The story of Atlas and the lessons it teaches us about our own free will and choices. Split Plate Offering: National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) If you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the service live on our YouTube channel found HERE: If you have problems streaming, please let … Continue reading Forging our Own Destinies
I like to think I don’t regret anything. Or at least I want to live a life where I don’t regret anything and yet, ummm, it’s kind of impossible!! Seriously, wouldn’t it be great to have lived such a life? One in which we got it right, all the time? Unfortunately, we don’t, do we, … Continue reading The Ghosts of Regret
Come ready to welcome in the sun with ancient tales, drumming, song, a little magic, and welcoming back the light. Split Plate: Amplify POC If you are not able to join us in person, we will be streaming the service live on our YouTube channel found HERE: If you have problems streaming, please let the … Continue reading Solstice Service 4:30 pm (No morning service)
The season’s best stories seem innocently produced at first blush, but when you dig a little deeper, turns out they had your pocketbook first and foremost in mind. But have no fear, as they say, the truth can set you free, and your pocketbook with it, because in the end, my friends, you are the … Continue reading Up On The Housetop
Oh how we can get stuck in the pain! I hate it when people claim it’s as easy as “brush it off” or just “forget about it.” I want to look at what it takes to move past the pain, and in a sense, get in right relationship with it, so we can repair the … Continue reading When Painful Memories Just Won’t Go Away
Our yearly ritual of story and memory come together in this service of celebrating all that we gained from those we’ve loved and lost and bravely moving forward as we integrate those blessings into our living and loving. Split Plate Offering: Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum If you are not able to join us in person, we … Continue reading Lilly’s Legacy
My husband Scott and I have friends who are organic farmers. They’ve ran a very successful regional organic/heirloom seed business for a decade. This summer, they shut it down. They are done with the capitalistic market economy and all it represents. And they are now participating in the “gift economy.” Not a barter or bitcoin … Continue reading Listening to the Seeds
It’s the season of Yom Kippur, the high holy days for Jews. A time to reflect on where we miss the mark, and learn from it, especially when we listen to our guilt. I know that’s a bizarre and unusual thing for a UU minister to do, but trust me, it can be healing, … Continue reading Dinosaur Envy
We are living in strange times. All around the country (even in MA), school districts and some public libraries are instituting draconian measures that seek to exclude a great many people from the truth, creative expression, and liberty. If anything, Unitarian Universalism is a faith of open expression and free thinkers. The American Library Association’s … Continue reading Why can’t I read that?
What does it take to live a life wholeheartedly and fully? It seems to me it involves some retrospection and more than a few valiant leaps into the unknown by getting into right relationship with who you are and who you want to be, and then…well, jumping. That’s right. What tightrope are you willing to … Continue reading Before I Die, I Want To. . .
