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  • In a living room with a lit Christmas tree and gifts, a woman sits with closed eyes, slumped, with her hand on her forehead as if she's disappointed or frustrated.
    Help me feel the calm in the storm—even the ones of my own making.
    Reflection | By Kahla Childers | December 3, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Compassion, Empathy, Failure, Family, Letting Go, Limitations, Responsibility, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
  • Prehistoric stenciled outlines of many overlapping hands on the wall of a cave (the Cueva de las Manos in Argentina). Some hands show up as ochre on a white background, some are white on a black or ochre background.
    We sang, we loved, we gazed up at the mysterious stars. We tried to understand what had created us, why we were here, why we suffered and how to keep what was precious.
    Reading | By Lóre Stevens | December 1, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Connections, Earth, Generations, History, Journey, Nature, Reverence, Science, Worship
  • A wooden crate holding vegetables like carrots, peppers, and leeks is carried between two people: each person is holding one handle, outdoors, as they walk through a field or garden.
    My grandparents are now ancestors, but they taught me about creating a home of abundance.
    Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | November 26, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Abundance, All Souls Day, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Family, Food, Friendship, Generations, Generosity, Gratitude, Humanism, Simplicity, Stewardship, Thanksgiving, Worship
  • A lecturer with graying hair speaks at a lectern, holding a page of notes, his back to the camera. In the background, blurred, is a bank of seats filled with audience members.
    Whether they walk, shuffle, or wheel themselves into my life, every person I interact with matters.
    Reflection | By JD Stillwater | November 19, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • A table covered with a red tablecloth and a purple tablecloth. The front is labeled with the word PRIDE, with each letter handwritten on a separate piece of letter paper. On the center of the table is a clear box filled with large serving spoons. The rest of the table is completely covered by many loose spoons. Among the spoons are many handwritten signs labeled with types of disabilities: “cognitive,” “developmental,” “sensory,” “hidden,” and so on.
    This two-part ritual, inspired by the disability justice concept of spoon theory, includes a litany of things that can “take spoons away” from people. Part of the WorshipWeb collection “Worth and Dignity of All Bodies.”
    Litany, Ritual | By Anna Tulou | November 17, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Body, Commitment, Disability, Human Rights, Identity, Inclusion, Respect, Rights, Solidarity, Worship
  • Indoors, in front of a sunny window and amid houseplants, a light-skinned Black sits cross-legged, eyes closed, as if meditating.
    I have a right to feel scared and hurt, and angry. Yet I refuse to let hate calcify my heart.
    Reflection | By Vanessa Titang | November 12, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: America, Anger, Anti-Oppression, Belief, Commitment, Identity, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Worship
  • Sitting on a couch, with only their torso and upper legs visible, a dark-skinned person wearing jeans and an olive T-shirt leans forward with their elbows on their knees. In one hand they dangle a military dog tag, and a similar tag is visible hanging from their neck outside of their T-shirt.
    As citizens of this democratic nation, we’re all complicit in its wars and conflicts.
    Reflection | By Rina Shere | November 5, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Accountability, America, Compassion, Conscience, Mental Health, Military, Politics, Veterans Day, Worship
  • An woman wearing an olive T-shirt and camo pants, suggesting a military veteran, leans forward in her chair, hands together, towards a counselor who's seated with a clipboard of notes on her lap.
    Just as you and I are more than our suffering, so too is each veteran more than their suffering.
    Reflection | By Rina Shere | October 29, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Military, Veterans Day, Worship
  • From behind, from the neck down, a military service member is shown wearing camouflage holds his rucksack in front of a house's doorstep. An American flag hangs next to the front door.
    My Universalist theology guides me to remind our veterans that they are not defined by their worst moment or action.
    Reflection | By Rina Shere | October 22, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Military, Military Service, Veterans Day, Worship
  • Inside an structure that contains many angled mirror panels, the camera captures a mosaic of reflections of people moving through an urban landscape.
