Today, we are charged to remember. To know that as we live together in community, we are also in community with the silently singing lives in the vast congregation of the earth as well... Let us remember, and then act.

When we are engaged in acts of love, we humans are at our best and most resilient… If the goal was to increase the love, rather than winning or dominating a constant opponent, I think we could actually imagine liberation from constant oppression.

Disturbance opens the terrain for transformative encounters… Humanists, not used to thinking with disturbance, connect the term with damage. But disturbance, as used by ecologists, is not always bad—and not always human.

All organisms make ecological living places, altering earth, air, and water... In the process, each organism changes everyone’s world.

It takes courage to bring our trust forward and invite another person to meet us there. This sometimes sure, often shaky, surrender is an opportunity to discover something deeper than the confines of our individual experience.

The journey toward inner truth is too taxing to be made solo.

The fulcrum of the Earth tilts toward goodness and I will ride along…

The path of repentance is one that can help us not only to repair what we have broken, but to grow in the process of doing so.

A person is not entitled to forgiveness if they haven’t done the work of repair.

The work of repentance demands curiosity, care, and a willingness to face hard things with bravery and honesty.

Atonement is, in the framework of my tradition, something that happens in connection with the divine.

We need to summon the courage to cross the bridge...

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

In our lived lives, family comes in different shapes and sizes and constellations.It is in this variety—this diversity—that our lives are made fuller and our individual selves made more whole. It is in this variety, it is in this diversity, that we look back to the ancestors, recognizing no...

Is a calling a feeling of joy, of completeness in your work?

I don’t know exactly when it happened, but something began to change.

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.

Your spiritual quest begins now.

You are loved beyond your wildest imaginings by the spirit of creation.

Can we enfold other people in the way we long to be enfolded?

I didn’t know the human heart could hold so much love before I met this congregation.

The only way we survive this modern agony is together.

Can I love all of me, even the peevish parts?

I choose to believe in the God who makes me kinder.

Our family secret is soul-sucking depression.

We all want to feel at home, somewhere, somehow....

Pleasure is one of the ways we know when we are free.

Once, during my ministerial internship, a woman I’ll call Clara came up to me during the hustle and bustle before the Sunday service. I knew that Clara struggled with anxiety; now, in great distress, she told me how anxious she was and that she didn’t know what to do. She was frantic, and I...

People of faith are experts in human kindness.

People find hope in the faith that they're held by something larger than themselves.

Mental illness is a spiritual problem as well as a psychiatric one.

Mental illnesses are sometimes called “no-casserole diseases.” People don’t bring casseroles to homes where someone is hospitalized for mental problems.

In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival.

Cultures of gratitude must also be cultures of reciprocity.

Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all.

There’s never been a time in the United States history when black rebellions did not spark existential fear among white people.

The power to choose is the power of life in the midst of brokenness.

Water sustains, gives, and yields to / Life.

Love cannot fix everything, but it can keep us company.

Taking what we need and leaving the rest behind isn’t only a one time thing. We can do it anytime.

How white evangelicals became the most powerful voting bloc in the U.S. and the fuel of the American white supremacy engine.

When covenant / breaks, we need to come home / to trust.

It’s as if something was born from nothing.

Grief is welcome, a sacred part of the mourning.

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.

Safety is not tied to our capacity to watch our neighbors, but rather based on our capacity to truly look out for one another.

We can’t run from ourselves. The answer to safety is always closer rather than farther away.

The changes that take place in winter are a kind of alchemy, an enchantment performed by ordinary creatures to survive.