Tim Atkins

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Tim Atkins (he/him/his) serves as the Director of Lifespan Religious Exploration for the First Unitarian Church in Oklahoma City. He has previously served as the Director of Lifespan Religious Education at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda, MD and the Morristown (NJ) Unitarian Fellowship. He previously served as a UUA Trustee, the Church of the Larger Fellowship as their Director of Social Media, and as a youth advisor and Religious Education teacher at his former home congregation in Atlanta. He spends his spare time writing, playing board games, trying to change the world, and attempting to reason with his cat Dorothea.

From Tim Atkins

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I’m proud to belong to a living religious tradition that embraces evolution, both scientifically and spiritually.

Reflection | By Tim Atkins | January 4, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Beginnings, New Year, Spiritual Practice, Worship

What word might you use as your centering lodestar for 2022?

Reflection | By Tim Atkins | January 5, 2022 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Worship

What’s the one word you hope will define your upcoming year?

Reflection | By Tim Atkins | December 30, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Choice, Discernment, Identity, New Year, Spiritual Practice, Worship

One of my most treasured New Year’s traditions is coming up with a word for the year: a single word that I want to be the theme for my entire year. When I’m questioning what’s the right thing to do, I will look to my word of the year for guidance.

Reflection | By Tim Atkins | January 1, 2020 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Beginnings, Direct Experience, Integrity, Letting Go, New Year, Purpose, Spiritual Practice, Vision

There are so many spiritual lessons from the natural world and—in a season filled with Ingatherings and Water Communions—this is one for me: oxbow lakes as a beautiful combination of resiliency, strength, and flexibility.

Reflection | By Tim Atkins | September 11, 2019 | From Braver/Wiser
Tagged as: Beginnings, Direct Experience, Discernment, Earth, Earth-Centered, Environment, Homecoming / Ingathering, Journey, Nature, Power, Strength, Water Communion
Image | By Tim Atkins, Jessica Ferguson | February 9, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Food, Love, Playfulness, Valentine's Day
Image | By Tim Atkins, Jessica Ferguson | February 9, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Gratitude, Valentine's Day
Image | By Tim Atkins, Jessica Ferguson | February 9, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Agnosticism, Atheism, God, Gratitude, Love, Paganism, Playfulness, Unitarian Universalism, Valentine's Day
Image | By Tim Atkins, Jessica Ferguson | February 9, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Love, Playfulness, Valentine's Day, Work
Image | By Tim Atkins, Jessica Ferguson | February 9, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
Tagged as: Valentine's Day

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