2024
- Post-Election Message
- Quest November 2024
- The Promises of Family
- In an Ancient Forest
- Quest October 2024
- On Covenant and Accountability
- Quest September 2024
- Solidarity as Resistance
- Quest July/August 2024
- Leaning Into a Generosity of Spirit
- Quest June 2024
- Quest May 2024
- Fully Accessible and Inclusive
- Equity
- An Artist’s Prayer
- Untitled Artwork
- Quest April 2024
- Changing Together
- Transformation
- Your Transformations
- Transitioning
- Transformation
- Notice of the CLF Annual Meeting
- Quest March 2024
- Embracing Pluralism
- Pluralism
- Chaos and Concord
- Love Demands A Permanent Ceasefire Now
- Notice of the CLF Annual Meeting
- Quest February 2024
- Our Place in the Web
- Interdepedence
- Sissy Must Succeed
- Thoughts on Love and Compassion
- Would you like to represent the Church of the Larger Fellowship at General Assembly?
- Quest January 2024
- When Love is the Strength You Need
- Love
- This Trans Heart
- Rain
- Love at the Center: Exploring the New UU Values
2023
- Turn the Year Around (A Winter Solstice Story)
- The Power of Story in Transformation
- Storytelling & Stories that Shape Us
- Grandma
- Convict Chronicles: the stories that save us
- Quest December 2023
- Quest November 2023
- Sin? I’m Against It.
- Sin & Atonement
- Brothers of Healing
- The Strength of Community
- Quest October 2023
- Honoring Our Ancestors
- Ancestors
- Kudzu
- “There once was a child”
- Samhain (Learning to Hold Ancestors Close)
- Quest September 2023
- Embracing Repair
- Repair
- Writing My Wrongs
- Updates from the CLF’s 2023 Annual Meeting
- Intro to the Special Edition: Quest for Seekers
- Unitarian Universalist Principles & Values
- The History of the CLF
- Our Flaming Chalice: History & Current Use
- 10 things to know about Unitarian Universalism
- Our Theological Mandate for Liberation
- From Our Members
- The CLF: A Teaching Congregation
- Quest for Seekers – July/August 2023
- Quest June 2023
- Navigating Transition
- Transition
- Rethinking the Transition Out of Prison
- The Gift of a Sensitized Soul
- Beyond the “End”
- What A Wonder-Full World
- Wonder
- Article II Reflections
- Gratitude
- Quest May 2023
- Keep on Imagining
- Imagination
- In Passing
- UUA General Assembly – Pittsburgh – June 21-25, 2023
- Quest April 2023
- Quest March 2023
- Persistence is a Group Activity
- Persistence
- A Class on Fear
- Notice of the CLF Annual Meeting
- A Space Where There Is No Other
- Friendship
- Embracing the Living Tradition
- untitled flowing thoughts
- General Assembly
- Quest February 2023
- Quest January 2023
- A Hard-Won Hopefulness: The Journey to Liberation
- Liberation
- The Learned Among Us
- America
- New CLF Member Database Includes a Donor Self-Service Portal: We Need Your Help to Migrate to a New System!
2022
- Quest December 2022
- Practicing Rest
- In Darkness, All Things Are Possible
- Rest
- Even God Rested – A CLF Worship Service
- Quest November 2022
- November’s Theme
- Breaking Our Hearts Open // Romper y Abrir Nuaestros Corazones
- Community / Comunidad
- The Strength of Community // La Fuerza de la Comunidad
- Remembering // Recordando
- Quest October 2022
- At the Water’s Edge
- Sacrifice
- tikkun olam
- A Theological Mandate of Liberation
- Awe
- Called and Installed, Your Lead Ministry Team
- The Rainbow
- Quest September 2022
- No Saviors
- Compassion & Healing
- Voices of Compassion
- A Compassionate Life
- Updates from the CLF’s 2022 Annual Meeting
- Would you like your creative expression to appear in Quest?
- Quest July/August 2022
- Quest June 2022
- Thoughts About Integrity and Our National Character
- Integrity
- The Unknown
- From Membership to Stewardship
- Quest May 2022
- Teaching Love
- LOVE
- Butterfly
- Interminable Affinity
- Quest April 2022
- What is Memory?
- Memory
- Notice of the CLF Annual Meeting
- The Shape of Memory
- The Aunties Have Always Known
- Interdependence
- Forgive Us Our Trespasses
- A Message To The Community: A Letter From Prison
- Quest March 2022
- Whole and Holy
- Joy
- Lead with Examples
- Daily Compass
- Representing the CLF at GA 2022
- Quest February 2022
- Liberation and Salvation
- Inviting You into Community
- Invitation
- To Whom It May Concern
- The Eclipse of Our Lives
- Ora Et Lobora
- Quest January 2022
2021
- Quest December 2021
- Mysterious Ways
- Mystery
- Collective Lights of the Holidays
- For Your Reflection
- “When all else fails…”
- Centering
- I Am Now Whole
- Daily Compass
- Centering: A Little Bit At A Time
- Quest November 2021
- Praying With Our Everything
- Prayer
- 7 Centers 1
- Phoenix Rising
- October Walk
- Endings
- Calling on G.R.A.C.E.
- Upcoming Quest Themes
- Quest October 2021
- Quest September 2021
- May This Be My Last Time?
- Home
- Hello from the CLF Board Chair
- ‘Tis Mabon
- Widening the Leadership Table
- For Your Reflection
- Quest July/August 2021
- Love the Limits
- Updates from UUA General Assembly 2021
- Creativity in Cakes
- Reshaping the Soul
- Art as Creative Practice
- If You Want to View Paradise (Don’t Ask Me For A Picture)
- Flowers
- The Slowest Part of Ourselves
- Loss as a Gateway to Compassion
- On Grief and Embodiment
- Updates from the CLF’s 2021 Annual Meeting
- Our Hands
- A Farewell Note from Rev. Jennifer
- Quest June 2021
- Quest May 2021
- The System is Working as Designed
- Accountability Culture
- Introducing CLF’s new Prison Ministry Manager
- My Graveyard of Honor
- Remembering our Beloved
- For Your Reflection
- Who is Grace?
- Believing Grace
- Grace
- Looking for Sandworms
- CLF Votes to Ordain Ali K.C. Bell
- Notice of the CLF Annual Meeting
- Why Pray?
- Quest April 2021
- Cultivating Relationality in a Time of Division
- How does the CLF feed your spirit?
- Reflections
- The Five Jagged Rocks of Unitarian Universalism
- Honoring a Year of Pandemic: Grief and Gifts
- Remembering John
- For Your Reflection
- Quest March 2021
- Our Call Against Denialism
- Our Work to Do
- Spirit Draw Near
- Risk love, beloveds
- Looking for a Way to Get Involved in Our Ministry?
- Quest February 2021
- Welcome to the New Quest
- Black Lives Matter vs. All Lives Matter
- Unitarian Universalism Out Loud
- Learn More About Membership
- In the Labyrinth
- On Balance
- What’s in VUU?
- The Power of Words on Paper
- For Your Reflection
- Quest January 2021
2020
- Use Your Inside Voice
- Silence as a Spiritual Tool
- Sanctuaries of Silence
- Profound Silence
- Silence
- Dark of Winter
- Moments of Silence
- Universal Truths
- REsources for Living
- A Fond Goodbye
- Audio Resources
- Ode to Silence
- Silence
- Human Possibilities
- The Realm of Possibility
- Living As If
- Possibility in an Age of Ecological Despair
- Facing the Impossible
- Possibilities
- Autumn Leaves for Shannon
- Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- REsources for Living
- The Possibilities
- Audio Resources
- The End
- Possibilities
- Letting Go
- Carve Meaning
- Grief and Gravity
- No Words Needed
- Good Grief
- Be a Pen Pal
- What Helps
- On Love and Death
- Pay Attention
- REsources for Living
- Audio Resources
- Jeremiah 9:17-21
- Grief
- Imagining a Way
- Creative Imagination
- Pure Imagination
- Living by Imagination
- REsources for Living
- Fueled by Imagination
- New Lead Ministry Team
- We are…
- Imagination
- Washing Dishes is Not a Spiritual Practice
- Spiritual Practice
- Repeat Your Spiritual Practice
- Thank You, Meg Riley!
- Meg’s Many Accomplishments
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Resources
- Chorus of Cells
- Spiritual Practice
- Announcing the New CLF Leadership Team!
