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Pleasure reminds us to enjoy being alive and on purpose... Pleasure—embodied, connected pleasure—is one of the way we know when we are free. That we are always free. That we always have the power to co-create the world. Pleasure helps us move through the times that are unfair, through grief and...Quote | By Adrienne Maree Brown | February 15, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Beauty, Body, Direct Experience, Humanism, Joy, Love, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Spiritual Practice, WholenessWorship element -
The road not taken is not a fork. That’s too simple a thought, flipping some coin. Either/or. Nope. It’s not this or that. No or yes. It’s nor/ neither and all of the above and more. The road taken goes every way at once. There. There. They. Them. Go. Now. Live.Affirmation | By David Breeden | October 6, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Agnosticism, Coming Out, Dignity, Direct Experience, Gender, Humanism, Identity, Inclusion, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Secular, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element -
A Virginia Breakthrough Congregation builds community through Pride.By Andrea Dulanto | September 1, 2019 | From LifeTagged as: Breakthrough Congregations, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, SexualityPage/Article -
A weekly guide to stories about Unitarian Universalists from other media sourcesBy Heather Christensen | August 6, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Immigration, News, SexualityPage/Article
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Blessed are the wanderers, Seeking affirmation. Blessed are the worshipers, Praying from closets, Pulpits, pews, and hardship. Blessed are the lovers of leaving – Leaving family and familiarity, Leaving tables Where love is not being served. Blessed are those who stay....Blessing | By Helen “HP” Rivers | May 28, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Coming Out, Compassion, Diversity, Family, Gender, Humanism, Justice, Justice Sunday, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Love, National Coming Out Day, Pride Sunday, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular, SexualityWorship element -
250 teens and young adults attend tenth Born This Way Prom, sponsored by Channing Memorial Church’s Interweave group.By Elaine McArdle | May 27, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Sexuality, Young Adults, Youth/TeensPage/Article -
Resisting the erasure of bisexuality.By Mary Benard, George Grattan | October 10, 2018 | From UU WorldTagged as: Family, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, LGBTQ Issues, Relationships, SexualityPage/Article -
We can decide not to let our culture be defined by toxic masculinity.By Emily Wright-Magoon | March 1, 2018 | From LifeTagged as: Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Men, Sexual Boundaries in Congregations, Sexuality, Sexuality Education, Violence, WomenPage/Article -
Remembering to breathe and to breathe deeply and then once more, to take the breath in and let the breath out, we pause, poised as we are, at a point of risking, at a possibility of courage: #metoo. Risking vulnerability Risking pain Risking being known Risking being not believed Risking being...Prayer | By Karen G. Johnston | January 23, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Courage, Direct Experience, Gender, Healing, Mothers, Sexuality, Vulnerability, Wholeness, WomenWorship element -
President Susan Frederick-Gray writes: ‘It is tempting to want to believe that sexual harassment and assault do not happen within our own faith tradition, among our leaders, or within congregations.’By Christopher L. Walton | October 26, 2017 | From UU WorldTagged as: Men, Power, Safe Congregations, Sexual Boundaries in Congregations, Sexuality, WomenPage/Article -
[Touch hands to your own forehead, if it feels natural] May you be blessed with wisdom, knowledge and understanding. May your intellect take you far on your journey. You have been blessed with reason and free will, it is your call every day to use these gifts. [Throat] May you be blessed with voice.Blessing | By Lisa Bovee-Kemper | July 3, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Aging, Body, Compassion, Direct Experience, Humanism, Intimacy, Journey, Justice, Love, Secular, Sexuality, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, WholenessWorship element -
A UU-founded family practice in rural New York offers transgender patients the services they need.By Elaine McArdle | February 15, 2017 | From LifeTagged as: Health, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, SexualityPage/Article -
Bowie, Prince, and Cohen slashed through repression, urging us to be rapturously unshackled and alive.By Elaine McArdle | February 15, 2017 | From IdeasTagged as: Culture, SexualityPage/Article -
Being a Unitarian Universalist (UU), I was lucky to grow up with the Our Whole Lives (OWL) program. I started taking OWL classes when I was 5 years old, and continued to participate through high school....By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | November 21, 2016 | From On CampusTagged as: Campus Ministry, Growth, Multigenerational Faith Development, Sexuality, Sexuality Education, Unitarian Universalism, UnityPage/Article -
Jaime Jarrett’s musical Normativity shows that LGBTQ characters deserve happy endings, too.By Air Nonken Rhodes | November 1, 2016 | From LifeTagged as: Creativity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Sexuality, WomenPage/Article -
A Dixieland chorus of separate lines / Just lucky to be in the same key, in the same room.Feature | By Adam Lawrence Dyer | May 23, 2016 | From UU WorldTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Multiculturalism, SexualityPage/Article -
The word desire comes from the Latin desiderare: “to long for,” but the Latin desiderare comes from de sidere: “from the stars.” From the stars. I find this extraordinary: to think that somehow our desire, our longing, is connected to the very stars in the sky. The stars, which share their...Reading | By Laura Horton-Ludwig | April 8, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Connections, Intimacy, Love, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Sexuality, WonderWorship element -
The religious mystics of every tradition tell us union is what we are here for — union is what we are: we are connected to each other, to the earth, to everything that exists, and to the force that lies beyond it all—only most of the time we don’t realize it. Union is not a myth or a pipe...Reading | By Laura Horton-Ludwig | April 8, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Body, Connections, God, Intimacy, Love, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Sexuality, UnityWorship element -
I wonder Did God’s heart (I mean the love-mushy, endearing part of God) That part The heart that I don’t really believe in as a thing, With pulses... ANYWAY Did that heart Did it Break just a little; When God realized "Oh no— They have made leaves into underpants!" If God says things like...Poetry | By Robin Tanner | April 4, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Body, God, Playfulness, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Shame, WonderWorship element -
Desire and sexuality are not held in high regard by many of the world’s religious traditions today. And sex? Don’t even go there! As extremism rises, desires are seen as objects of suppression while bodies become things to control. The Greeks first articulated this idea of separation of the...Reading | By Robin Tanner | March 2, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Christianity, Direct Experience, Intimacy, Islam, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Sacred, Secular, SexualityWorship element