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  • A close-up of braided rope.
    This is a reunion. We’re re-membering.
    Affirmation | By Alessandra Nysether-Santos | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, Diversity, Inclusion, Interdependence, Living Our Faith
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    ... the fullness of our shapes and sizes are countless as stars in an infinite universe.
    Affirmation | By Amy G. S. A. Brooks | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Body, Empathy, Fat Liberation, Identity, Inclusion
  • A hand with some dirt smudges on it holds a compass. The background in blurred.
    I trust that my heart knows the way
    Affirmation | By Kari Kopnick | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Patience, Peace, Searching, Self-Respect, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Transcendence, Trust, Worship
  • Two photos in wood frames are propped in front of a row of books. Both photos are in sepia tones, and obviously very old. The first photo, of Rev. Samuel Longfellow, is a close-up of a white man with short parted hair, a mustache, bushy beard, and a bow tie. The second photo, of Rev. Samuel Johnson, is set back slightly, showing a white man with longer dark hair, and a longer beard. He is wearing a suit and bow tie, as well, and his name appears in calligraphy under the portrait.
    The love that brought The Sams into partnership ripples outward from their lives.
    Reflection | By Norman Allen | June 25, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • In the foreground, a small candle is lit inside of a glass jar. It's setting on the back of a wooden church pew, in the dark. In the background, the chancel of the sanctuary is visible, an altar filled with lit candles, and strings of white lights draped across the vaulted ceiling. It's a cozy vibe.
    “The Sams,” as they were known in Transcendentalist circles, revised time-worn lyrics to move beyond dogma and creed.
    Reflection | By Norman Allen | June 18, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • A dark-skinned person, wearing headphones and with closed eyes, as if caught up in the joy of music. The background is stylized with paint-like splashes of color, musical notation, and other artistic elements.
    Art heals.
    Reflection | By Jolie Rocke | June 11, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Taken from behind and between two people, a woman sitting at a piano uses her hands to position the hands of a young child next to her, as if the child is having trouble striking the correct keys.
    May I always seek the wisdom, beauty, and whimsy in the grace notes of life.
    Reflection | By Sarah Dutton | June 4, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Against a black background, puffs of glittery smoke appear in a span of teal, blue, violet, lavender, red, orangey-yellow, lime, and green.
    Unitarian Universalism “queers” the idea of theology itself.
    Reflection | By Karishma Gottfried | May 28, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Freedom, Identity, Imagination, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
  • From behind, a dark-skinned person wearing jeans and a hoodie holds the hand of a small child. They're standing on a beach, looking at the waves. Next to them, a looming metal border wall, with one tarnished panel, stretches far into the ocean.
    It is a profoundly simple thing to put love at the center.
    Reflection | By Zeb Green | May 21, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Two leaf-strewn paths diverging in a wooded area with a light dusting of snow on the ground.
    The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?
    Quote | By Omar El Akkad | May 19, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Ethics, History, Integrity, Justice, Power, Worship
  • Five young multicultural adults are seated at two adjoining desks in a glass-walled room suggesting a library. Two students are looking down at open books, while the other three appear to be chatting with one another.
    I need the balance of accountability and support that comes only from being in deep relationship with others.
    Reflection | By Takiyah Nur Amin | May 14, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Accountability, Challenge, Change, Direct Experience, Humanism, Humility, Listening, Relationships, Responsibility, Trust, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
  • Caught in flight, a red-winged blackbird flies over greenery. The small, bright red patches on its wings blaze against its black body and wings.
    When we live authentically, we honor the truth that all people are beloved.
    Reflection | By Cara Stultz Costello | May 7, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • A dark mosaic, crafted from many small pieces of dark glass, reflect a rainbow of vivid colors.
    Everything is different now.
    Reflection | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | April 30, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Abundance, America, Direct Experience, Empathy, Family, Fathers, Fear, Humanism, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Love, Worship
  • In the foreground, the singer of a punk band grips a microphone and sings with passion. Behind him, colored lights and smoke fill a stage that holds three guitarists. In the background, people are rocking out to the music.
    As chaplains, we create spaces that provide ceremony, connection, and sanctuary.
    Reflection | By James Clarke | April 23, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Arts & Music, Caring, Direct Experience, Identity, Inclusion, Individualism, Searching, Worship
  • In a church sanctuary, with a stained glass window behind the pulpit with a blurred figure, two different people with dark skin raise an arm to the sky in praise.
    In an era of certain oppression, living our values calls me to resistance.
    Reflection | By Verdis Robinson | April 16, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Christianity, Easter, Worship
  • Seen from above, an apparently exhausted person lies on a running track. The person has light brown skin and dark black hair, including a beard and mustache. They are wearing black shorts, a long-sleeve black athletic top, and white athletic shoes. The track is blue, with white lane markings, and the person is lying down where there are yellow triangles marking a relay exchange zone. The track markings give the composition of the image an abstract feel.
    Help me remember, Beloved, that the longings of my heart are never satisfied by the sprint but rather by the slow, languid meander.…
    Poetry, Prayer | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | April 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Immanence, Journey, Mindfulness, Patience, Trust, Worship
  • Christmas-themed crafts on a white table, seen from above. The focus of the image is a tic-tac-toe game: the squares are marked by sprays of pine needles decorated with holly berries, the Xs are pine-tree-shaped Christmas cookies covered in powdered sugar, and the Os are gingerbread people partly covered with chocolate icing and colorful sprinkles. Surrounding the game are a holiday card, a bowl of Christmas cookies, cinnamon sticks, more sprays of pine needles, and holly berries on otherwise bare branches.
    The magic of Christmas doesn't just happen: It’s made, just like how each year a miracle is celebrated. But that very first Christmas—that miracle—didn’t just happen either…
    Reading | By Adena Dannouf | April 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Commitment, Creativity, Love, Meaning, Patience, Sacred, Work, Worship
  • A black-and-white photograph of a person’s hand, partially obscured by the paws of a cat. The black cat is nearly invisible in the shadows surrounding the hand, but its face must be behind the hand because the whiskers from one side of its face are visible in the light that illuminates the hand. The cat’s paws — white, in contrast to its black legs — are pulling the person’s hand toward its body.
    If I can do nothing more, I go out the back door and sit on the steps where the tuxedo cat rubs my leg and I look for the holy.…
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | April 11, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Animals, Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Spiritual Practice, Worship
  • A person wearing a blue waterproof jacket and grey pants walks away from us on a narrow trail between giant redwood trees in the Pacific Northwest. They are using a wheeled walker as a mobility aid.
    May all creatures live their lives as if no human crushed asphalt / over the land or shaved ancient forests bald.
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | April 11, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Reverence, Worship
  • On a set of stairs outdoors, two women sit talking. They're holding hands, as if comforting one another.
    It seems to me that right now, we all need a little extra grace.
    Reflection | By Elizabeth Stevens | April 9, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Caring, Compassion, Conflict, Despair, Direct Experience, Empathy, Grace, Living Our Faith, Patience, Relationships, Worship