Jake Morrill

Rev. Jake Morrill smiles, outdoors, with a wooden building behind him.

Rev. Jake Morrill (he/him/his) has served the Oak Ridge (TN) UU Church as Lead Minister since 2003. The Executive Director of the UU Christian Fellowship, he’s also a therapist and leadership coach. His weekly e-newsletter, "Tenacious Play," comes out on Mondays; readers can subscribe to it at his website.

From Jake Morrill

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Braver/Wiser

In the foreground, a slice of pecan pie and a hot beverage sit on a table. In the background, there's a merry decorated Christmas tree.
The Grace within a Pecan Pie
From Braver/Wiser
For me, “surrendering everything tenderly” brings an awareness of grace.
A person's hands shape a clay vessel on a potter's wheel.
Only Clay on the Wheel
From Braver/Wiser
I want to be shaped in a way that lets me serve the eternal.
Swimmers in the waves of the sea look to a pink sky, where a murmuration of starlings forms a striking shape.
The Eternal, Calling
From Braver/Wiser
The wilderness alongside every moment holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.
An assortment of brightly colored holiday sweaters, in profile, lined up as they hang together
An Adequate Christmas
From Braver/Wiser
An adequate Christmas would have you calm and open, taking it in, accepting whatever is. Slow it all down like you might be, in some way, attuned to the...
A perfectly spherical bubble floats in front of a blue sky and puffy white clouds
Exuberance
From Braver/Wiser
What's my favorite weather? When the wind whips your face, you're alive, and you can think what you will.
Six wild geese, in flight against a pale sky
Singing Out for Love's Return
From Braver/Wiser
"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things....
Through a plate glass window at night, a person ducks through rainy weather with their coat pulled over their head.
Sticking It Out in the Storm
From Braver/Wiser
.I want liberty and justice for all in my country. That will ask of me—and of many of you—the discipline of discomfort.
Against a violent orange smoke, a helicopter hovers over a forest on fire.
What on Earth Is Worth Saving
From Braver/Wiser
Those of us with some privilege in this empire may be tempted to seek refuge in it, as if privilege was ever going to save us. But who’s to say whether you’ve come to this place and position for a...
A thick pane of glass is shattered, with hundreds of radiating cracks
Our Whole Life Is a Series of Signs
From Braver/Wiser
Our whole life is a series of signs. Any slight action: a dim semaphore. Our redemption, if it happens, will mean somebody tried.

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