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This list includes every page or product from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts that is tagged with Direct Experience.

  • A black man in a dark space looks sideways into the camera. Across his face, in colored light, the letters A G C T represent DNA nucleotides.
    Radicalizing Myself

    Jabari S. Jones

    From Braver/Wiser
    I've adopted the practice of spiritual reconnection with my ancestors to heal intergenerational trauma.
  • Decolonizing My Desire

    Adrienne Maree Brown

    From WorshipWeb
    Since I was a kid, I have had a penchant and passion for my touch on my body. This was sometimes shameful, sometimes wonderful, and deeply private from...
  • A black person's hand, holding a pen over a blank notebook.
    Naming the Truth

    Aisha Ansano

    From Braver/Wiser
    I named the truth as I perceived it, because it didn’t feel like there was any other option.
  • A view of the starry sky at night, straight up, through the silhouette of trees around the edges.
    With Love As My Guide

    Cindy Terlazzo

    From WorshipWeb
    Amidst the swirl of life's challenges, fears, and even moments of crisis, I make time to gaze at the night sky to see the vastness there, And to remembe...
  • Sitting cross-legged on a bed, a person holds a guitar and appears to sing. Next to them is a musical keyboard and an open laptop.
    Keep Singing

    Erin J. Walter

    From Braver/Wiser
    I experience the creative impulse as living just under the surface of the daily grind: tugging; imploring, When do we all get to sing together again?
  • a child smiles up in wonder amid multiple vertical strings of light
    Open to Joy

    Elea Kemler

    From Braver/Wiser
    There is still and always joy in this world, but it usually comes right alongside the struggle.
  • A whisk and dustpan filled with dry twigs, fallen spruce needles, and broken Christmas ornaments
    Worthy of Beauty

    Paul S Sawyer

    From Braver/Wiser
    This is a "love saves" story.
  • A string of Christmas lights rests on bright pink branches of a Christmas tree that's obviously artificial.
    More Than a Bike

    Megan Foley

    From WorshipWeb
    Make sure, both at Christmastime and in other times, that you ask for that which you really want.
  • The Weight of Privilege

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    From WorshipWeb
    The person who enjoys privilege always knows less about the person who lives under the weight of that privilege than the people who are actually under it.
  • Swimmers in the waves of the sea look to a pink sky, where a murmuration of starlings forms a striking shape.
    The Eternal, Calling

    Jake Morrill

    From Braver/Wiser
    The wilderness alongside every moment holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.

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