Maybe I went too far mixing V8 and Pop Rocks, but life isn't always sweet.

There is a cricket playing the violin in my bathroom.

Those who want to move the world in the direction of equality and lasting harmony must become, and learn to think of themselves as, forces of history.

My first encounter with Unitarianism.

He has been here ever since.

Like hope, trust, and love, gratitude is both a feeling and a spiritual practice.

Saying goodbye to the home where I raised my children.

Andrene Kauffman’s murals in Chicago’s Third Unitarian Church honor heroes of the liberal spirit.

One year after a gunman opened fire in the Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, the congregation’s minister reflects on the spirituality that has sustained his people.

People probably thought my parents were hippies because we were out-of-the-closet Unitarian Universalists.

An Iranian-American holds her breath as hundreds of thousands march for democracy in Iran.

Volunteering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—and the aftermath of my diagnosis with ALS—has helped me appreciate the complexity of asking for, and offering, help.

The most important thing Samboon taught me was how to speak from my deepest and most grounded place.

What did the Décor Committee know, and when did they know it?

Slow down and walk lightly on the Earth, even if just for a moment.

The Karma Fairy is laughing her head off at the SUV in my driveway.

Faith is what’s left when you stop responding to radical uncertainty with panic and denial.

I worshiped the gods of comedy and tragedy long before I worshiped Jesus's God, and I have never stopped leaving gifts at the altar of Dionysus.