Universalism
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Dear Star of Wonder
December 22, 2024, O Star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright, That’s from one of the Christmas carols so many of us sing in my time, which starts, We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts, traversing afar, field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star –which is you. And…
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Paradise In This Life
The historic Universalist side of our religion says something powerful. It says, “Love the hell out of this world!” Say that with me: “Love the hell out of this world!” And we can do that, because, as Universalism teaches, hell is a human creation and therefore healed through human effort. Efforts of many kinds. Feeding…
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When one imagines a religion, something human-made may immediately come to mind: perhaps religious architecture like Angkor Wat, the vast ancient Hindu temple complex in Cambodia; or Islam’s Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem; or Chartres Cathedral in Paris. Something spacious and sizable in stone and glass, shaped by human hands. Yet I am struck…
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Have you ever felt like you’re lost, but then you came face-to-face with something that said to you, “You’re not lost. You’re just in process of getting found”? From all our various source traditions—from Buddhism and Taoism and Confucianism, from Judaism and Christianity and Islam, from humanist traditions and earth-based traditions, from all these and…
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We begin today at the very beginning of our Unitarian Universalist faith, 2000 years ago, with certain Jesus-followers who did not believe Jesus was equal to God. Jesus was very special in some sense, but not equal to God. Call these Jesus followers Unitarians. There were also those who did not believe that God would…
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One day not so long ago, a man named McArthur Wheeler robbed a bank. He threw himself fearlessly into it, and there is a reason why. He was fearless because he covered his face with lemon juice which, he believed, would make his face invisible to the surveillance cameras. Lemon juice makes for invisible ink,…
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There is a song in Singing the Journey (the turquoise hymnal) that has been singing itself through me lately. The author is the great Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, member of Sweet Honey in the Rock: For each child that’s born, a morning star rises and sings to the universe who we are. We are our grandmothers’…
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