It’s easy for us to forget that people are inherently worthy. That our relationships are holy. That our connections are sacred. We get flooded with a lot of messages that … Continue reading Bonus Track: Our Holy Ground

When we think about our spiritual ancestors, we often select people we admire to include in that chosen family. Our spiritual ancestors might be theologians or organizers or community builders … Continue reading Bonus Track: Inheritances

Our response to what looks like brokenness in the world around us is often to protest it. We meet brokenness with righteous indignation. Things shouldn’t be this way! This is … Continue reading Bonus Track: Sometimes the Answer is Lament

If you were hoping that we’d have a clear answer on Sunday for how we live with uncertainty about big questions, you may have felt a bit unsatisfied with where … Continue reading Bonus Track: You Didn’t Answer My Question

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