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

From the beginning, the story of Black people in America has been told through the lens of white supremacy.

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

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

The Magnificat is a courageous and subversive song of praise; a call to social justice.

God of our ancestors, may we find the ways in which we can connect across generations.

December seventh, "Eight Candles" (1970). Malvina Reynolds was a 20th century Jewish, Unitarian Universalist, socialist, songwriter, and performer who is best known for her song “Little Boxes.” In 1970 she recorded the Hanukkah Song “Eight Candles.” It has since become a holiday favorite.

I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.

This burning flame represented hope during the bleakness of World War II.

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

We can plant the seeds of love and justice in the world.

Our ancestors in faith acted with courage to bring hope and safety.

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

Slavery is made to sound as if it happened in a prehistoric age instead of only a few generations ago.

White supremacy illuminates the exceptional instead of blaming the system.

We have come here today to remember what some are intent on making us forget.

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

Sometimes it feels like Father’s Day is more about enshrining a myth than it is about facing the realities of fatherhood.

Your individual niceness is inadequate to deal with the brutality and the viciousness of what white body supremacy has done to my people.

We in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even....