Tools your UU congregation can use to dismantle white supremacy culture and create anti-racist, multicultural transformation.

How do we learn to live, as people and as congregations, like we are worthy of love? How do we live into compassion for ourselves and others?

How do we as people and as congregations meet the intensity of this moment with curiosity instead of defensiveness?

Many of our congregations can sometimes get stuck in polarized, either/or thinking. Are you an atheist or a theist? Are you racist or woke? The deeper spiritual truth is such divisions are an illusion.

In our striving to do our best and be our best, we as people and we as congregations can sometimes gravitate toward perfectionism--a force that cuts us, and others, down. How can we learn to honor the good about who we are and what we're accomplishing, knowing that it's incomplete, knowing that it's imperfect?

December 4, 2019 The first of the candles in the Advent Wreath is the candle of Hope. In the Lutheran tradition of my childhood, we always lit Advent candles this time of year. Winter is often a time when we look for hope. We look with hope for the return of the sun in the months to come. We hope...

What would our communities and our lives be like if we lived from our faith more than from our fear?

Shifting from the hyperindividualistic thinking embedded in so much of American culture to an interdependent collective way of being.

September 2019 This is the season of shifts—some of you have new staff, new board members, and a new church year upon us. We are all shifting gears of sorts. Your regional program staff is also shifting into the new year. Our late August retreat felt like a launch into a new era for us. This...