- Accountability and Reparations, Commission on Institutional Change – The VUU #302
- When We Fail
- Embracing Failure
- Splendid Failures
- Oops, I Did It Again
- Dare to Try
- From Your Minister
- Ministerial Search
- You Are Worthy of Love
- REsources for Living
- Audio Recordings
- Managing Mistakes
- Mistakes
- Modern Day Lynchings – The VUU #301
- Commission On Institutional Change – The VUU #300
- Living Into Covenant: Revising the UUMA Guidelines – The VUU #299
- Commission On Institutional Change – The VUU #298
- Living with Integrity
- Living with Integrity in a “Post-Truth” World
- Watertight Integrity
- Integrity’s Blemished Virtue
- The Crooked Timber of Ourselves
- The Integrity of Community
- From Your Minister
- Become a Pen Pal
- REsources for Living
- Support the CLF and Quest Monthly
- Audio Resources
- Full
- Integrity
- BLUU: Babies & Bailout – The VUU #297
- Commission On Institutional Change – The VUU #296
- UU Young Adults in a New World – The VUU #295
- When I Wake Up by Gary (incarcerated member in NC)
- Commission On Institutional Change: A Call to Reparations – The VUU #294
- Social Justice in a Coronavirus World, Pt 4 – VUU #293
- A Renewal of Faith
- A Glad Surprise
- Thriving in Difficult Times
- Serving Time/Served by Time
- Fundraising
- Renewal
- From Your Minister
- Notice of Annual Meeting
- REsources for Living
- Renewal is Re-knowing
- Renewal
- Pastoral Care in a Coronavirus World, Pt 3 – The VUU #292
- Faith Development in a Coronavirus World, Pt 2 – The VUU #291
- CLF Leadership RFP Deadline Extended
- Sustaining Connection in a Coronavirus World, Pt 1 – The VUU #290
- Superfan Roundtable – The VUU #289
- If You Want to See Paradise (Don’t Ask me for a Picture) – Poem by incarcerated member Vylet
- Democracy is Essential
- What Matters Most
- The Heart of Democracy
- Politics and Religion
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Make a Difference
- Audio Resources
- Above All, Love
- Politics & Religion
- In Search of New CLF Leadership – The VUU #288
- How to Live Our Faith When Going To Colonized Indigenous Lands – The VUU #287
- What’s up at Meadville Lombard Theological School – The VUU #286
- Request for Proposals (RFP)
- UU Youth on the Move – The VUU #285
- Call to Whom It May Concern – Poem by incarcerated member, James
- Take Heart
- Being Superheroes
- A Courageous Voice
- The Most Courageous Act
- Courage for the Resistance…and the Relationships
- From Your Minister
- GA Delegates Needed
- REsources for Living
- Become a Penpal
- Audio Recordings
- Courage
- Honoring Our 5th Principle – The VUU #284
- Sparks of Wonder with Becky Brooks and Erika Hewitt – The VUU #283
- Embodying Human Rights in Investment Decisions – The VUU #282
- Being both: Navigating faith for interfaith families – The VUU #281
- A Heads-up for UU Leaders: The CLF Needs You
- 276:Meet the Learning Fellows
- Crossing The Threshold
- On the Threshold
- Threshold
- In Between
- Only in the Dual Realm
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Threshold Moments
- Audio Resources
- The Year as a House
- Thresholds
2019
- Spilling The Light – The VUU #280
- Crucial Conversations in Covenanted Community – The VUU #279
- Answering the Angels
- Expect the Unexpected
- Unexpected
- Expecting the Unexpected
- When I Wake Up
- Encountering Unexpected Success…
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Resources
- The Call
- Unexpected
- Recap of LREDA Fall Conference – The VUU #278
- Commission on Institutional Change – The VUU #277
- Meet the CLF Learning Fellows! – The VUU #276
- BLUU Symposium – The VUU #275
- Grateful
- Giving Thanks
- In Praise of Weeds
- Thanks and Praise
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- Audio Resources
- Praise the Sun, the Moon, the Stars
- Thanks and Praise
- Social Justice Coordinators – The VUU #274
- Centering the Experiences of Neurodivergent UU’s- The VUU #273
- Pronouns and Spirituality- The VUU #272
- “Building A Culture of Inclusion”- The VUU #271
- The Wisdom Of Trees
- American Sacrifice
- Always Faithful
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- The Sacrifices You Make
- Audio Recordings
- Food Chain
- Sacrifice
- Prison Ministry #270
- UUA Moderator Search – The VUU #269
- Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism- The VUU #267
- Working, Not Working, and Not Working Any More
- Tending the Spirit
- Deep Play
- The Path of Play
- Full-Hearted Parenting
- Play, People. Just Play
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Quest Audio Resources
- I Hear America Singing
- Work & Play
- Remembering the Mystery and Wonder
- Earth’s Crammed With Heaven
- Witness to Wonder (Excerpt)
- Turn Toward The Wondrous
- My BFF, Jack
- Sequence
- Wonder Redux
- Thank You, Janet!
- The Gift of Uncertainty
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Resources
- O Wonder!
- Wonder
- 266 – The VUU @ GA 2019
- #265 The VUU – The Minns Lectures
- #264 The VUU – BLUU’s 2019 Harper-Jordan Symposium
- #263 The VUU Episode – Welcoming Children, Youth and Adults with Special Needs
- Passing
- Coming Out
- Who Am I?
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Ever-Deepening Identity
- Quest Audio Recordings
- Identity Would Seem To Be
- Identity
- #262 The VUU – Meadville’s New President, Dr. Elias Ortega-Aponte
- When Board/Committee Service Became a Spiritual Practice
- #261 The VUU – The UUMA Executive Team
- 260 The VUU Episode – UU Music, Part II with DeReau Farrar
- 259 The VUU Episode – UUMA Accountability
- 258 – Trauma Ministry
- Hunger and Abundance
- The Hunger Banquet
- Hungry Ghosts
- From Your Minister
- Do you hunger for meaning?
- REsources for Living
- Quest Audio Recordings
- Potluck
- Hunger
- The VUU Episode 257 -Sara Green, UUA Youth and Young Adults of Color Ministry Associate
- #256 VUU Episode – UU Muslims
- 255 VUU Episode – 2019 Search Experience with Keith Kron
- The VUU Episode 254 – Finding Our Way Home
- How It Might Have Gone
- Notice of Annual Meeting
- Finding Restoration Through Stories
- Restoring Hearts
- Restorative Justice
- Already Saved (Excerpt)
- Arrows of Love
- REsources for Living
- Soul-Restoring Work
- Audio Resources
- The Road to Restoration
- Restoration
- 253: TRUUsT – What’s New What’s Next
- VUU 252 – After the Protests Are Heard with Dr. Sharon Welch
- 251 VUU Episode – How Covenant Can Help Us Challenge the Status Quo with Julica Hermann Fuente
- #250 VUU – A Discussion About UMC w/ Rev. Dr. Lightsey
- Hungry Hearts
- The CLF is There for You
- The Theology of Desire
- The Cage of Desire (excerpt)
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Ananda’s Eyes
- Desire
- 249 VUU 2919 Harper-Jordan Memorial Symposium by BLUU
- VUU 248 – Side With Love – with Elizabeth Nguyen and Everette Thompson
- 247 – Progressive Faith Beyond Optimism
- A River or a Rock
- Listening to Powerful Truth
- The Truth Shall Set You Free
- A Point of View
- From Your Minister
- A World of Half-Truths
- REsources for Living
- Audio Recordings
- Truth Against the World
- The CLF Invites GA Delegates
- Truth and Lies
- 246: Florida Rights Restoration: Amendment 4
- A Unitarian Monk in a Catholic Cloister
- 245: An African American and Latinx History of the US
- 244: Shutting it Down
- 243: World Refugee Crisis with Latifa Woodhouse
- 242: US Border Refugee Crisis with Alex Dixon
- When Hope and History Rhyme
- The Good News of Hopelessness
- The Reason Why
- An Airplane That Never Lands
- When Hope is Hard to Find
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Resources
- Freedom Ridge
- Thank You
- Hope
2018
- 241: Year in Re-VUU
- 240: Welcoming Congregation Renewal Program
- 239: ARE: Allies for Racial Equity
- On Humility
- You Might Be Wrong
- Humility and Hubris
- From Your Minister
- Positive Change
- REsources for Living
- Audio Recordings
- Christmas
- Humility
- 238: Diverse Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries with Rawna Hammamy and Sana Saeed
- 237: LREDA with Annie Scott and Sheila Schuh
- 236: Post-Election Roundup with Alison Miller
- 235: Supporting Our Trans Community
- A Way Out of No Way
- Spiritual Ancestors
- Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- Always
- And When Ancestors Are Dishonorable?
- Living On
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Recordings
- Oops!
- Honey
- Ancestors
- 234: F-Bombs to Pipe Bombs: The Consequences of Political Contempt with Nate Walker
- 233: Collaborative Leadership with Deanna Vandiver
- 232: Coming Out Day!
