The changes that take place in winter are a kind of alchemy, an enchantment performed by ordinary creatures to survive.

Slavery is made to sound as if it happened in a prehistoric age instead of only a few generations ago.

White supremacy illuminates the exceptional instead of blaming the system.

Witness pairs grief and rage with remembrance. Pride pairs joy with a determination to be visible.

We are full, sovereign human beings.

When I was small and just learning how to do life in my body, I didn’t hesitate, didn’t hold back, didn’t worry how it would look, didn’t look for cues or ask for a line. My imagination ruled... I was entirely free to be, driven by the innovation my body inspired.

Shame seems to be a bestselling product pumped out of all these crushing systems.

I believe in your grace and protection and cannot imagine them slipping through the cracks.

The 8th Principle is about actively dismantling racism.

The following is an excerpt from the Theological Statement that opens the May 2018 Report of the UUMA Ableism Task Force. The members of that Task Force were Rev. Josh Pawelek and Rev. Barbara F. Meyers, co-chairs; Rev. Mark Belletini; Rev. Erika Hewitt; Rev. Evan Keely; and Rev. Theresa I. Soto.

Don’t argue with salvation when it arrives on your shores.

To see how we fight still after entire lifetimes of struggle—and then to tell us to be more polite is just plain cruel.

Conflict resolution is in fact one of the greatest things that you can accomplish in your life and in your relationship. [W]hen I view people as not bringing conflict up, I think it’s being unfaithful to the relationship. I think it’s an abdication of your role in the relationship, and you are...

Čapek turned to the beauty of the countryside; to the beauty of flowers.

Why do we so readily hand over what's priceless for a meager sum of money—or a major sum, for that matter?

Maundy Thursday means that followers of Jesus serve.

We in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even....

Since I was a kid, I have had a penchant and passion for my touch on my body. This was sometimes shameful, sometimes wonderful, and deeply private from fairly early on, as I received messages from family and neighbors that it wasn’t “right.” It has only been as an adult, as i have witnessed...

The soul of America has yet to be born.

At the core of American racism is the belief that the things we the Blacks desire, the fact that we the Blacks desire, are perversions.