Acceptance
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Beacon Press
Braver/Wiser: A Weekly Message of Courage and Compassion
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By Monica DobbinsSometimes grief sends notice ahead of time; sometimes, it shows up as an unwelcome, uninvited guest.
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By Erika A. HewittDespite being warmly welcomed over and over by the greeters, by the family sitting behind me, and by the lead pastor, I couldn’t shake that “guest” feeling.
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By Elea KemlerIt is deeply spiritual work to learn to treat ourselves with compassion; to learn to see ourselves, if only in moments, the same way we look at something or someone we find beautiful: a newborn baby, the ocean, a sunset.
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By Alix KlingenbergOnce I quit drinking, my inner voice and I began the harder work: that of creating a life from which I do not need or want to escape.
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By Misha SandersIt is my only memory of a lesson from Kindergarten Sunday School class. Maybe it’s the only one that counts.
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By S.J. ButlerI’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.
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By Connie SimonWhat if we encouraged and celebrated each other for who we are? What if, instead of criticizing, we challenged with love, affirming the good we see in one another?
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By Erika A. HewittTo offer hospitality, we first have to identify ourselves — sometimes in inconvenient or uncomfortable ways — as helpers; as willing to offer kindness or connection to someone we might disagree with.
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By Lindasusan UlrichSpirit of Compassion, remind us that our task as humans is not perfection, but faithfulness.
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By DeReau K. FarrarI wanted so badly to break free and let loose—but I just couldn't. I was stuck in my own false ideas of the congregation's expectations of me. Luckily, there’s still time.
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By Lindasusan UlrichSpirit of Compassion, help us draw strength from all that we are. Give us new language with which to claim our wholeness, a new litany of joy built out of words that wounded.
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By Rayla D. MattsonMy three-year-old is almost completely nonverbal. Every day when she gets off the bus, I ask her the same question: I ask her how her day...
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By DeReau K. FarrarHow many times do I need to make mistakes at the expense of other people, or people’s groups, before I’m ready to admit that I’m not any better at this than the bigoted and willfully ignorant? If I am to “be change,” I must commit to humility and refuse to settle for my own comforting achievements.
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By Marisol CaballeroHow is it that I, a minister and known skeptic, am able to a) not run around screaming that the sky is falling and, b) do my job at all?...
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By Marisol CaballeroI am ever grateful for the friends who are my family; who have pieced me together each time I’ve fallen apart; who laugh, cry, dream, and age happily by my side.
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By Maureen KilloranHe was, I am told, just a dog. But who was it that, fresh from the litter, climbed onto my chest, licked my face, and rubbed his pink baby...
inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
Skinner House Books
Tapestry of Faith: Curricula and Resources for Lifespan Faith Development
Hindsight, Humor, and Hope
Miracles
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This Korean folk tale, translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl, is similar to the European folk tale “The Frog Prince.” Used with the translator’s...
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There once was an inquisitive, thoughtful girl named May. She was born in Belgium, about 100 years ago. She lived there only a few years...
Faithful Journeys
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It was a hot, muggy morning. Christopher was not sure he really wanted to be out riding in a competition. His thoroughbred horse, Eastern...
Building Bridges
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The following account is one young person's encounter with a fundamentalist extremist group. In June of 1998, I lost an uncle to an AIDS...
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By Mary K. IsaacsBuilding Bridges is a world religions program to deepen youth's understanding of the dynamic, fascinating, and varied world in which they live. It seeks to broaden their knowledge of humanity and embolden their spiritual search.
Chalice Children
Love Surrounds Us
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Adapted from a story by Janeen K. Grohsmeyer in her book Lamp in Every Corner: Our UU Storybook (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association...
Signs of Our Faith
Creating Home
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Adapted from Christian scripture. There once was a father, who had two sons. The younger son wanted to leave home and travel to distant...
What We Choose
What Moves Us
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There was an extraordinary range of personal beliefs among the participants in my 2003 small group workshop in Prague, the capital of the...
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Several years ago, I spent an evening discussing Covenant Groups with members of a New England church who were interested in starting a...
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In July 2003, I went on an eight-day spiritual retreat at a Benedictine monastery in Wisconsin. The night before I left Chicago to drive to...
Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults
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By Rev. Elizabeth Buffington Nguyen, Leadership Development Associate for Youth and Young Adults of Color. When I was 24, my father gave me...
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By India McKnight"Honey, those girls were being chased for at least half a mile once school got out," Ms. Myra recalled. I shook my head knowingly. We had...
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By Elandria WilliamsThe Highlander Research and Education Center is an 80-year-old popular education center in the mountains of East Tennessee, which serves as...
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