- 231: Stop Kavanaugh: The Protest in DC
- And Not Grow Weary
- Perseverance
- Offering Comfort and Support
- Swimming Lessons
- Cinders as Far as the Eye Can See
- Blessing for the Brokenhearted
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Recordings
- Ra’s Army
- Persistence
- 230: Trans Faith & Faith Formation with Jaelynn Scott
- 228: Take on the Doctrine of Discovery with Kia Bordner and Clyde Grubbs
- 229: BLUU with Dr. Takiyah Nur Amin
- 227: CLF Worthy Now Prison Ministry w/ Mandy Goheen
- In the Midst of It All
- Transmogrified
- Revolutionary Love
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Recordings
- Always Being Made
- Always in Beta
- Making Change
- A Wholehearted Sabbath
- Space of Renewal
- The Ritual of Sabbath
- Vacation as Spiritual Discipline
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Adjacent to Eternity
- Sabbath
- Been there for me
- 226: The Commission on Institutional Change
- 225: UUA Presidential Search Committee Report
- Beauty as Well as Bread
- Loving Ugly
- Inner Beauty
- Do You Find Beauty
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Audio Recordings
- Aching Beauty
- Beauty
- 224: Global Majorities with Marisol Caballero
- 223: UU Humanism with Dr. Anthony Pinn
- 222: Forgiveness with Julie Taylor
- 221: Justice on Earth with Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Jennifer Nordstrom, and Peggy Clarke
- Caminamos Juntos with John Simsarian and Samantha Silva Nogueda
- Freedom From. Freedom To
- Free and Responsible
- Freedom of Association
- Family Tree
- Free on the Inside
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Freedom to Do as We Will
- Freedom
- 219: UU Jewish Identity with Leah Hart-Landsberg and Marti Keller
- 218: On Ministry and Disability with Sierra-Marie Gerfao and Theresa Ines Soto
- 217: Prison Ministry with Mandy Goheen, Karen Mooney and Jason Lydon
- 216: A Visit With the UUA with Susan Frederick-Gray and Carey McDonald
- God, Jesus and the Tooth Fairy
- Notice of Annual Meeting
- The Miracle of Life
- A UU View of Miracles
- Ordinary Miracles
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Our Own Miracles
- Did You Know?
- Small Miracles
- Miracles
- 215: Even Acknowledging My Own Racism is Controversial with Doug Muder
- 214: UU Earth-Centered with Catharine Buck Clarenbach
- 213: Grief and Religious Leadership with Lisa Presley
- Changing Perspectives
- Living Life as a Blessing
- 212: The Ten Commandments: A Radical Manifesto for the 21st Century with Ana Levy-Lyons
- 211: UU Christianity with Jake Morrill and Kelly Murphy Mason
- A Place for Exploration
- The Spiritual Force to Combat Evil
- On the Origin and Nature of Good and Evil
- Overcoming Evil
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- CLF Helps Members
- Did You Know?
- The Individual Who…
- Evil
- 210: UU College of Social Justice Programs with Heather Vickery
- 209: Complexities of Civil Discourse with Wendy Von Courter
- 208: The VUU Roundup: Catching up with our hosts
- 207: Our Anti-Racism Work: Creating Accountability in our UU World with Julica Hermann de la Fuente
- Noah’s Ark
- To Praise the Earth
- Dear Mother Earth
- I am a Denizen of the Earth
- Strives to Inspire
- A Sacred Act
- The Way Your Dog Lies Down
- The CLF Invites GA Delegates
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- From dust thou art, and to dust returneth.
- Earth
- 206: UU Youth Ministry in the House!
- 205: Running for Office as a Matter of Faith with Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith
- 204: Multicultural Centering with Sana Saeed and India Danielle
- Finding a Church Home
- 203: LREDA Fall Con Lessons Learned
- Awake in the Dark
- Resistors and Capacitors
- Disobeying Herod
- Resistance as Prophecy
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know
- When Resistance is Futile
- Resistance
2017
- 202: Solstice: Celebrating Darkness
- Fighting with Siri
- 201: Honoring the Legacy of Denny Davidoff
- 200: International LGBT Human Rights
- The Master Plan
- Giving and Receiving
- The Gift is in the Asking
- Generosity First
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- In Midwinter
- Giving and Receiving
- 199: Toxic Masculinity with Rus Funk
- Share Your Gifts with #CLFGifts this Holiday Season
- 198: What’s New on the Side of Love with Nora Rasman and Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen
- 197: Holding Police Accountable with Adam Gerhardstein
- To Be a Blessing
- Bless One Another
- A Father’s Blessing
- Calling on Wholeness
- From Your Minister
- Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Buddy
- Blessing
- 196: UUs, Music and Appropriation
- 195: Dismantling Oppression in Governance
- 194: Testimony: The Transformative Power of Unitarian Universalism
- 193: St. Louis with Kimberly Hampton and Jake Lyonfields
- In the Face of Evil
- Sacred Vulnerability
- Sustenance During Vulnerability
- The Shadow Side of Vulnerability
- The Difficult Gifts of Vulnerability
- A Hazardous Country
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Inhabiting Vulnerability
- Vulnerability
- 192: BLUU with Lena Gardner, Didi Delgado and Rev. Mykal Slack
- Confronting the Legacy of Slavery in the North
- 191: White Supremacy Teach-in 2
- Hope in the Possibilities of Life
- Whose Streets?
- 190: Charlottesville with Christina Rivera
- 189: The Fight for Healthcare for All
- Riding the Waves
- A Community of Support
- Resilience as a Spiritual Strength
- Stronger in the Broken Places
- Observations at Southwest Atlanta Nature Preserves
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- I Began to Ask Each Time
- Resilience
- 31 Archive: The Muslim-UU Connection with Ibrahim Farraje
- An Open Letter to the Closeted Gay Men Who Helped Draft the Nashville Statement
- 73 Archive: The Tea Party is a Confederate Party with Doug Muder
- Us and Them
- 105 Archive: Collective Liberation with Chris Crass
- 99 Archive: Religious Freedom with Nate Walker
- 8 Modes of Resistance for These Times
- 78 Archive: Military Chaplaincy with Rebekah Montgomery
- A New Church Year, a New Worship Platform
- Charlottesville is Us
- In the Shadow of the Bomb
- 77 Archive: How to Die Well with Danielle Di Bona
- Getting Tough
- 48 Archive: Caregiving and Alzheimer’s with Jade Angelica
- 18 Archive: Feminism, Theology and Ministry
- Ways of Knowing
- Finding True North
- Reconciling Science and Religion
- Science and the Sacred
- Discovery
- How Do We Know?
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Tao Te Ching, 71
- 188: Live from the 2017 UUA General Assembly in New Orleans
- 187: Writing in Black and White
- 186: Global Strategies of Resistance
- 185: Intentionally Radical and Spiritual
- 185 Excerpt: Covenant and Spiritual Practices
- 185 Excerpt: Radical or Liberal
- The Soul of the Whole
- Soul
- The Movement of the Spirit
- REsources for Living
- From Your Minister
- Gardeners of the Spirit
- Did You Know?
- Within Us
- Spirit/Soul
- 184: A Handmaid’s Protest with Erin Walter
- Invitation to CLF Congregational Meeting
- 183: Black Lives of UU
- Show Some Love
- Hull House
- The Hungry Coat
- 182: Integrating Faith and Queerness with Michael Crumpler
- 181: Power, Religious Educators and Ministers with Meagan Henry
- Money, Money, Money
- The Values of Money
- Five Dollars is Five Dollars
- Your Money and Your Life
- Be The Light
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- The People of the Earth Go Down
- Money
- 180: Stories of UUs of Color
- 180 Excerpt: Yuri Yamamoto’s “Rant” About Privilege
- 179: Black Lives of UU
- 178: Coming of Age with Bart Frost and Hannah Eller-Isaacs
- Creativity is Everywhere
- A Creative Life
- The Grasshopper and The Ant
- 177: UU White Supremacy Teach-In
- Creativity, Art and Failure
- We Journey Together
- The Creative Spirit
- Pure Imagination
- The Spirit of Creativity
- From Your Minister
- Notice of Annual Meeting
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Your House
- Creativity
- 176: Alison Miller, Candidate for UUA President
- UU White Supremacy
- 175: Jeanne Pupke, Candidate for UUA President
- 174: Black Lives of UU
- 173: Ministerial Search with Keith Kron
- 173 Excerpt: Good Relationships Between Ministers and Congregations
- 172: Susan Frederick-Gray, Candidate for UUA President
- Thus Do We Covenant…
- The Covenants We Keep
- For All Those Who Seek Help
- Bound in Covenant (Excerpt)
- In the Presence of God and One Another (Excerpt)
- From Your Guest Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- City Upon a Hill
- Covenant
- 171: Black Lives of UU
- 170: Moral Resistance with Jen Butler
- Your Body is Your Body
- All Bodies Need Care
- Finding Your Body’s Strength
- 169: UU Talks with Peter Bowden and Twinkle Manning
- Rise in Body or in Spirit
- Uses of the Erotic
- Inhabiting Ourselves (Excerpt)
- The Least Embodied Church
- From Your Minister
- Biscuits and Star Stuff
- The CLF Invites GA Delegates
- Did You Know?
