In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world’s ordinary miracles. No mind or heart […]
Storytelling is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary…The storyteller is the truth-teller… […]
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin Easter, Passover, Ramazan, and Earth Day all grace April along […]
Inevitably in our lives we commit ourselves to something, whether worthy or not. The direction and intensity of our loyalties give shape and meaning to our lives. Loyalties, commitments, covenants, the promises we make to […]
Beloved Conversations is a faith-formation, anti-racism program that went virtual last fall, and more than 1,200 learners joined the first phase. UUSM is all-in for for the spring semester! This experience of connection and spiritual development is not to be missed. […]
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the […]
We tend to consider imagination too lightly, forgetting that the life we make, for ourselves individually and for the world as a whole, is shaped and limited only by the perimeters of our imagination. Things […]
Happy Holidays! “With mounds of greenery, the brightest ornaments, we bring high summer to our rooms, as if to spite the somberness of winter come. In time of want, when life is boarding up against […]
“A cheerful heart is good medicine…” — Proverbs 17:22 Dear Ones, There is much to be cheerful about in this season of giving thanks. The Lakers won their 17th NBA Championship. The turbulent election season […]
Our congregation is alive with so much activity at the beginning of the new church year. Our congregational theme for October is “deep listening.” Deep listening invites us to dive beneath the noise of pundits and politicians, 24-hour news cycles on television, and doom scrolling on social media, to listen more deeply to the sacred within our lives and in the world. […]
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