democracy, today we will love you alive

We are divine bodies of light and darkness

Change can be uncomfortable. Like any time we learn a new technology, it can take a little while to adjust.

Rooting ourselves in love as the source of all we are, Let us love.

We can plant the seeds of love and justice in the world.

Every creature is an embodiment of the Love of the Universe.

Maybe if we add an 8th Principle, we will get closer to the BeLOVEd Community we dream about.

Let it be said by generations to come that when the pain of our separation was revealed, we moved closer to the promised land of our beloved community.

We are one, a diverse group of proudly kindred spirits, here not by coincidence but because we choose to journey together.

We gather because we need community to do all of this holy work.

Holding people accountable for the impact of their behavior is not revenge; it’s what makes change and growth possible, and no real healing in community can come without it.

We seek blessed assurance through pandemic chaos, relentless loss, and unimaginable stress.

To be a Unitarian Universalist means we’ll never be done with the work.

As Unitarian Universalists, our journey is to transform the big and the small, to transform ourselves, and to transform the world.

We who gather here In this tender and anxious and confusing time We have been awash in a sea of information And misinformation and disinformation and this information that we seek is simply so that we May make wise decisions about how we respond And learn how we hold one another when we can’t hol...

I once saw a little sign, carved in wood, that read, “There is only the hard way.” Many of us have been harmed by theology that told us that suffering was a sacrifice that would bring us closer to God. Many of us were told that our suffering would redeem us, even when we knew that actual...

In the Bible, there’s a pretty well-known story about David and Goliath. Goliath, a huge warrior from the side of the Philistines, challenged someone from the side of the Israelites to battle. David was chosen and he knew that even with all of the armor in the world, he would not be able to win...

The wellspring of decency is loving this life in which people die, people suffer, there are limits, and we make mistakes. The wellspring, then, of moral action is not utopia, not a counterfactual vision, not a declaration that the world could and should be otherwise....

Reader 1: In 1637, the white settlers in what was to become the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, wanted to start a church. What they longed for was sincere religious association based in love, and founded in freedom. Reader 2: The idea of a free church took shape among the people—a church whose...

Non-Indigenous people who seek to reconnect with the earth must be wary of the dangerous problem of spiritual theft. On the one hand, we have much to learn from Native peoples about this land and about what it means to honor our relationship to the land. We must take our lead from those who have...