- Blessing for Bodies
- Embodiment
- 168: Prophetic Faith Development with Judith Frediani
- 167: Black Lives of UU
- 166: The Religious Right with Peter Montgomery
- 165: Immigration and the New Sanctuary Movement with Katia Hansen
- Get the Life You Want
- Something New
- A New Freedom of Faith
- Repainting Our Lives
- Transitions, Expected and Unexpected
- Making Change
- Moving with Change
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Help Wanted:
- Did You Know?
- Wave Driven by Wave
- Change
2016
- 164: Joy as a Form of Resistance
- 163: Black Lives of UU
- 162: Movement Building
- 161: Resistance and Resilience
- Sacred Waiting
- Sweet Anticipation
- Impatient with Waiting
- We Needn’t Fear the Darkness
- A Litany of Waiting
- What Are You Waiting For?
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Another Kind of Knowledge
- Waiting
- Ways to Wait
- Waiting is Not Easy!
- The Father of Christmas
- 160: Black Lives of UU
- 159: Update from Standing Rock #NoDAPL
- More than Words
- 158: Fellowship Movement (1948-67)
- Thanks for Thanksgiving
- Choosing When to Pray
- Meal Blessing
- Prayer
- A Thousand Ways to Pray
- The Call to Prayer
- Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- Prayer
- We Open Many Doors
- ACTS Prayer: A Unitarian-Universalist Guide
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Prayer in a Time of Awe
- 157: Abelism with Theresa Ines Soto
- 156: Black Lives of UU
- The Realness of Digital Church
- 155: Indigenous People’s Day and the Dakota Pipeline Protests
- 154: Clergy Misconduct in Unitarian Universalism
- We Belong to Each Other
- In the Circle of Love
- A Place to Belong
- Becoming and Belonging
- You Belong Here
- Why Belong?
- My Tribe
- A Letter to a Cousin
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Belonging
- Belonging
- 153: Black Lives of UU
- 152: The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Latifa Woodhouse
- 151: Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War
- Sky Woman Falls to Earth
- Blessing for Something New
- When did Unitarians begin?
- Beginnings
- On the First Day
- Beginning Again
- To Be What You Might Have Been
- Starting Over…and Over…and Over (Excerpt)
- Beginnings
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Growing Our Commitment
- Did You Know
- The Legacy of Caring
- We Need Joy
- The Blessed Gift of Joy
- Dance Break for Joy
- Send in the Clowns
- A Bright Golden Thread
- Thanks to Congregations
- Missing Mudita
- Joy in Ordinary Time
- Simple Joy
- River of Joy
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- At the Heart of All Creation
- Joy
- 150: Live from General Assembly in Columbus!
- 149: Cultivating Empathy with Nate Walker
- 148: Pipeline Protests in Boston
- 147: Christ for Unitarian Universalists
- Where Are We Going?
- A Tale of Two Ministers
- Silk
- Searching Among Stones
- Face to Face with Mystery
- Mysterious Ways
- Embrace Mystery
- god is no noun
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- The Mysterious
- Mystery
- 146: Happy the App!
- 145: Black Lives of UU at GA 2016
- 144: What It Means to be White
- Children* In an Election Season
- 143: Sustainability Summit
- 142: TRUUsT (Trans Religious Professional UUs)
- 141: A UCC Minister at a UU Church
- What Justice Looks Like
- King of Compost
- Making Justice Now
- Calling Forth Justice
- Anger and Justice
- A Public Voice for Justice
- Justice Behind Bars
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Breathe
- Justice
- 140: Showing Up for Racial Justice
- 139: Black Lives of UU
- 138: Jewish Activism/Jewish Renewal
- Free for All
- The Power and Poverty of Freedom
- Cultivating the Courage to Act
- To All Get Free Together
- Slipped the Bonds
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Notice of Annual Meeting
- Did You Know?
- We Have Not Come Here to Take Prisoners
- Freedom
- Freedom Bird
- 137: Meet the Candidates for UUA President
- Come and Go With Me
- Moving Toward Freedom
- 136: Welcoming Young Atheists with David Breeden
- 135: Risk is Real with Black Lives of UU
- 134: Cheryl Walker and the UUMA
- 133: Going Forward Together: The UUA Covenanting Task Force
- Beautiful and Broken
- Whole, Not Broken
- The Cracked Pot
- Brave Love
- Try to Praise the Mutilated World
- An Apology
- Human Feelings of Brokenness
- Broken
- Midori and the E Strings
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- The Unbroken
- Brokenness
- 132: Two Who Dared: The Sharps and the Holocaust
- 131: Beloved Conversations
- 130: The Power of Narratives with Black Lives of UU
- 129: UUA President Peter Morales
- The Hungry Coat
- An Invitation Song
- A House for All
- 128: Search and Settlement with Keith Kron
- The Fragile Art of Hospitality
- Called to Hospitality
- Welcoming What We Do Not Want
- The Guest House
- Radical Hospitality
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- The CLF Invites GA Delegates
- Did You Know?
- Hospitality
- Hospitality
- 127: Black Lives of UU
- 126: Caitlin Breedlove: Standing on the Side of Love’s New Campaign Manager
- 125: Climate Change in Paris
- Noah and the Rainbow Covenant
- Wishing for Something New
- An Unexpected Second Chance
- Secret-Keeping
- Not as Alone as You Think You Are
- The Biggest Secret at CLF
- Secrets and Silence
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Secrets
- Secrets
2015
- Uncertainty and Solidarity: Reflections on Shutting it Down with Black Lives Matter
- 124: On Showing Up and Support: Black Lives of UU
- 123: Radical Hospitality: UU Rise and the Refugee Crisis
- Finding the Helpers
- 122: What’s New in Religious Education?
- Hopes for the Day
- Tamale Hope
- A Legacy of Hope
- I Had To Answer Love’s Call – Will You Answer It With Me?
- At the Intersection of Despair and Love
- The Hope of Our Ancestors
- Hope Has Human Hands (Excerpt)
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- A Time of Stillness and Cold
- Did You Know…
- Hope
- 121: O Canada!
- A Black Lives Matter Sermon
- URGENT: Release Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana and other Unitarians Suffering Persecution in Burundi
- Lena K. Gardner Recognized for Outstanding Community Organizing
- 120: Black Lives of UU
- The Revolution will be Broadcast by You [VIDEO]
- [VIDEO] In the Ruins
- Nurturing Your Creative Soul Through Writing
- 119: The Kids are Alright: UU Youth Programming
- New Blog for the Church of The Larger Fellowship!
- 118: Lucy Stone Wins Big!
- Blessing for the Journey
- Jumping Mouse
- The Longest Journey
- On Setting Out and Coming Home
- CLF Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- Trail Blazers and Covenant Keepers
- Opportunities to Journey
- Map of the Journey in Progress
- Pilgrims Always
- From Your Minister
- Hope
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know…
- Journey
- Trains
- 117: All Black Lives Matter
- 116: It’s All About Us – A Show About the CLF!
- 115: Music That Moves the Soul
- 114: A Celebration of Bisexuality
- Dan Berggren
- Love is Something if You Give it Away
- Silk
- In Search of Abundance: Margaret Fuller
- 113: Continental Gathering of UU Seminarians (CGUUS)
- Abundance
- Not What We Have, But What We Enjoy
- Finding Abundance
- The Answer is “Everything”
- Abundance
- Be a Stream, Not a Swamp
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Raspberry
- 112: Seven Principles for Black Lives
- Celebrate Bisexuality Day 2015 – A Prayer
- 111: Correlations and Covenants with Tandi Rogers
- 110: Justice and Compassion for Refugees
- A Prayer for Labor Day
- New Orleans Ten Years After – 109
- A Forgiveness Ritual
- Forgiveness
- A Lesson in Forgiveness
- Forgiving the Broken
- Radical Forgiveness (Excerpt)
- Hall of Records
- Finding Forgiveness
- An Opportunity to Give
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Forgiveness
- Apologies and Forgiveness
- Adin Ballou: Peace and Forgiveness
- Let your anger guide you to beloved action: Join me in Ferguson
- Prayers for Chattanooga
- The Coming WORR: A Week of Righteous Resistance July 12 – 18
- Notes to a white religious leader
- Lorraine’s Choice
- “Stars,” by Namoli Brennet
- Part of the Great Story
- The Stargazer Who Discovered a Comet
- Faith in the Borderland
- Our Religion
- Friend
- Joy
- A Bittersweet Time
- Be Like Water
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Music Together
- Crying Together
- Anne Lamott and the Pee-Pee Tweet
- Grace
- Everyday Grace
- Adventures in Grace
- Divine Grace
- Grace-full Moments
- Amazing Grace
- Executive Director to Retire
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know?
