One of the things often said about Unitarian Universalism is that we don’t pretend to have all the answers, but we embrace asking big questions. Sometimes we pretend to have … Continue reading Bonus Track: Living the Questions
You may not have been able to take in all the lessons from water everyone shared at our Water Ceremony a couple of Sundays back. Congregant Cynthia Bearer kindly offered … Continue reading Bonus Track: Lessons from Water
At our Water Ceremony, we invited people to consider what they had learned from water. As we brought water from a variety of places, we asked what lessons that specific … Continue reading Bonus Track: Re-Creating Ourselves (and the World)
Water Ceremony (or Water Communion) is a uniquely Unitarian Universalist ritual with roots in many diverse ceremonial practices. The first UU Water Ceremony was a part of the 1980 Women … Continue reading Bonus Track: What to Expect from a Water Ceremony
This Sunday’s service will continue to follow some threads of interdependence we’ve been weaving through the summer. I had intended to space out some weeks away throughout the summer months, … Continue reading Bonus Track: Away
Embracing the possibility that we can shift out of autopilot and choose new pathways is a powerful thing in and of itself. We might wonder, though: If we aren’t our … Continue reading Bonus Track: Off the Rails
We explored some lineages of things and ideas on Sunday. We barely even scratched the surface of theological evolutions. A lot of people in Unitarian Universalist spaces have encountered harmful … Continue reading Bonus Track: Theologies of Defining and Reclaiming
Although we explored on Sunday how our Unitarian Universalist values can guide us when there isn’t a clear pathway laid out in front of us, that doesn’t mean there are … Continue reading Bonus Track: In Praise of Paths
On Sunday, we dug into a story about a community that pledged their financial support for locally grown food—out loud, in a circle, in vulnerable relationship with one another. As … Continue reading Bonus Track: Next Time Around the Circle
Several people observed this Sunday how challenging it is to engage in open and curious listening as Parker Palmer suggests. And that’s precisely why we took some time in the … Continue reading Bonus Track: Every Conversation
