Wow! Wow! Wow! Y’all, the very first Thanksgiving Worship Service of the Interfaith Coalition of Polk County was a great success. My heart is overflowing with gratitude this morning. We had a full house– Dorothy and Ken counted 97 people! Pastor Mel accompanied us with her beautiful piano playing, Rabbi Goldstein offered us wisdom and…

Today (Monday) I am attending two meetings: One for the Polk Teen Pregnancy Prevention Alliance’s “Festival of Faith” planning. The other is with Rabbi Goldstein to work on the land acknowledgment for the interfaith Thanksgiving service. Yesterday, I attended the Red Tent board meeting. And thus, I write only briefly to offer you this thought…

“Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.” – Rebecca Solnit “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’” – William A.…

We in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even. Many people may rightly say, “I had…

We have been having some rich conversations on heritage this month, from food and family to our cultural heritage as Unitarian Universalists and as Americans. But I am most excited to discuss our local UU heritage with you as I uncover it in the archival material both here in our Lakeland Public Library and from…

Yesterday I told a couple stories of Universalist history– of our connection to Spiritualism and about the beginnings of Universalism in Lakeland. If you missed it, you can watch here: Oddly enough, when I started seminary, I dreaded the thought of having to take the UU History and Polity course. I think history classes in…