- Bestowers of Grace
- Table Grace
- The Grasshopper and the Ant
- Muddy Children
- Perils of Perfection
- Imperfection: The Perfect Spirituality
- Want More?
- Always Evolving
- The Healing Moment
- The Imperfectionist
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Afterward
- Mistakes
- Be Perfect
- Blessing after a Mistake
- John Murray and the Winds of Change
- Music to Sustain a Movement: Tending to the Grief, Rage, and Love
- Did You Know?
- If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, A Poem for Healing
- The Well
- Angel of the Battlefield, Clara Barton
- Healing
- The Healing Touch
- Notice of Annual Meeting
- We Go to the Sea
- Praying in the Wind
- Healing
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- A Refuge of Spiritual Reflection
- Did You Know…
- A Tomb Is No Place to Stay
- Never Turning Back
- Snail Girl
- A Woman of Courage: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Selma 2015: 50 Years After The March
- Courage
- The Cadence of Courage
- Living with a Courageous Heart
- Standing Like a Tree
- The Courage to Endure
- Carrying the Wasp
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- To Risk Going Too Far
- When Things Fall Apart
- Did You Know?
- NEW Facebook Groups
- Love
- Living by Love
- Sharing the Love
- Love Is…and Isn’t
- CLF Invites GA Delegates
- Tucked In
- Because of Your Dollars
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Did You Know…
- Merlin Said
- Meaningful, Challenging, Inspiring Questions
- Haikus of Hope
- Transformation
- The Necessity of Discomfort
- Transformation vs. Acceptance
- The Stream: A Sufi Story
- These are the Times that Grow Our Souls (Excerpt)
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Life’s Transformations
- Did You Know?
- Nighttime, January
2014
- Breathe: A Poem
- Ministry Mantras
- Seeing is Believing
- The Reverend Joseph Cleveland
- Markus Grae-Hauck
- Signs and Wonders
- What Will We Do with God?
- Do you believe in God?
- Brief Thoughts on God
- Wondering and Wandering
- No One Lights a Lamp
- Miracles and Wonders
- God Crashes the Wedding
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- Salvation
- Restoration
- What Must I Do to Be Saved?
- To Live Deliberately
- Striving for Perfection
- Cherish the Dream
- Do Justice
- Sorry, Hon, Not My Table
- The Wellspring of Decency
- How Much Do We Deserve?
- The Question of Evil
- Sin Brought Me Back
- The Gift of Sin
- So Many Little Deaths
- Coming and Going
- When I Die
- A Shovel Full of Earth
- New Quest for Meaning Website Launches
- Resurrections
- Love and Death
- The Losing Team
- Justice, Elections, and Whiteness
- Election Day, November 4, 2014
- Be Still
- Home Is…
- A Spiritual Home for Prisoners
- Home Is Where You Park It
- Finding Home
- By the Waters of Babylon
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Coming Home
- Home
- Conscience and Choosing the Hill to Die On
- Plenty and Then Some
- The Neighbors are Zombies Living in Maslow’s Basement!
- Please
- Twenty Inches
- Where Is the I in Me? Emotions, Self and Soul
- Companions on the journey
- Who Do You Listen To?
- Razor Blades and Ebola: Processing Fear
- Moving at the speed of gratitude
- Surf
- Beliefs, A-Liefs, and Seeing the Way Things Are
- Good Enough: 10 Tips for Sucking Less
- Grief
- Grief—One Year Later
- Working Through Environmental Despair (Excerpt)
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Offering for Grief
- Mourning
- A Summer Memory
- The Open and Shut (?) Case on Religious Thinking and Cognitive Closure
- What To Do With Privilege After Ferguson
- Sunny Side Up with a Side of Racism
- A Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin: So What’s Our Excuse? (A Humanist “Theology” of Radical Welcome)
- An invitation to the party (haiku)
- Recipe
- Security
- It’s always 9/11 Now: Porous, Buffered, and the Search for Authentic
- The Courage for Compassion
- Blessings from Heaven
- Moses, Jesus, Paul and Sacred Soundbites
- When in doubt, choose the side of Compassion
- The Challenge of Unitarian Universalist Theology
- In Translation
- Saved
- From Your Minister – September 2014
- We Covenant
- REsources for Living
- A Great Need
- Theological Diversity and Common Ground
- The Spiritual Practice of Agnosticism
- Because it is the Faithful Thing To Do
- Ferguson: Cynicism and a Smartphone
- My Grandparents are from Ferguson….
- Close to Home
- The Rise of the Totally Awesome ‘Whatever’ God
- It’s Not Just Ferguson
- Spiritual but not Superstitious (Mystical Without the Mumbling)
- What to Say?
- Home Making
- Reps of God: Christian Triumphalism and the DIY Future of Unitarian Universalism
- The Journey is Essential
- House on Fire: Church Attendance in the US
- Circle Round for Freedom
- Martian Sleeper Cells and A-Model Tism
- Eleanor Rigby’s Selfie
- Keep the Faith
- Way to Go, Supreme Court: Another #facepalm
- Turn the Principles Upside Down
- How It Happens
- Welcome to Cell No. 9
- One Today – Poem by Richard Blanco
- From Your Minister – July 2014
- REsources for Living
- The Sun Shines Not On Us…
- Independence and Interdependence
- In Prayerful Solidarity with Dr. Ersula Ore
- Roadmaps for the Soul (or: Hunting, Gathering, Singing)
- Got…a new and bigger question?
- Making Sense of Life (or: Three Decorating Ideas for the Mind)
- Love is the Boss of Me
- The Proof’s in the Pudding (or What’s Churchy about Church?)
- Oops, Oh Well
- Disappear or Die: Southern Black Trans-Experience
- #Development—It’s Nothing Personal
- Leaving Blooms
- The Faith of a Trapeze Artist
- Embracing the Dangerous and Sacred (Excerpt)
- The Risks We Take
- Finding Our Way in the Wilderness
- Into the Wilderness
- From Your Minister – June 2014
- REsources for Living
- Risk
- Security and Risk
- What He Deserves
- Spiritual But Not . . . Keep Talking
- What is a “weekend,” exactly?
- Day Eight
- Day Seven
- Day Six
- Day Five
- Day Four
- Day Three
- Day Two
- Tinfoil Hats and the Examined Life
- Day One
- Famous Unitarian Universalist Men
- Famous Unitarian Universalist Women
- What to Wear
- Bomb Throwers, Navel Gazers, and Goin’ All Thoreau: Doing Justice
- We’ve Come This Far…
- Those Who Came Before Us
- Salvation Hits the Couch
- Give me the heart
- Wonder
- Too Much Noise
- Carrots, Sticks, Paddles, and Autopilot
- The Glove in the Subway
- Letting Go of What We Don’t Have
- The Roots We Choose (Excerpt)
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- A Stone to Hold On To
- Letting Go of the Past
- Holding On / Letting Go
- The Trouble with Donald Sterling
- Rest Easy
- Springtime Beckons
- However They Have Writ the Style of Gods: Wounds and Healing
- Earth Day Notes from New Orleans
- A Quarterway Home
- Simple Prayer, Profound Meditation
- Pagans, Cheasters, and Nones: Easter and Open-Source Religion
- The Joy of Taxes
- Earth: Our Deep Home Place
- Decision Season
- Let’s Agree to Agree on Subjectivity
- Pulling Weeds
- How You Makin’ It?
- How Are You…Really?
- A Semi-Private Idaho and Life in the Goldilocks Zone
- Women with a Vision – and a Voice!
- Pancakes and Process Theology
- Born and Reborn Again
- Night of Blood and Fire
- The End Is Not Near
- From Your Minister
- Everything is Waiting for You
- Possibilities
- What Healing Looks Like
- Seriously—Who Said We Can Choose Our Own Mysteries?
- Fallen Angels, Rising Apes, and the Knowledge of the Serpent
- In Which Cackling Self Vanquishes Wild Grief, While Rational Self Could Not
- Good-Bye, Fred Phelps
- Do Justice
- At Least One Way to Put It
- Think…Less?!
- Sin Isn’t Very Original: Dostoyevsky and the Freedom to Really Mess Things Up
- WATER SOLIDARITY
- Be Kind…
- When Plans Go Awry
- Nature, Nurture, Murder: The Lessons of the Eugenics Craze
- Company at the Bedside
- What Now?
- Health
- Both Whole and Healing
- Boldly Co-Existing with Mental Illness
- Another Helping of Brokenness
- Burnt Kabob
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Our Birthright of Healing
- Health and Illnesses
- Nomination for Most Necessary Picture: Twelve Years a Slave
- Of Time and the Nebulous
- All the Rage
- It’s Carnival Time!
