Sometimes it is hard to tap into our spiritual selves or find time to nurture our intellectual curiosity. Here is a section that reflects on some nourishing materials from around the web and related media channels in order to get us thinking, get us feeling, and get us reflecting on the lives we are living in this big, beautiful world. **Some Adult/Mature Themes May Appear in Links and Other Attached Material**

Cliffs Notes for This Year’s Adult Religious Education.

Since this past Fall, we’ve completed a year under a new way to do religious education, and we’ve had an extraordinary year in which more adults have taken part in more programs than ever before. More than 50 seats were filled over 8 different sessions, and these courses have covered an EXTRAORDINARY range of things. So I thought I’d give some 1-sentence synopses of things that have been going on in the ARE-sphere this past year. So, if you have not participated in any of these courses this year, here’s some of what you missed.

Bail reform is one of the most important and efficacious ways to redress social injustice in NE Ohio.

Our hymnals are full of some of the richest and spiritually dynamic expressions in the UU tradition.

Navigating the diverse world religious traditions can help us understand what we each believe.

Navigating the diverse questions posed by religious and philosophical roots of UU-ism can help us understand what we each believe. 

Unitarian Universalism is more complex and dynamic than you might imagine. 

We should all listen to more hip hop music. 

Giving voice to our grief can become a powerful way of expressing our spiritual selves and bringing our commitment to justice to the wider world. 

How you imagine the world and/or universe came to be is the root out of which all kinds of religious and mythological traditions see the world and our place as human beings within it. 

Can I just say –– how awesome is this? What an amazing series of ideas. What a range of topics. What an array of questions to ask and to meditate upon and to consider from more than one angle. 

I couldn’t be more proud of our community and I couldn’t be more proud of our people for showing up, for staring down hard topics, for sitting with difficult questions, for making friends with topics that make us uncomfortable. And I’m so excited to continue building on what we’ve done this year, exploring new questions and pushing deeper into the one’s we’ve already asked.

Allan T. Georgia, M.Div., M.T.S., PhD