In some religious traditions disagreements are discouraged or forbidden. However in the Unitarian Universalist Church we agree with the Jewish tradition that states that “debate is a sacrament.” As we…
In our church we have a class called Our Whole Lives offering comprehensive sexuality education to our youth. What if we had a similar class offering our kids comprehensive mental…
Communion is the experience where we can divide without subtracting. By breaking bread together we increase our abundance rather than decrease it. By giving we receive. By sharing we are…
Around the world artists have created a new tradition around the anniversaries of the bombings of Guernica, London, Warsaw, Santiago de Chili, Dubrovnik, Barcelona and Berlin. The tradition is called…
Chris writes, “It is rare for me to buy a book based solely on the title. However, when I saw the book Reasons Not to Worry by the Australian journalist…
Our culture tends to segregate the living and the dead. Neighborhood parks with their noisy playgrounds are for the living. Cemeteries and the silence of the tomb are for the…
In the heart of Paris, France there is a beautiful 12th century church that has been converted into a museum of science and industry. The sanctuary of this once consecrated…
Derek Black authored a book called Dangerous Learning: the South’s Long War on Black Literacy raising the question - is the current state government policy on book banning a continuation…
Researchers tell us that bats are highly social animals who tend to argue a lot with each other. In many churches this is Saint Francis Sunday so we will spend…
Is honesty always the best policy? In February our minister gave a sermon called Binki Busts Up the Patriarchy. In this Sunday’s sermon he returns to the 236 pages of…