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 

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