    May my path be guided by dharma—a love ethic of right thought and action.
    Reflection | By Rumni Saha | October 15, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Outdoors under a canopy of trees, three men chat while looking upward; one points toward something out of frame.
    The neighborhood, the village, the beloved community is for all of us.
    Reflection | By Helen “HP” Rivers | October 8, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • In a hospital bed, a person wearing an oxygen mask gazes up at two nurses or physicians, who are wearing blue scrubs, masks, and hairnets.
    The most important person is the person in front of us, whether they’re a person we’re “supposed” to help, a friend, or a stranger.
    Reflection | By Sue Oshiro-Zeier | October 1, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • A close up of a person's hands, with dirt under their nails. One open palm cradles a pile of seeds; the other hand is pinching a few of those seeds.
    To live well is to be in relationship with the earth’s constant change.
    Reflection | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | September 24, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • A person with dark skin, wearing denim overalls, is partially seen kneeling on the floor. They are holding a long-handled paintbrush and dabbing yellow paint on a paint palette that rests on the floor, at the level of the camera. They appear to be in the middle of a painting in a studio.
    The freedom to seek, discover, and accept others’ truths is a sweet path to follow.
    Reflection | By Clint Nicely | September 17, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Arts & Music, Beauty, Creativity, Discernment, Freedom, Individualism, Personal Stories, Worship
  • A flower with 17 thin purple petals surrounding a cluster of yellow stamens — a Balkan anemone — rests on a piece of glass that has cracks radiating outwards from the flower.
    It is an act of love for yourself and for each other to come back home to being a regular person: to let go of pretend-perfection and certainty.
    Reading | By David Schwartz | September 15, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Addiction/Recovery, Blame, Brokenness, Integrity, Love, Shame, Vulnerability, Wholeness, Worship, Worth
  • A preteen child, sitting on a step, hugs their knees and rests the side of their face on their knees, as if expressing sadness. An adult sitting next to them attends to the child, one hand on their knee and another around their back.
    We're only as safe as the people we’re willing to protect.
    Reflection | By Samara Powers | September 10, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #LGBTQ, #LoveResists, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Activism, Challenge, Commitment, Conscience, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Living Our Faith, Oppression, Solidarity, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
  • A young person, seen only from their neck to their chest, has their palm flat against their heart. In the blurred background, an adult sitting up on a couch appears to be doing the same thing.
    Hold us as we learn to show ourselves the kindness we seek to model for those we love.
    Reflection | By Audrey McCann | September 3, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Children, Choice, Direct Experience, Empathy, Forgiveness, Healing, Humanism, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Transformation, Trauma, Worship
  • A crack in beige pavement. The photo is tall and thin, and the dark crack stretches in a somewhat jagged line from the bottom left of the photo to the upper right.
    Everything about our existence points towards change, flexibility, and dynamic re-creation. And it’s hard because change involves loss.
    Poetry | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | August 29, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Business Meetings, Change, Governance, Leadership, Ministerial Transition, Progress, Worship
  • The dome of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from below and lit from bright sunlight coming through the dome’s open top. The photo is in black and white, overexposed and with high contrast, so the shadows of the architectural elements form a pattern reminiscent of the seeds of a sunflower.
    we gather now / in the wake of their efforts to erase / as a sign / that we are not so easy to erase / and knowing that we are / literally love becoming
    Affirmation | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | August 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Family, History, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Living Our Faith, Love, National Coming Out Day, Pride Sunday, Sacred, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Worship
  • Against a dark flat landscape with the sun low on the horizon, a river winds dramatically into the distance. It stretches across the image from right to left and back again four or five times before disappearing into the horizon.
    In the beginning, the Earth spoke.… And water, ever flowing, taught that life is movement and change.
    Affirmation | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | August 12, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Commitment, Connections, Earth, Justice, Water Communion, Wisdom, Worship