- Thank You For…
- A Softer Focus
- How Unitarian Universalists Do Church
- Remember? #NeverLovedUs
- Spiritual Practice for Skeptics
- Valentine’s Day
- Bee Wise
- The Harvest Comes
- Brave Love
- Apocalypse Never (and what we can do about it)
- There Are Many Right Ways
- From Loneliness to Solitude
- Power of One
- Finding Strength in Silence
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Loneliness and Longing
- Solitude
- What Bowling Taught Me About Patience
- Beginning must not be the end….
- A Scream and a Theory: Natural Selection and the Higher Moral Order
- A Whole Heart: Remembering Pete Seeger
- Take Good Care
- Worthy to be Entrusted
- Flying Over the Squares (for small farmers)
- Epiphany (Continues)
- How Is It with Your Day?
- Frosted Windows and Heavy Hammers
- A Gift, A Letter, and a Drowning Man: The Legacy of “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
- Saving the music, Saving our souls
- The Coin That Wowed Me
- A Candle in the Window
- What A Miracle Is
- After the Resolutions Die
- Unconditional Love: An Epiphany
- Baby, It’s Cold Outside
- The Eager Chaplain
- On Building Bridges
- Learning Otherwise in Receiving
- Sometimes It Takes A Lie
- The Beginning is Now
- In the Beginning . . .
- Unexpected New Year
- In the Beginning
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Where it Starts
- Beginnings
2013
- What’s New This New Year?
- Being Responsible- A Story of Two Men
- Empty Suitcase
- Complicity: A Christmas Story
- Joy to the World!
- Is This Christmas, Mama?
- Survival Tips for Holidays with Difficult People, AKA, Home for the Holidays!
- Beauty of the Season? Really?
- For the Beauty of the Earth…
- His Day Is Done
- Another Reason for the Season
- The Real War on Christmas
- The Goal of World Community with Peace, Liberty, and Justice for All
- December
- Swimming Lessons
- The Pragmatic Believer
- Nelson Mandela
- Images, Imagination, and Iconoclasts
- Deep South
- A Unitarian Christmas
- The Gift of Receiving
- Receiving
- A Gratuitous Duck
- Gerda’s Raspberry
- From Your Minister
- The Careless Candle
- Giving and Receiving
- A Prayer for the Day After Thanksgiving
- Tornados, Typhoons, and Straw Dogs: Giving Thanks With Some Thinking
- In the Need of Prayer
- Where Were You When…?
- The Four Yogas and Transcendental Humanism
- Playing Together
- Living History: How JFK’s assassination woke me up
- Songs that Save Us
- The Playground Atheist Looks Back
- Let Us Take Care of Each Other
- How Sisyphus Got It Right
- Anything I can do, We can do better…
- What — and who — is Remote?
- A Confession
- Healing of Memories
- Morality: It’s About Hopping Out of That Tree
- Raking Leaves
- The Lights of Diwali, and Also the Dark
- The Language of Faith
- Pie with Spirits
- CLF Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- Tie Tack
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Remember
- Memory
- Run Away! Run Away! Fear and the Problem of Progressivism
- Messy & Beloved? Yes.
- In The Waiting Time
- To Becoming Silent
- A Garden Prayer
- Here an Ist, There an Ist, Everywhere an Ist-Ist
- Reflections on death from the garden
- Who does your heart break for?
- The ABCs of Extortion
- Together
- America…Where Do We Begin?
- Swimming in the Christian Waters (or: Beware, You May be a Humanist)
- Ideology
- Sustainable Empathy
- Do You Remember When?
- On the Mend: Brokenness and Healing
- Vulnerability and Compassion
- Facing Vulnerability
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- The Transformation of Silence
- Vulnerability
- Rejoice?
- Yuri Yamamoto
- Travis Wernet – aka “Outlaw Dervish”
- Amy Carol Webb
- Rabbi Danielle Upbin
- Three Twelve
- Lisa Thiel
- Diane Taraz
- Sweet Honey In the Rock
- Liz Story
- Bill Staines
- Jason Shelton
- Jim Scott
- Dan Schatz
- Sally Rogers
- Suzzy and Maggie Roche
- Doug Robinson
- Ann Reed
- Jennifer Pratt-Walter
- Polyphonic Spree
- Sarah Pirtle
- Nick Page
- Mineko Ogata
- Holly Near
- Linda Myers
- Paul McAuliffe
- Peter Mayer
- Sarah Dan Jones
- Clif Hardin
- Adam Gardner and Dave Schneider = THE LEEVEES
- Gina Forsyth
- Ferron
- emma’s revolution
- Ellis
- Lisa Downing
- Cathy DeWitt
- Seeing, from the Cheap Seats
- Bil Cusack
- Steve Crump
- Lui Collins
- Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
- Namoli Brennet
- Ysaye Barnwell
- Meg Barnhouse
- The Endless Seconds of Good
- Autumn Light, Surprise
- Jon Arterton and James Mack
- WTF?
- AGAPE* (Dave Scherer)
- Who’s In and Who’s Out of Institutions (and the immigrants between)
- A Better Choice
- Reflections on Global Suicide Prevention Day
- Season of Forgiveness
- And Now, Introducing…Food
- Bombing Again? But It’ll Work This Time!
- None of the Above
- A Month of Weddings
- On Going to Church (Excerpt)
- All Our Relations
- Who Knows You?
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Reunion
- Community
- September = Back to….
- Dancing The Real
- Today
- Naming the Ultimate, Part Two
- Heroes
- Culture Shift
- Welcome To This Broken World, Sweetheart (2013)
- Naming the Ultimate, Part One
- UU Verbs
- Weathering
- Forty Seven Weddings and a Funeral
- Red Light, Green Light, Slow Year, Fast Year
- Free Will, Fate, and Destiny: A Humanist Perspective
- Keep the Faith!
- America’s God (a lullaby)
- Dreaming in Circles
- The Light of the Faith
- Embodied Justice, Embodied Speech
- How Many Summers Left?
- My Covenant with All That Is
- Stand Your Ground
- A Prayer for those Whose Hearts are on Fire
- O Parenting: You Humble Me
- But Where’s the Woo-Woo?
- Almost Heaven
- Weeding Out Racism
- Freedom . . . for Which?
- Clarity of Hindsight
- Finding True Identity
- Possibilities and Limits
- Solemn Te Deum for Peace
- From Your Minister
- Thank You!
- On Living (Part I)
- Vision
- Storms and Solidarity
- Beautiful Wordlessness
- Arguing Over the Light
- What it Means
- They Walk Into the Place Where (a reflection on immigration)
- When Worlds Collide
- Doing It All…A Little Bit.
- Here, In This Flow
- A People of Promise
- Into the Summer Daze
- Our Place in the Alhambra
- Courage
- Finding Life in the Land of Death
- Dancing into the Heart of God
- Annual Meeting
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- In My Own Worst Season
- Rebirth
- Incarceration Nation
- Role Camera
- On Keeping Up
- Benediction for the Wind (on the occasion of a killer tornado)
- Acts of God
- Compassion and Connection
- A Bad Day for Theocracy (14 May 2013, marriage equality Minnesota)
- Consent
- Creating Life
- Who Decides What Is “Value-Added?”
- A Former Member Asks the Minister for a Favor
- For Mother’s Day
- Prayers for the Possible
- “You’re Keeping That?”
- Softballing with Spinoza
- For You Were a Stranger in Egypt
- The Adventure of Creativity
- The Garden of Eden
- Where I Come From is Like This
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Another Kind of Knowledge
- Creation
- Not Avoiding Forests, Though They Have All Those Trees
- Elegy for April 22 and Richie Havens
- Where Danger Lurks
- Looking for Words that Help
- SHINE
- Hunting Only for Kindness
- National Poem In Your Pocket Day #pocketpoem
- We Don’t Know
- TODAY!
- Help: We All Need Somebody, Sometime
- Bodhidharma Proposes to the Wall
- What We Measure
- Signs of New Life
- The People’s Work
- A is for…Afebrile.
- Serious Life
- Swimming in the Deep End: Merging with the River
- On Mortality
- On Mortality
- Listening For Our Song
- Making a Fist
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- REsources for Living
- Everything We Need
- Awakening
- There Is No Failure But Not To Try
- Yes, Sweetie, Your Mama’s An Atheist…Minister. It Happens. Now, About This Sunday…
- Holy Week Return
- Before the Court
- Longing for the Weeds
- Commentary on “A Veteran’s Day Confession for America”
- Suprised by Joy: the Gift of Forgiveness
- Ordinary Time
- Apophatic Project
- A Balancing Act
- Beauty Today
- What’s (Not) To Worry About?
- Why I am a Unitarian Universalist
- Smoke Signals
- Relationship First
- Abolitionist Ministry
- Thank you, Rhoda Morgenstern!
