Unitarian Universalism
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The Story of Unitarian Universalist Faith
You know how it is when you’ve taken a thing for granted, and then something shifts and all of a sudden you’re seeing it as if for the first time? That happened for me not too long ago, with something that is printed in every one of our church hymnals, right at the beginning and…
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Fifteen years ago, I opened up my newspaper to read that the great civil rights hero Rosa Parks had died. “Until December 1955,” went the tribute in that newspaper, “a soft-spoken department store seamstress could not have imagined being placed at the forefront of any movement. Rosa Parks, who died Monday at age 92, was…
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May 24, 2020 Dear Kurt Vonnegut, You have been called “our most distinguished and indispensable grouch.” You have been described as “a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe.” In your book entitled Breakfast of Champions, we find there a very short story entitled “The Dancing…
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“It is in the small things we see it,” says Anne Sexton in her poem entitled “Courage”: The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking when your heart went on a journey all alone. When they called you crybaby or…
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General Assembly is the annual gathering of Unitarian Universalists from around the world, and every year it’s a different place we land. It was several years ago at the General Assembly in Columbus, Ohio, when I found myself absorbed by the sight of the thousands of people streaming through the corridors of the Greater Columbus…
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It is “one of the most cruel of diseases,” says the Rev. Eugene Pickett, past-President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and my friend of many years. “Helen,” he says, “the love of my life for 63 years, is now suffering from moderate to severe dementia. […] She has lost most of her ability to recognize…
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