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Aesthetics and Morals: Making Poetic Principles
We generally think of our personal choices as be either aesthetic or moral choices: Do I wear blue or green today? Do I donate my dollar to the children’s hospital or the homeless shelter? We think of the appeals to what is “good” morally and … read more.
Water Communion
The Water Communion is one of only a few UU traditions which has been celebrated for forty years. After the hot summer, we share some of the water, the source of life, we have saved from our journeys this year. We combine our waters here … read more.
Family Stories by Rev Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
We are living in complicated times for families and particularly for youth. When family and social discord disrupts and threatens life, it is more than a social problem; it is a religious problem, one that calls people of faith to respond. Today we will contemplate … read more.
CARE OF THE SOUL, by Rev. Dr. Wayne Arnason
Most of us may agree that we seem to be more than the sum of our material, physical selves. The Rev. Dr. Wayne B. Arnason writes in today’s reading, Care of the Soul : “Our lives, our values, our sense of being at home in … read more.
Rev. James Reeb: What Is Required of Us?
On Monday, March 8, 1965, the day after Bloody Sunday, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King sent a telegram appeal to all faiths, urging clergy and all people of faith to come to Selma, Alabama to support their efforts of establishing equal voting rights. Rev. James … read more.
LGBT Rights: We Will Not Go Back!
These are frightening times. What we are seeing and hearing – who could have foreseen it? There were warnings, but they went mostly unheard. So I have two messages that may seem contradictory. First: please do not be naïve. Second: please do not despair. Naïveté … read more.
Welcome to the Temple
The body is the one thing in this world which is completely and intimately ours. Rather than engaging in a spirituality that denies the body, we can move closer to an experience of God here and now by fully engaging with the body. Our bodies … read more.
Two Friends, Three Cousins, One Poem: Anti-Asian Hate
Asian American responses to anti-Asian hate range from silence to flight, self-defense, and organizing. Dr. Deborah Wong reflects on the recent surge of anti-Asian violence in the US by sharing what my friends and family have said to me when we are in spaces … read more.
Neighboring Faiths: Nüwa, Goddess of Humanity
Where did we all come from? What does it mean to be human, and what is the human place in the universe? How does our perception of The Divine impact the practical life of people in our society? What’s up with all the snakes? These … read more.