- …born and re-born again
- Freedom and Responsibility
- Reintegration
- Reintegration
- This Is What’s Happening
- Doubt, the Scurry
- Good Guys and Bad Guys
- Waiting for Snow in Carlisle
- Being and Doing, Work and Spiritual Practice
- High Resolve
- Freedom Is a Funny Word
- Laughing into New Life (Excerpt)
- The Flying Trapeze and the Fine Art of Freedom (Excerpt)
- Carrying the Language of Freedom
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- From “For Memory”
- Freedom
- Subtile Body
- Standing on Principle
- Paying Attention Again
- Seeds
- Duty and Service
- When there is too much to do…
- Hats & Maps
- Kinds of Love
- Collective Joy!
- Beyonce at Half-Time
- Recipe for Grief
- A God We Can Believe In
- People Ask About God (Excerpt)
- If I Were Asked
- Sun/God
- A Prayer
- Reflections on God
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Touching our Strength
- God
- Pro-Life/Pro-Choice
- Faith to Live, Faith to Die
- A Prayer for Those Grieving Someone Who Was Difficult in Their Lives
- Guns: Relationship Status: “It’s complicated.”
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Like-Hearted People
- A Prayer for Birthmothers, Not in an Open Adoption
- A Place in the Family
- We Are All In This Together
- What Do We Owe?
- A Heretic Mulls Over Epiphany
- Joyful Epiphany
- Happy New Year!
- Dragged Kicking and Screaming into Heaven
- Salvation: Saved from What?
- An African American Perspective on Salvation
- Saved by Love (Excerpt)
- From Your Minister
- Salvation
- REsources for Living
- Salvation
2012
- What a Day for a Daydream!
- Love & Grief: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- For So the Children Come
- What Makes Us Safe
- Invocation in a time of sorrow
- The Day After Newtown: Finding Our Way
- Making Meaning of a Random Universe
- “Guns Don’t Kill People”
- YOU GOT PEOPLE
- Ready for Christmas
- Impatiently Waiting to Patiently Wait
- Love and Marbles
- The Christmas List
- Waiting and Fulfillment
- Waiting as an Act of Faith
- Waiting
- Expectant Fathers
- Solstice Reflection
- I Am Waiting
- Carol Our Christmas
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- In the Fog
- Waiting
- On Abundance
- Do What You Would Ususally Do Wednesday
- Spiritual Lessons from the Passenger’s Seat
- A Different Thanksgiving
- Grateful, even so
- Drama
- Moving On
- A Veteran’s Day Confession for America
- Welcome Home, Seanan
- How to Vote as an Act of Prayer
- Democracy and faith
- Voting as Spiritual Practice, as a Neighborly Act…
- Salvation
- The Way of Tea
- To Whom it May Concern:
- God or the Horse?
- The Versatility and Power of Prayer (Excerpt)
- Prayer
- CLF Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Prayer
- Prayer
- Masks — A Poem for Halloween
- A Prayer in Stormy Weather
- What God Intends
- We Do Not Fear People Whose Stories We Know…
- Prayer for the Warrior’s Return
- Fireworks
- Love Is the Spirit of This Church
- What Isn’t Said
- The Connection of Church and State
- Moving Toward Home
- Belonging as a Military Spouse
- Embracing the Soul to Heal War’s Pain
- When the Chaplain Gets Killed
- In 1492…
- Thoughts on Death and Lasagna
- Endurance
- That’s What Bearing Witness Is…
- Streets to Dwell In
- Pledging Our Troth
- Behaving, Believing, Belonging
- From Your Minister
- Ambiguity
- Belonging
- Whose Are You?
- Belonging
- Be Here Later, or Be There Now?
- Yes. Thank you. I love you.
- Prejudice is Part of Human Nature
- Preparing the Warrior Spirit
- Responsibility
- A Grandson’s Rage
- Judge Not…
- The Noblest Deed
- Soul Care
- Hope Springs: Vulnerability and Longing
- Violence Begets Violence
- Grief and Atonement
- Come In and Sing!
- That Precarious Gait
- All In This Together
- Savoring autumn days
- Motivations
- Pro-Life
- Run for Your Life!
- Taking Ownership
- Friends: The Spice of Life
- Turn, Turn, Turn
- The Place We Require of Humans
- “Keep open the door of thy heart”
- Jerusalem
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Pillar of Salt (Excerpt)
- Atonement
- Worship as Emotive Experience
- The Cost of Speaking
- Hating Hateful Haters
- All’s Fair
- Legitimacy
- Thinking too Hard
- Real vs. Manufactured Outrage
- The Mean Season
- What’s Behind the Spin?
- Games Without Frontiers
- Imperfect Being, Seeking Balance
- In solidarity with our Sikh sisters and brothers
- Olympics Fever
- August: The Year’s Midlife Crisis
- Fantasy? Myth?
- Dancing with Scripture
- Spending Your Values
- Every Jot and Tittle
- Grief and Flapjacks
- Context and interpretation
- Holding to the Wrong Anchor
- The Meaning of Faith
- More, More, More!
- A Response to “Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?”
- Comfort ye, my people
- Quotes and Images – beautiful
- Being Good for Nothing
- It Could Have Been Otherwise
- Tears of Joy
- Grieving the Loss of Marines
- Going to the Movies
- On Being a Murphyist
- Looking Back to Look Forward
- “The” Indefinite Article
- Joy
- Rational Exuberance
- Happy Bird
- Happiness
- The Great Surmise
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- From Blossoms
- Joy
- Reason and Passion in Public Discourse
- A Direction of the Heart
- The New Face of Courage
- Fear and Love at Tent City
- A Moving Experience
- The Problem with Evil
- Summer Solstice
- Saying Goodbye
- Through the Roof
- Improv to Improve
- Is Anything “Meant To Be?”
- Hold On to Your Hats: All of Unitarian Universalist History in Sixteen Minutes
- Why We Don’t Get Along
- The Best of the Oldest Dead White Males
- Shooting the Albatross
- Asking for Wonder
- What Really Matters
- A Transcendent Bit of Yarn
- A Transcendent Bit of Yarn
- Keeping On Though Not Yet
- “I didn’t say it was fair, I said it was the law.”
- Paying Attention
- Human Kindness
- June in Afghanistan
- May in Afghanistan
- Mortar at Midnight and a Mongoose
- The Other Side of the World
- A Prayer for the Caregivers
- A Personal Relationship with God
- Summer and Sabbath
- A Case For Religion
- How to be evangelist
- Spiritual Drought & Restoration
- Getting Out of Our Own Way Faithfully
- Haunting Conversations
- Flower Communion
- Making Room for Silence
- The Transcendent Within
- The God Beyond
- Transcending Boundaries
- Oppression
- Notice of Annual Meeting
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Walking (Excerpt)
- Transcendence
- A Prayer for the Overwhelmed
- Who Would Jesus Fence Off?
- On Being a Beginner Again
- Give It All Away! Wisdom of the plants
- Sex and War: Thoughts on Memorial Day Weekend
- Prayers for Those Who Love Soldiers
- Safe Harbor
- The Meaning of Memorial Day
- What Kind of a Parent is God?
- Paying Tribute
- The Exquisite Joy of Being Miserable
- Holy Curiosity
- Whatever You Decide Is Perfect
- Changing Your Wiper Blades
- Still Mulling Over Mitt Scissorhands
- A Wild Patience
- The Intersections of Privilege
- Professionalism and Pluralism in the Military Chaplaincy
- Justice for Military Families
- Justice for Military Families
- Inferno of the Living
- Restoring Justice
- Justice Should Be a Thing of the Past
- Women
- Hands
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- The Resting Place (Excerpt)
- Justice
- Transformation Through Autism
- Becoming a Military Wife
- Becoming a Military Wife
- Life Unfolding: Transformation
- Life Unfolding: Transformation
- Transformation Is
- Tapping Transformation
- Season of Mud
- Reaching Beyond
- Where Do We Go From Here? (Excerpt)
- Hansel and Gretel
- Kindness
- What Are We Missing?
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Spring
- Transformation
- Growing Our Hearts Wings
- Broken Expectations
- Mom Did the Best She Could in Her Brokenness
- The Gift in the Brokenness
- Bringing a Child into this Broken World
- The Engaged Soul
- What’s Broken is Brilliant
- Come, Ye Disconsolate
- How Does Our Faith Hold Brokenness?
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- The Cup of Our Life
- Brokenness
- Welcoming Color in a World of White
- A Lump in My Throat
- Hospitality: Tuning Into Our Neighbors
- The Company We Keep: Hospitality and Mutuality
- To Be Seen
- Hospitality at Our Borders
- The Fine Art of the Good Guest
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Descent into JFK
- Hospitality
- Living Faith in the Light of Racism
- Faitfhful Risk for Living Faith
- Nothing Short of Evangelism
- Feeding Faith
- The Marker’s Meaning
- We Are All About Saving Souls
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Birdfoot’s Grampa
- Living Faith
- How Do I Live a Good Life?
