Be present to other people as they are, not as you want them to be.

As national events chip away at my First-Principle practices, I have to wonder: What will be left?

Does the sin of white supremacy live in us or in the systems beyond us?

Hope and compassion can be a critical part of political and spiritual resistance for Unitarian Universalists.

Late in his life, the philosopher Richard Rorty — a well-known atheist — was asked by an interviewer if he could define holy. Perhaps the interlocutor thought the aging and dying Rorty would be stumped by the question or would fall into some traditional language of reverence. But Rorty was not...

The blasphemy of body hatred has no place in this temple.

Unitarian Universalists support the dignity and rights of people all across the spectrum of gender. Read More...

When my end comes, I hope I will have the power to die well.

Original version in English by Tracy Bleakney, traducción en español por Theresa Soto A child journeys far from home Fearful and brave, in need of safe harbor. Guided by this chalice, may we seek to understand the causes of flight. Like the comfort of a candle flickering in a window of darkness,...

Note: this reflection was written at the end of Rev. Janis-Dillon's week in Samos, Greece working in a Syrian refugee center. The people of Samos, Greece have done something that sounds ordinary, only it's not: they have treated the Syrian refugees like human beings. Past the terror of the rubber...