Living with Intention… In a Faith Community Reflecting back to my beginnings as a Unitarian Universalist 15 years ago, I ask myself what it was that drew me in. This month’s theme has certainly helped to clarify that. Often I would say, as a young mother, that I joined the UUCL community because “I just…

Happy New Year! I’m curious to know, how are you starting off this new year? Have you made resolutions, plans, goals? Do you feel a renewed sense of hope? Are you energized? Or, are you unsure, cautiously entering another year? Are you already tired out? How is your heart, your emotional energy, your spirit? What…

On the 5th Day of Christmas (that’s today, December 29th!)… “Five golden rings” may now be ringing through your head. And then you may ask, aren’t the 12 Days of Christmas before December 25th? And indeed, no they are not. December 25th starts the first day of Christmas and then each of the days after…

Merry Solstice! Winter Solstice Blessing By Eric Williams With faithful progress, The Great Sun has traveled, From north to south again, And on this day pauses. So we also stand still, With the whole Earth, In quiet thankfulness, To the Source of Blessing, The Giver of All Light. So we also stand still… The ancestors…

When societal norms and popular culture become harmful to us and the earth, we can resist by protesting, boycotting, and creating different ways of living. How do we resist when our spirit feels crushed or oppressed and the joy squeezed out of it? This is what 14th Century Persian poet Hafiz wrote about in his…

Twas the day before the semester ends And all through my house Are piles of books on theology… And there’s no time for rhyming as I wonder, who the heck is going to do the dishes and the laundry? I’m in the middle of writing my “constructive theology” paper. It’s one of those tasks that…