We proclaim with Love on our side: Our bodies are sacred. Our minds are blessed. Our spirits are beloved.

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.

Some geologists believe that gases from the earth caused the Delphic oracle’s fits of passion and her prophecies. But the scientific answer does not mean the Greeks were foolish to believe they had a relationship with Apollo; it does not erase the relationship they had with their gods.

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

Here we engage in a holy alchemy, finding beauty in the ordinary and life in the present.

A centering practice for meetings, gatherings or worship in person or online.

If you have come here tonight on Rosh Hashanah and feel that there is nothing to examine, no wound in your life to heal, no relationship to repair—then I hope you will listen especially closely to the shofar.

We come from many places—along different paths, bringing different truths.

Prayers to be said on the four Sundays of Advent while lighting the Advent candle wreath.

Let this year be a clean slate for new beginnings.

There in the deep sack of night, a tiny Hope was born. 

The oldest stories tell us we came from the dust, and to dust we will return. But dirt? That’s different. Dust is fine, often even sterile. Dirt, on the other hand, is made up of messier stuff.

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.

“[Democracy] is not merely majority rule based on the fact that the majority has the physical force to prevail…"

Love is the center and foundation of this faith... let fall away all that might distract us from the whole-hearted practice of Love.

As we repent in full body and form, secure our names and the generations to come as you have done through time. God who blessed the womb of life, save us once again.

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.

New ideas for connecting our theology to meaningful, sensory-rich worship.

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

We pause on this night of mystery, to tell the stories, to sing the songs, and to bring more light into the world.

Pause here, and be renewed and restored.

We light this chalice, here in the darkness of winter as we wait.

We light this chalice, so that by its light we may read ALL the books…

Turn toward the thaw, and turn toward the rebirth of spring with New Hope.

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

Holy flame of times past, brighten this present moment…

Illuminate our hearts and the spaces between them in this Sacred Time of unfolding.

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

We call for the freedom and the right for all stories to be freely shared.

We are the recipients of an incredible gift and a beautiful vision.

In this heartbreak what we carry forth is our humanity in newly revealed form—our hearts tender and delicate.

There is room here for each and every one. Come in. Be among us.

Let us open all our senses and let our synapses spark one connection after another.

Welcome, all who seek renewal in a weary world.

Let us remember that we are not alone until we light this flame next time.

Love this world, she whispers.

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.

A script for commissioning an affiliated community minister.

What if sometimes it’s about sparking potential into possibility, and possibility into existence?

“Verily with hardship comes ease...” (Quran; 94:5-6)

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...

WorshipWeb offers you a set of worship resources to welcome 2024.

Welcome abundance, welcome prosperity, welcome love, and welcome light.

Carl the golden retriever learns about the limitations of the Golden Rule.

love is your song and you are fully loved in turn

Thoughtful commentary and context for how to light a menorah responsibly and respectfully.