awakens resistance. Read more »
Where Do We Go From Here? (Excerpt)
Contributing Writer
Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and every own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid. Read more »
Hansel and Gretel
Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar
But children rarely listen, and storybook characters, never. When they see that confectionary cottage their entrance is inevitable, like the mosquito bite you swear you will not scratch and always do, and always make it worse. Read more »
Kindness
Contributing Writer
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. Read more »
What Are We Missing?
Rev. Darcey Laine
We need to start doing things that don’t accomplish anything in particular immediately. This is urgent. This will not wait until you are retired. (Just last week a retired volunteer said to me, “I really have to take a sabbatical. One of these days I am just going to disappear for a month.”) It takes ...Read more »
From Your Minister
Rev. Meg Riley
I can still see her face. She looks up at me, head bent over, hair partially covering her face. I don’t know if Jesus turned water into wine, she says, tentatively, as if I might not be interested. Read more »
REsources for Living
Rev. Dr. Lynn Ungar
Are you a fan of the Transformers action figures or movies? I’m not really into either action figures or action movies myself, but I have to admit there’s something kind of appealing about anything that can turn itself into a whole different thing. Read more »
Spring
Contributing Writer
How deep our sleep last night in the mountain’s heart, beneath the trees and stars, hushed by solemn-sounding waterfalls and many small soothing voices in sweet accord whispering peace! Read more »
Transformation
Quest for Meaning
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin Read more »