Yesterday, I said this: I am advocating for more shared sitting spaces–where we come together, greet each other in caring ways, adopt rituals that express love and have meaning, talk with one another and share ideas, eat and drink together, find sanity and ground ourselves together, acknowledging that the world outside is not normal. I…

Practicing Resistance: Every UUCL Committee can practice resistance! Yesterday, during our Message For All Ages, we talked a little bit about how hospitality is a practice of resistance. Providing food and drinks helps to make people feel welcome, but what more is there to hospitality? Welcoming the stranger in a time of fear and division…

How can I not choose hope? The joy that we experienced together yesterday was a catalyst for hope. Together, we gathered energy and resilience. We found goodness together which will support us in finding it out there in the world. It will inspire us to create goodness out there in a world that feels hardened…

Hello Everyone! I just want to give you a quick update on what’s going on with me: I pulled/strained/sprained a muscle in my lower back (I was only trying to put a lid on a bin! Turns out, it wasn’t even the right lid…isn’t that how things go sometimes?). I thought that I had been…

After yesterday’s service, I was reflecting on all the Generosity I witnessed flowing through our community. How grateful (and honored) I feel to be able to lead such a generous congregation, one that doesn’t just speak their values, but actually lives those values. That’s how we do it–that’s how we choose hope! It reminded me…

Greetings from Idaho! I have spent the past week here in Meridian, ID (outside of Boise) at my cousin’s house with my family. It has been a wonderful and heartwarming experience. I have had deep conversations with my cousin about our family (we’re planning a trip to Scotland to explore the places our ancestors came…