What can I say about the “practice of freedom” that hasn’t been done—as in, reflected in and through actions—by all of you this past week? You showed up for freedom—for yourselves and for one another. You marched, you sang, you listened, you spoke up, you organized, you cheered, you supported, you gathered, you committed, you…

It’s Polk Pride Week 2025. I always appreciate this time of year as a time to regather some joy and build community. But I have to say that this year feels unsettlingly different. Peaceful protests are being met with violent backlash from our current administration. It simultaneously stirs up the courage to be bolder, louder,…

What an absolute blessing it was to create with and participate in a worship service with our children and youth! I noticed many ways we were practicing freedom together—giving them courage by listening carefully as they spoke bravely from the pulpit, participating in the activities they wanted to share with us, being curious and asking…

This week, I am sharing a poem with you from our Soul Matters resource. It’s one I haven’t been able to fit into a service this month as we’ve explored the Practice of Imagination. I really love this poem and it is quite a thing to imagine! I wonder…what if? But what if we could…

Let us imagine ourselves into a new way of being. This is a good time of year, before the restful summer lull sets in, to assess how we did this year at UUCL. And by “we” I mean YOU—each of you as individuals. The usual questions of “what went well” and “where can I improve”…

Quote by adrienne maree brown in her book, Emergent Strategy: “We are in an imagination battle. Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and Renisha McBride and so many others are dead because, in some white imagination, they were dangerous. And that imagination is so respected that those who kill, based on an imagined, radicalized fear of…