People who aren't neurodiverse tend to frame neurodiversity as symptoms of inconvenience to people around them. For me, my ADHD means beauty.

Spirit of the divine masculine, grant us the strength to nurture in ourselves, and in every young person we have the privilege to know, the gifts of patience, curiosity, and compassion.

When someone lists Unitarians or Universalists, they usually name white men. Never anyone Black like me.

If you’re seeking sacred Black “text” in our tradition, you have to examine the way our Black ancestors lived.

Just as I can believe in others, I also believe in me.

May this flag inspire us to live with pride, to embrace our truths, and to unite in the face of adversity.

You can’t be a Unitarian Universalist and believe anything you want.

I would have loved it as a kid to have a church that encouraged us to listen to our heartfelt yearning of self.

This chalice is for the living, the changing, the becoming.

Today we celebrate the new name that reflects a truth long-hidden, now revealed.

May we be our descendants’ bravest heroes, keepers of the flame.

Food carries the love, wisdom, and stories of survival of a people.

If we believe in the promise of our faith, we must continue pushing forward.

We are part of the connective tissue that holds the legacy and future of our faith.

Change can be uncomfortable. Like any time we learn a new technology, it can take a little while to adjust.

I wasn’t really “born this way.” I grew this way.

Coming out is vulnerable, intimate, and holy.

Can we find space for lifting our heads in wonder—that we’re still striving, still trying together

May you feel the freedom to stretch fully into your most true self.

We have to keep finding ways to widen the circle of care and concern.

The spiritual touchstones I trust are found in community.

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

We could have assimilated but instead / we rededicate

May the rainbow of love enfold you; may your fluidity never be hindered.

When disability is understood as dependency, disability is posited in direct contrast to American ideals of independence and autonomy.

Disability is often elusive and changing.

Every creature is an embodiment of the Love of the Universe.

Spirit of Life who dwells before and between and beyond all words… we open ourselves to you.

I was leaving my mom in another world, located far away from mine.

Shame seems to be a bestselling product pumped out of all these crushing systems.

Dear Creative Life Force, the infinite healing power of creativity is the best gift you've given to us.

Help me live in gratitude for the LGBTQ+ ancestors who paved this road we walk and roll on.

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

To be a Unitarian Universalist means we’ll never be done with the work.

I do not believe the acts of oppressors are my people's shame.

The drag show was heaven broken open, given to us for the evening. Everything for a little while was perfect—and I saw the face of my God.

Note: Rev. Margaret Weis invites you to replace "church" with "congregation" or "Fellowship" if that feels most appropriate for your community. The church is not a place; it is a people. The church is not only a steeple above the treeline, streets, and cars....

Ironically, Americans who self-identify as not racist—whether they're conservatives, moderates, liberals, radicals, progressives—they don't realize… that we are connecting ourselves to a history of slave traders who self-identified as not racist (although they didn't use that term). We're...

When you’re the only black man in a sea of whiteness, purses still get clutched, and people still cross the street, and hellos still get lost in the void.

The first time I was told that I was too queer to be a congregation's minister, they asked, "What will the neighbors think?,” as if it were the most natural question in the world. It was then that I understood how grace works: it’s costly. It requires us to be uncomfortable, to get outside...

In the Bible, there’s a pretty well-known story about David and Goliath. Goliath, a huge warrior from the side of the Philistines, challenged someone from the side of the Israelites to battle. David was chosen and he knew that even with all of the armor in the world, he would not be able to win...

Coming out to my family was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. I realized that my choice was one of life and death, and I needed to let my secret out in order to continue living, and to do so authentically.

The road not taken is not a fork. That’s too simple a thought, flipping some coin. Either/or. Nope. It’s not this or that. No or yes. It’s nor/ neither and all of the above and more. The road taken goes every way at once. There. There. They. Them. Go. Now. Live.

You matter. There is no one like you; never will be again, from the birth of the earth to its outermost end. You — an eager shout, a sacred “Yes!” that moves your flesh, your bone, your breath. You— she, he, ze, they, you are whole and okay, gracefully teaching your truth and your way. You...

A common "issue" in anti-racism work is the use of the term culture of white supremacy or white supremacy culture, which many people view as charged, controversial, or even deeply offensive. Sometimes there are even challenges/dismissals from people in positions of power/authority about it....

Reader 1: In 1637, the white settlers in what was to become the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, wanted to start a church. What they longed for was sincere religious association based in love, and founded in freedom. Reader 2: The idea of a free church took shape among the people—a church whose...

This ritual entails having an empty vase on the altar, and cut flowers. It's especially meaningful to have founders or other "pillars" of the congregation have flowers with them in the service, and to have the congregation's children bring those flowers forward and put them in the vase (perhaps...

By no means are we [Unitarian Universalists] perfect; we often fail as much as we succeed. Yet even when "we have broken our vows a thousand times,"* we return to this essential work of justice and liberation for all. We do the work best when we remember what church is and what it is not....

It is time to throw out our exceptional identity and humble ourselves... We have always done good in the world—it is in our DNA. The question is, are we ready to do better for our own people? Because the world includes every person in our faith—many of whom have been micro-aggressioned right out...

"We are the people who return to love like a North Star and to the truth that we are greater together than we are alone." —Rev. Theresa Soto, in "We Hold Hope Close" I spend a lot of my Saturday evenings feeling awkward at wedding receptions, because most guests don’t want to talk to The...