Meg Barnhouse

Meg Barnhouse is a minister serving the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg, South Carolina, author of The Rock of Ages at the Taj Mahal and co-author of The Best of Radio Free Bubba. She is a commentator for North Carolina Public Radio and can occasionally be heard on NPR’s “Weekend All Things Considered”.

From Meg Barnhouse

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We gather to worship, our hearts alive with hope that here we will be truly seen, that here we will be welcomed into the garden of this community, where the simple and the elegant, the fluted and frilled, the shy and the dramatic complement one another and are treasured....

Welcome | By Meg Barnhouse | March 16, 2016 | From WorshipWeb

How my congregation in Austin, Texas, decided to give sanctuary to an LGBT activist facing deportation.

By Meg Barnhouse | September 28, 2015 | From UU World

Today I have too many friends who are dying. Sometimes at a memorial service I feel dissatisfied, and I’m the preacher in charge. I realize I can’t figure out how to preach my view of resurrection. I know that people would want to hear it, I’m not worried about offending or confusing anyone. I...

Meditation | By Meg Barnhouse | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Our locks tell us a lot about our lives. Locks of all kinds hold my attention because of a dream I had when I was thirteen. In the dream a gray-haired woman in a white coat sat behind a desk. I knew she was me, far in the future. Behind her on the wall was a cross-stitched sampler with a motto. I...

Meditation | By Meg Barnhouse | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

I have learned some things about life from canoes. I’m not saying I know how to paddle. I have been in canoes twice, and both have been learning experiences. The second time was fun. The first time, a friend and I decided to take one out on a lake. We slid the canoe into the water. She hopped in.

Meditation | By Meg Barnhouse | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

All summer, workers have been building a brick wall along the road by my neighborhood. Against the brutal heat, they stretch a tarp overhead to get a little shade. I’ve watched them take bricks in their dusty brown hands one by one, butter them thickly with mortar, line them up, and tap them...

Meditation | By Meg Barnhouse | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Dear God, May I be kind, Strong and brave, Joyful, useful, loving, Honest and healthy.

Prayer | By Meg Barnhouse | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

I faced my fears and they faced me. It wasn't that big a deal.

By Meg Barnhouse | January 11, 2015 | From UU World

My faith is in science, but I try to keep an open mind.

By Meg Barnhouse | October 19, 2014 | From UU World

Do we try too hard to grasp joy when it comes?

By Meg Barnhouse | August 4, 2014 | From UU World

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