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Beacon Press

Braver/Wiser: A Weekly Message of Courage and Compassion

  • Becoming Ourselves
    By Amanda Poppei
    Who are you going to be, today? And tomorrow? Who are we all becoming, together?
  • Brilliant Collisions
    By Lindasusan Ulrich
    We can’t always predict which choices will wind up having a huge impact on us, whether it's bringing home a stuffed animal or taking a particular train to Oxford Circus.
  • Big Shoes to Fill
    By Rayla D. Mattson
    Traditions and habits can be changed or broken and that’s not always bad. It doesn’t mean we didn’t learn or like what we did in the past, it just means that we moved on to something else and that’s okay too.
  • To Break Our Hearts Open
    By Amanda Poppei
    What, exactly, are we doing when we invite love into our lives? Surely we know that it's much tidier without it, when things stay at a distance.
  • The Kindness of Others
    By Rayla D. Mattson
    A white woman pulled over and ran over to me with a shopping bag. She noticed that I never have on a coat and I often stand in the rain. She didn’t know if the things would fit, but the receipt was in the bag. She smiled and drove away. As I looked down at the bag, I had very mixed emotions.
  • Amen-Peanut Butter-Eyeballs
    By Christian Schmidt
    Our family prays at mealtime to practice gratitude in our lives. I love that my children are taking it as their own, finding their own meaning.
  • Fear Can't Last Forever
    By Robin Tanner
    This is a story of in-the-middle for those wondering how their story ends.
  • Bruh
    By DeReau K. Farrar
    Black people are so accustomed to being ignored and invisible that a simple acknowledgement—a simple I see you—from a peer goes a long way.
  • Be a Blessing
    By S.J. Butler
    I’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.
  • The Story of My Birth
    By Mandie McGlynn
    Tell me the story of my birth, and help me understand how you were changed the day I entered the world. Help me know love, deep in my bones.
  • The Strength That Defines Us
    By Rayla D. Mattson
    My heart broke the day my son stood in the bathroom crying. He handed me a pair of scissors and told me to just cut it . I told him how beautiful his hair was and how sad I would be to see him cut it.
  • Faithful
    By Robin Tanner
    Being faithful doesn’t mean endless work. It also means attention to the movement of spirit that can appear as an hour of sleep, the truth of a toddler, or a donut in the middle of the day.
  • No Longer Claiming "Divorced"
    By Rayla D. Mattson
    I spent time feeling embarrassed—that somehow I had failed—because I had filed for divorce. It’s been over nine years now, and I wake up every single day happy with my decision.
  • Stopping to Help
    By Rayla D. Mattson
    My oldest child was confused: why would no one stop and help us? Even though people weren’t stopping to help us, my son said, he wanted to be more like me and stop to help someone anyway.
  • I Ride Bus
    By Rayla D. Mattson
    My 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...
  • Pulled by a Fragile Thread
    By Robin Tanner
    We, the willing, follow the threads to one another; past rightness and quips and tweets. We will find one another and persist past sunrise.
  • Love's Pronoun Is Plural
    By Elea Kemler
    My son, Caleb, and I went to Starbucks on a recent Saturday morning. We often do this as a prelude to the weekly grocery shopping. It...
  • Do the Next Thing with Love
    By Becky Brooks
    What DO we do in the face of evil? Anything. Everything. Pray, protest, bake, hug, grieve, wail, laugh, explain, linger, research, fight, cry. What we absolutely must not do is ignore it.

Call and Response: Journeys in UU Lifespan Faith Development

Skinner House Books

Tapestry of Faith: Curricula and Resources for Lifespan Faith Development

Chalice Children

Love Will Guide Us

  • Give Love
    By Denise Tracy
    From the collection Stream of Living Souls. Used with permission. "What do you want for Christmas?" the father asked his daughter. She...

Creating Home

  • A Penguin Family
    At the Central Park Zoo in New York City, there were two penguins named Roy and Silo, who adored each other. It is typical for penguins to...

Families

UU World

  • A flower grew
    By Carl Johnson
    What my young daughter taught me about the meaning of death.
    Image credit: Close up photo of mushrooms on a fallen log.
  • Family holiday traditions, tangled up like lights
    By Meg Barnhouse
    The holiday season can be a tangled web of memory, tradition, longing, and joy.
    Image credit: Stock image of woman holding up a tangle of holiday lights.
  • Greta Gerwig, a ‘fly on the wall for my adolescence’
    By Aisha Ansano, Abigail Clauhs, Hannah Roberts Villnave
    Three young ministers discuss Lady Bird, powerful storytelling, and hopes and possibilities for Unitarian Universalist ritual.
    Image credit: Saoirse Ronan plays the title character in 'Lady Bird' by Greta Gerwig
  • Roo, exactly as he is
    By Jen Shattuck
    When we invite children to tell the truth about themselves, when we meet them with compassion and acceptance, we become a sanctuary.
    Image credit: © Jen Shattuck
  • Raising Unitarian Universalist interfaith ambassadors
    By Michelle Richards
    We must help Unitarian Universalist children and youth engage deeply with a variety of faith traditions.
    Image credit: © 2012 Evan Seitz/UUSC (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
  • Saving ants: Parents as spiritual educators
    By Christine Organ
    As their spiritual educator, I’m teaching my kids the importance of authenticity.
    Image credit: © lnzyx / istockphoto
  • Empty nest, now what?
    By Kimberly French
    After more than two decades, I’ve reached a new parenting milestone.
    Image credit: © brian stauffer/theispot.com

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