This past Sunday, I was at the UU Church in St. Petersburg, FL. I really enjoyed my visit! I had the pleasure and privilege of sitting in the children’s RE class (this was for an assignment for my Faith Formation class). They were talking about courage and doing hard things. It got me asking myself,…

I had a delightful time yesterday cocreating this Sunday’s worship service with Maggie Colson! We spent some time exploring the different kinds of courage. The one that took some particular reflection was that of Spiritual Courage. What does Spiritual Courage look like? While Maggie will be presenting you with her own reflections on Sunday, I…

Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds.…

For this week and the next, I am reading about the history of congregational polity in one of my seminary classes. It’s more interesting than it might sound! Here’s the link to one of the readings: https://www.uua.org/files/documents/wrightconrad/congregationalpolity.pdf You could say that this history is much a history of belonging! One of the topics addressed in…

Love and connection were with us once again at last Wednesday night’s Dinner Worship. It is always a pleasure to get together over a meal and share our different perspectives. I wanted to place here, in the newsletter, the topic of conversation, for those of you who might be wondering just what it is we…

I am home from Chicago, where Meadville Lombard Theological School is located. I am feeling refreshed and energized! It was great to see the other seminarians again and I am taking two awesome classes this semester– UU History and Polity and Faith Formation in a Changing World. They are both required courses but I can…