The View From Here
Some of us feel beaten down by the state of our country. This is especially true for women and people of color, who have not been granted a seat at the grown-ups’ table for most of our country’s history. Between the Climate … read more.
Earlier this summer I attended a meeting in an unfamiliar church. As I was walking outside, I noticed a little plaque nailed to the main doors. It was about the size of a computer tablet and it read: You are Now Entering Your Mission Field.
This … read more.
Dear Friends,
In honor of the summer, I wanted to share a reading from my UU ministerial colleague, the Rev Kathleen McTigue:
Summer Sabbath
by Rev. Kathleen McTigue
Go someplace you haven’t seen before,
where no one knows you, where you don’t think twice
about what to wear, how to look, … read more.
I love maps. Having spent the first twenty years of life utterly confused and confounded by them, I find them comforting now. I like knowing, for example, that if you were standing in Amsterdam, and decided to walk in a southeasterly direction, say, towards 4:30 on the … read more.
“If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb
A friend sent this quote to me this morning and it seems a perfect reminder of why we come together in religious community. There is so much we have accomplished … read more.
It occurs to me that many of you reading this newsletter are relatively new to our merry band of spiritual seekers and social justice makers. Here is the beginning of an overview of our religious institution, as it relates to membership.
First thing: If you are … read more.
UUSR member, Jane Sherburne, received this poem from a friend in Oregon.
Many UUs participated in the March for Our Lives in various cities on March 24th and the Social Justice Committee sponsored a very well attended Listening Circle on gun safety. What else can we do to … read more.
There is so much going on in the news that disturbs us. Our President is a narcissist of the highest order, with a side helping of impulsivity, an endless desire to roil the waters, and a seeming lack of empathy and compassion.
There are mass shootings far … read more.
I don’t know about you but I was done with February by the beginning of January – the bitter cold snap, the rain, the black ice. The weather is miserable; which makes me want to stay inside and eat and sleep. Then I feel miserable from eating … read more.
It occurs to me that after asking everyone to write a sentence or two about what they were grateful for in the weeks leading to Thanksgiving, we never talked about what people wrote. Of the 40 plus “gratitude leaves”, the vast majority described families. Grandchildren, both the … read more.