2011
- Hope and Assurance
- Reflections on Job Loss
- You Are the Light of the World
- Hope: The Theology of Despair
- Hope and Sorrow
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter
- Hope
- Whiteness: Revelations on the Journey to Multicultural Community
- The Journey to Marriage Equality
- Losing a Job
- Earth and Spirit: Belonging to the Earth
- Alcoholism
- Claiming Atheism
- Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence
- Living with Mental Illness
- Wedding Ceremonies
- Weddings 101
- Realities of a New Baby
- A Child in the Hospital
- Accepting Help
- Suicide of a Loved One
- Facing Fear
- Diagnosis of Mental Illness
- Illness and Chronic Pain
- Parenting a Child with Autism
- Living in a Multi-Racial Family
- Incarcerated Family Member
- Meeting Alzheimer’s: Companionship for Caregivers
- Parenting a Child with a Life-Altering Illness or Condition
- Missing God
- The Spiritual Act of Complaining
- Surviving Suicide
- The Deep Thanksgiving of Our Souls
- To Be Joyfully Determined
- Aspects of Gratitude
- CLF Nominating Committee Seeks Leaders
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Blessing
- Thanks! You Did It!
- Memorial Services
- Coming of Age
- Baby/Child Dedications
- Coming Out in a Conservative Family
- Divorce
- After the Disaster
- Responding to Trauma Across the World
- The Challenge of Being “All of the Above”
- Parenting Gender-Nonconforming Children
- Gratitude
- A Quest for Integrity
- The Quest that Brought Me Here
- Loss of a Spouse/Partner
- On Pilgrimage
- The Art of Walking
- Prophesy from the Hopi Nation
- Prodigal Songs
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Another Kind of Knowledge (Excerpt)
- Quest
- A Pattern So Vast
- Finding Our Place in the World
- The stories we tell…
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Indian Boy Love Song #1
- Forgiveness
- Money, Anxiety and Abundance
- The Stretcher and the Swan
- Summer
- Dog Days
- The Wellspring of Decency
- Gratitude
- Abundant Life
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Life is so Generous a Giver
- Abundance
- Amazing Grace
- Grace Happens
- The Grace of a Bungee Jump
- From Pens and Postage to the Digital Age
- REsources for Living
- Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC
- Grace
- Gratitude
- That Would Suffice
- Gratitude
- Humanizing Mom
- Rev. Meg to be Installed as CLF Senior Minister
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- O Women of America!
- The Impossible and the Laughable
- Prayer 101
- Finding Healing Through the Mail
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Mending
- Healing
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- Spiritual Courage
- Finding the Blessing
- Never Too Late
- From Your Minister
- REsources For Living
- Courage
- Courage
- Love
- Friend
- Standing on the Side of Love
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
- Love First
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Love Dogs
- Apple Eyes
- Born Again… and Again… and Again
- The Heat Wave
- From Your Minister
- REsources for Living
- Burning the Old Year
- Change
2010
- This is a test
- A Post without Image
- Jewish & Christian Heritage for Adolescents (14-18)
- UU Identity for Adolescents (14-18)
- Social Justice for Adolescents (14-18)
- World Religions for Adolescents
- Helping Children with Allowances and Savings
- Background for "What do UUs believe about God?"
- Are some people just bad?
- What do UUs believe?
- Do all UUs believe the same thing?
- Principle One Bingo
- The Story of the Birth of Jesus
- The Story of Buddha
- Who was Buddha? What do Buddhists Believe?
- "The Flaming Chalice"
- "Why do we light a chalice?"
- Background for Christmas Story
- Why do we go to church on Christmas Eve?
- Have people always gone to church?
- The Colors of Easter: A Read and Draw Story
- A Covenant for Kids
- What happens when you die?
- Developmental Information
- Why do people look so different?
- Discussion Questions
- Does everything die?
- Background for What is Easter?
- Family Stewardship
- Background for "God is Like a Father"
- A Free People
- The Gift of Color
- God is Like a Father
- Background for "Hide and Seek with God"
- What is God?
- God is in Each One of Us
- Hide and Seek with God
- Background for “The Mystery of God”
- The Mystery of God
- Background for "God is in Each One of Us"
- What do UUs believe about God?
- Background for "Being with God in Prayer"
- Being with God in Prayer
- What is the Golden Rule?
- The Grumps
- The Half-Boy of Borneo
- Background for Hannakah
- What is Hannukah?
- The Healing Cup
- How can I help the world?
- Jewish & Christian Heritage for Early Childhood
- A Hosanna Day
- "UUs Have Different Ideas About God"
- UU Identity for Early Childhood
- In-HEREnt Worth Game
- Background for "Who was Jesus?"
- The Birth of Jesus, A Story from Palestine
- Who was Jesus? What is Easter?
- Social Justice for Early Childhood
- The Lessons of Loss
- Let my people go
- "Mark and Paul"
- A Great Miracle
- Children, Money and Values: Ten Principles
- Background for Moses in the Bulrushes
- Background for Moses in the Burning Bush
- Background for "Let My People Go"
- Who was Moses?
- Moses in the Bulrushes
- Moses and the Burning Bush
- Who was Muhammad?
- The Story of Muhammad
- A Musician and His Trumpet: A Story from India
- Open Your Circle
- The Origins of Easter
- How can God be “our father?”
- Background for Passover
- What is Passover?
- How Are People Made?
- Why do people pray?
- Opening Activity about Prejudice
- What is prejudice?
- World Religions for Early Childhood
- What does “sacred” mean?
- Background for "What is a Saint?"
- What is a Saint? Do we have them?
- Are All Churches the Same?
- Background for Shabbat/Sabbath
- Conversation and Story for Sabbath
- The Very Short Rule: A Story from Palestine
- Why do people have different skin color?
- Background for "The Spirit of God"
- The Spirit of God is There When Someone Dies
- Why Sunday?
- Why do kids tease each other?
- Background for "The Ten Commandments"
- What are the Ten Commandments?
- The Ten Commandments
- UU Game
- Unitarian Universalist Saints
- Why Do We Go to Church?
- Some Wonderings of Our Own
- Words and Motions for Chalice Lighting
- Advent List of Activities
- Background for "What is Advent?"
- What is Advent?
- An Advent Celebration
- Beatitudes of Jesus
- Who tells UUs what to believe?
- Can you believe anything you want to as a UU?
- Background for Teachers
- Bible Trivia
- Are the stories in the Bible true?
- Bible Pictionary Background and Instructions
- Bible Pictionary Quotations
- The Birth of Buddha: A Story from India
- Buddha’s Teachings
- Do Buddhists go to church?
- Why do we light a chalice?
- The Chief of the Well
- The Children’s Crusade
- Our Christian Heritage
- The Birth of Confucius: A Story from China
- The Boy Who Collected Beetles
- Why do people have to die?
- How can kids make a difference?
- How are UU churches different from other churches?
- Meet the Characters on " The Dangerous Journey"
- Who owns water and air and the earth?
- Why do we celebrate Easter?
- Who are our enemies?
- Faith is the Gift of God
- What are some other famous things in the Bible?
- Why do we always talk about famous UUs?
- Who were the first Unitarians and Universalists?
- If I Were a Founder…
- Free to Believe
- Why do we have funerals?
- Guided Mediation
- Jewish & Christian Heritage for Middle Childhood
- Hinduism
- UU Identity for Middle Childhood
- Middle Childhood Answer Section
- Frequently Asked Questions about ISLAM
- Background for Teachers for "Was Jesus really born on Christmas?"
- Was Jesus really born on Christmas?
- Jonah and the Large Fish
- Social Justice for Middle Childhood
- Krishna, Champion of the Oppressed
- Looking for The Truth
- The Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6: 9 – 13)
- What is the Lord’s Prayer?
- Marlene’s Stamp Album
- What is meditation? What does “spiritual” mean?
- Mindfulness Exercise
- "My Friend the Monster"
- The Preacher, the Farmer, and the Little Church That Waited
- What’s the difference between Islam and Muslim?
- The Mustard-Seed Medicine
- Exploring — Meditative Nature Walk
- The Four Noble Truths
- What does it mean that “peace begins with me?”
- Do UUs pray?
- Make-Your-Own Prayer Bead Bracelets
- The Unitarian Universalist Principles and Purposes in Simplified Language
- Psalm 23, A Psalm of David
- Background for Teachers, "The Psalms"
- World Religions for Middle Childhood
- What makes something religious?
- The Road to Olelpanti
- Actual excerpts from The Scopes Trial
- Two Selfish Kings
- 10 Tips for Taking Social Action
- Statements About Spirituality
- A Spring Haggadah–Telling Stories
- LIST OF STAMPS and their NUMBERS
- Stefania’s Story
- What does stereotype mean?
- Used-to-Thinks
- What do I say when someone asks me, “What do UUs believe?”
- Can UU Kids Pray?
- Is war ever right?
- What Am I?
- Story and Craft: Who Owns the Well?
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