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February 1, 2026: Bearing Witness in Minneapolis
—The best of times, the worst of times. It kept ringing through my mind in Minneapolis. Because in my life, it surely was. The best and the worst, all tied together.(more)
December 1, 2024: Resilience Is Resistance / Do the Next Right Thing
—You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything, and everything we can save is worth saving. You are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being…(more)
April 3, 2022: Nature’s Best Hope (It’s You)
—The planet is losing species at an alarming rate, and humans are in jeopardy. But if you have a yard -- or the ability to write a letter -- there are many ways you can help!(more)March 20, 2022: The Courage of Zelensky
—Trusting in his people, trusting in his dream of democracy, Volodymyr Zelensky has put his own life and even his young family on the line. And for it he has become trustworthy, like no one else in living memory.(more)
January 24, 2021: “He’s Not the Messiah”/ Monty Python’s Life of Brian
—Monty Python uses the absurd to free you from the constraints of conformity, to open your mind to possibilities beyond the conventional, to remind you of your freedom, as an individual, to make sense as you please of your time on earth.(more)
March 1, 2020: What Price Wisdom?
—Do you find yourself connected to people here? Do you find yourself fed by wisdom and challenged to act in the world? If so, then this place is changing your life. It’s helping you grow and find meaning and purpose outside yourself. Which is amazing. What’s that worth to you?(more)
February 16, 2020: Celebrating Black Resilience
—How does a community survive, and even thrive, in the face of so many obstacles? How does the Black Community remain resilient?(more)
February 2, 2020: Resilience, Rest, and Resistance
—If resilience is a set of skills you can build and use, grace is beyond that, outside of that. Grace is what happens when your tank of resilience has run dry, and you’re about to fall apart, and a little miracle comes by, just out of the blue.(more)
January 12, 2020: Martyrs, White Lies, and Us
—James Reeb didn’t want to be a martyr, put up on a pedestal. He was a regular guy, a UU just like the rest of us. A guy who, at the right moment, summoned the integrity to do the right thing, even though it was scary. Because his faith gave him courage. Because the word…(more)
December 15, 2019: The Dance of Dark and Light
—Hopes will get dashed. Love always brings with it grief. Families have problems, churches have problems, societies and cultures have problems. There is no light without darkness. In fact, it is the darkness that makes the light so necessary, so bright. The two are intertwined, enmeshed in an eternal dance.(more)December 8, 2019: Faith of the Free
—We pause to remember Channing today, because his ideas were/are important to our faith. His sermon was turning point in the development of our movement. But in addition we remember him because he stands as an example of how to lead in times of turmoil.(more)
December 1, 2019: “Finding Your Road”
—I hope to always have an open and appreciative heart. But it can be hard to be open to the vastness of it all when the journey is difficult. As we jump into the holiday season, we can think of the journey of Mary and Joseph.(more)
November 10, 2019: The Science of Finding Your Divine
—MUUC Member Josh Shortlidge shares about his Hindu devotional meditation practice and how it relates to his UU faith journey.(more)
October 27, 2019: “1619”
—It was 400 years ago that the first Africans were brought to America. That's one year BEFORE the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. The white men who drafted the words “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” did not apply those words to Black Americans, fully one-fifth of the country.(more)
October 6, 2019: “The Promise of Belonging”
—Around 1933, the Williams covenant added "To the end that all souls shall grow into harmony with the Divine". In its time and place, that made a certain amount of sense. But how about now? How about here? Is this 100-year-old covenant we recite every Sunday really a statement of our beliefs or our aspirations?(more)
September 29, 2019: “Atonement / At-one-ment”
—Forgiveness is a process. The person harmed must have the power to decide what happens and when. Forgiveness is separate from justice; it is personal. And forgiveness involves a willingness to let the other, or the self, out of the box called “criminal” or “enemy” or “victim.”; to see the humanity in the other.(more)
