There is a wall, a veil, between our world and the spirit world... the sages and prophets found ways through the wall, they brought back teachings from the spirit world. They left behind signs so that we could find our way through. Some folks who came after, got really into sign making. Some thought that the tunnels through the wall should be enlarged, decorated, celebrated... Some spent their lives making their religion's entrance look more beautiful and inviting than others

In our third and final service in the Simone Weil Series, we'll explore the culminating movement of her thought: DECREATION. I'll get you pointed in the right direction with this teaser: "We do not become just by adding virtue. We become just by subtracting the self that blocks reality." Mic. Drop.

For International Women's Day, we'll continue our exploration of the work of Simone Weil - moving from her work on attention as spiritual practice, to her social justice oriented work on the necessity of duties preceding rights.

On the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For this month, that's Paying Attention. Our teacher in attention is philosopher-mystic Simone Weil.

Greensleeves is one of the oldest and most familiar songs in our tradition—tender, plaintive, and enduring. It has been sung as a love song, a lament, and a prayer, carried across centuries and cultures. This Sunday, we’ll listen to it together, reflect on what it has meant, and consider what it might still be teaching us. We’ll sing it, sit with it, and listen again—trusting that sometimes an old song can open new space when we give it our full attention.

I got on a bus headed south, past San Antonio to a community called Dilley, Texas. There is a modern day American internment / concentration / prison camp there, we call it a detention center. Let's talk about what I saw, what I learned, and what we might all need to learn if we want things to change.

Could it be that one of the most effective ways to subvert a prophet is to turn them into an idol? There is a case to be made that this is what "the church" has done to Jesus. There is a case to be made that this is what American Culture has done with Dr. King. If we toss the idol, maybe we can ask what the prophet was trying to teach.

On (or around) the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For this month, that's Practicing Resistance.

As I reach the midway point of my Doctor of Ministry in Social Justice program at Meadville Lombard — our UU seminary in Chicago — I want to share the heart of what has been unfolding. Stephen Jenkinson has said that we live in a time with more old folks and fewer wise elders than ever before. In this reflection, I’ll explore what it might mean to rescue wise elderhood from western history’s dustbin — to draw a clear, compassionate distinction between wise elders and old adol

On the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For this month, that's Choosing Hope.

When religion forgets its spirit, it becomes a shell — beautiful, perhaps, but hollow. Inspired by Christopher Wallis’s Near Enemies of the Truth, this service explores how both religion and spirituality can lose their way, mistaking form for life or freedom for meaning. Together we’ll remember what religion once promised: to bind us not in dogma, but in wonder — to help us remember the sacred light that first called us to belong. Livestream Available: https://www.youtube.co

You remember the children's rhyme, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Sometimes this landed as good and helpful advice, not to take on the harm that others wanted to inflict on us with their words. Other times, it just feels deeply untrue. For many of us some of the most painful hurts we've ever received have been delivered mostly through words. So, we'll spend some time with this worthy paradox - and hopefully leave with a deepened sense of

What if AI isn't our impending digital overlord, what if it is the catalyst we've been waiting for? A helper as we work to collect, integrate, and practice human wisdom? My journey down this path started at the Peace Summit at Southwestern University a few weeks back, I look forward to sharing some of the early fruit. Listen to the Sermon Here: Or listen here: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/FOf7O0PNbYb Watch the Full Video of Service Here:

We honor our ancestors on Dia de los Muertos with the beautiful Ancestor Altar our community has put together this month. This is such a special time of year and such a special honor for us all to love and remember our departed together as a beloved community. Podcast of the Sermon Available on Youtube

On (or around) the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For the month of November, that's Nurturing Gratitude. Full Video of Service Available on Youtube : Podcast of the Sermon Available on Youtube  and Spotify : Youtube:

This Sunday we'll ask how our Soul Matters theme, of Cultivating Compassion, intersects with our call to Generosity, Generosity of spirit. Generosity with our time, energy, talent and treasure. Podcast of the Sermon Available on Youtube  and Spotify : Youtube: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rPFerU2tkkVohiVPZ3ygj?si=fhmDuQ2-Rj6EmGJ20HTEUQ

On the announcement of our capital campaign, we'll explore the theme of Legacy. There are so many legacies we wish to leave behind: colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, exploitation of people and land... But in order to do that, we must define a positive vision for what will take its place. Podcast of the Sermon Available on Youtube and Spotify : Youtube: Spotify: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/IhgyuMBXgXb Full Video of Service:

We talk a lot about being 'Unitarians'. But do we spend enough time reflecting on what that word means? Where it comes from? Who it...

Every week we practice Joys & Concerns, we practice Gratitudes & Reflections. For those of us in Connections Groups, we have a monthly practice of listening deeply to one another. What does it mean to develop listening as a spiritual practice? If that spiritual practice is more than individual, if it is truly communal, what does that imply? How does our listening hold space for others?

On the first Sunday of each month, we explore our Soul Matters theme. For this month, that's Building Belonging. In his book The...