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A New Year: 2022

2021 lies behind us. 2022 is the new now. More of the same? Big change? What difference does a year really make?

The Grace of Gifts

This time of year is a time for giving and receiving gifts. There is something deeply human about giving gifts and something deeply divine about receiving them. Let us together give thanks for the grace of gifts.

The Calm of Winter

The peace of night surrounds us more today than at any other time of year. The stillness. The quiet. The darkness. The calm. What are the gods telling us by arranging for us to experience life this way?

A Meditation on Love

No, this is not about Hallmark cards for Valentine’s Day, nor anything like the Beatles’ song “Love Love Love”… So, who, what, and where? The Hebrew Bible, Jesus, the Buddha, Karen Armstrong, and Martin Luther King, Jr. And by the way, can you forgive your enemies?

Is Unitarian Universalism a Religion?

We UU’s like to dodge the term “religion”. We call ourselves a “movement”. We call our theology a “philosophy”. We eschew anything clerical. Can we really change what we are just by changing the words we use?

What Sustains You?

We have gone through a lot in the past 18 months or so. Personally, as a congregation, in our local communities and in the wider world. We have each seen, done and witnessed some things that tire us, some things that frustrate us and some things that baffle us. But what has sustained you through … Continue reading What Sustains You?