"When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've…
Sermons
“Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.” ~ Rumi READING The Guest House JELALUDDIN RUMI, TRANSLATION BY COLEMAN BARKS This being human is a guest house.…
Kindness is a strength, a superpower that has the capacity to transform lives and change the world. ~ Donna Cameron READING ~ from A Year of Living Kindly, Choices That…
“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.” ~William Ellery Channing READING ~ from William Ellery Channing's public faith by Jack Mendelsohn in UU WORLD, March/April, 2005. To Channing, the…
The sea is where all life begins The ocean is our origin If she dies, nothing survives, No nothing can, nothing can And who will look with awe upon the…
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose…
In the spirit of those who fought the State outside of the Stonewall Inn in 1969, we need to be more radical about righting what has been oh-so-wrong for too…
Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid…
Your name travels ahead of you like a portent of things to come, a thing from which others make assumptions about people. READING ~ Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo -“Where…
READING “The Meaning of Memorial Day” (excerpt) by Rev. David Pyle, Chaplain, U.S. Army Reserve and member of the UUA Congregational Life Staff, New England Region It began as “Decoration…
