Braver/Wiser
Braver/Wiser
Braver/Wiser
Worship
Life is full of hard edges and complicated choices. Braver/Wiser gives you weekly message of courage and compassion for life as it is. Every Wednesday we deliver an original written reflection by a contemporary religious leader, and brief prayer, grounded in Unitarian Universalism. Join the Braver/Wiser community and sign up today!
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The Kindness of Others
A white woman pulled over and ran over to me with a shopping bag. She noticed that I never have on a coat and I often stand in the rain. She didn’t know if the things would fit, but the receipt was in the bag. She smiled and drove away. As I looked down at the bag, I had very...By Rayla D. Mattson | 11/14/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Love Does Not Disappear
In the eighteen years I’ve served as minister of my small-town congregation, I have led 96 memorial services, most for people I have loved. The longer I stay, the deeper I love and the more I grieve.By Elea Kemler | 10/31/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Out of the Spiritual Fog
God is not a distant force, far away. God is in the beating of our hearts and the backbeat of a funky baseline. God is in a four-on-the-floor drum fill, and in the achy joints and sore muscles the day after.By Alex Haider-Winnett | 10/24/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Worthy of Love
What had to die was my shame: my belief that I was not worthy of such love. I discovered a greater love within myself as a creation of God, worthy of these gifts.By Rebekah Savage | 10/17/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Blessed Are the Magic-Makers
We could see the main path to the swimming hole ahead, but we had to pick our way through sand spurs to get there. Behind us were rattlesnakes. What did the youth do? They started playing.By Teresa Honey Youngblood | 10/10/2018Average rating:0/5 -
The Storm
Emotional tempests aren’t always easy to weather — pain, grief, disappointment, even love — but the flatness of life without such currents is the slow silence of drowning.By Lindasusan Ulrich | 10/3/2018Average rating:0/5 -
The Compliment
I trusted the woman at the pharmacy to be capable of hearing hard truth. Bless her wounded heart with its internalized misogyny. She just wants women to love and support each other. Thank you. Me too.By Misha Sanders | 9/26/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Amen-Peanut Butter-Eyeballs
Our family prays at mealtime to practice gratitude in our lives. I love that my children are taking it as their own, finding their own meaning.By Christian Schmidt | 9/19/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Angry Birds
Who are the angry birds in my life? Do I avoid opportunities in fear of risks? What are the sticks I carry in my heart so as not to be hurt again?By Yuri Yamamoto | 9/12/2018Average rating:0/5 -
The Beauty Spilling Out
It's an impulse of the human self to be known fully, and that’s almost never possible unless we risk the conversations that help us see past our initial impressions.By Amanda Poppei | 9/5/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Fear Can't Last Forever
This is a story of in-the-middle for those wondering how their story ends.By Robin Tanner | 8/29/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Bruh
Black people are so accustomed to being ignored and invisible that a simple acknowledgement—a simple I see you —from a peer goes a long way.By DeReau K. Farrar | 8/22/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Petrichor
May we find unexpected ways to remember where we came from and imagine where we may go next. May we find touchstones of our pasts, and may they become a foundation for the future.By Alex Haider-Winnett | 8/15/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Someone Loved by Someone Else
If a friend were in my situation, I would have seen their failings as human. So why hold someone to an unforgiving standard just because that someone is me ?By Kat Liu | 8/8/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Red Bubble Letters
It is my only memory of a lesson from Kindergarten Sunday School class. Maybe it’s the only one that counts.By Misha Sanders | 8/1/2018Average rating:0/5 -
The Gift I've Already Been Given
Almost every person I told about my family's near-accident told me that it was God intervening. But that’s not fair to us, and it’s not fair to God.By Nathan Ryan | 6/13/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Home, Again
People move places for jobs, relations, opportunities, escape, hindering our ability to put down new roots. And yet, we carry a constancy: the still, quiet voice within.By Teresa Honey Youngblood | 6/6/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Be a Blessing
I’d gotten in the habit of keeping my head down and hardly noticing where I was or who was around me. On this day, I decided to greet the world differently.By S.J. Butler | 5/30/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Playlists of the Spirit
Music is my solace and my comfort, the one thing that’s always with me. I feel its vibration deep in my soul; it’s my spiritual practice. Music tells the story of my life.By Connie Simon | 5/23/2018Average rating:0/5 -
Building a Common Life
I choose to believe in community. I choose to believe in the difficult, slow work of building a common life.By Elea Kemler | 5/16/2018Average rating:0/5
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