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a $aving sort of grace (thoughts on shame and stewardship)
I love this post from UU Robin Bartlett Barraza, about how her family finds God and grace at a UCC church on Sunday afternoons. Robin’s words evoke the loving embrace of community, a welcome extended...
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warning: this post is about S-E-X
Not long ago, I was studying in a coffee shop in the late hours of the evening. It’s a beautiful place to read—high ceilings of hammered tin, warm woods, a banistered staircase to the loft-style art...
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Dear Raising Faith: on pastoral care for humanists
This guest post, from “Alicia,” asks what Unitarian Universalism, and what our ministers, specifically, might have to offer in times of personal crisis. These are great questions, and I’m happy to put...
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Sanity NOW! (perhaps yelling helps?)
These are my babies, Si and Ren, at our church on Easter. On the one hand, I love this picture. My boys look like their handsome, irrepressible selves on a beautiful spring day in a place that means...
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don’t talk to strangers (listen to them instead!)
Last month I took an intensive course in Unitarian Universalist Congregational Polity–and heard something from our instructor that frightened me: “Unitarian Universalism as we know it isn’t going to...
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rocks, rivers, and rough transitions
Tonight I attended an incredibly inspiring presentation from our church’s Lifelong Learning Task Force. Together, a diverse team of leaders shared a vision of religious education–for kids, for adults,...
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parenting and other cruelties
It’s like this: Silas, a tiny imp at three, hair like a supernova, blue eyes lit with mischief, turns away from my gentle chiding and walks slowly, purposefully, down the hallway. His newly...
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Are you there, God? It’s me . . . the girl who never shuts up.
My minister tells a story about deciding, as a child, that she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up. In fact, if I remember right, her realization was that she needed to be one. So she wrote her...
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I love to watch you play: (or, why I will not be homeschooling my 6 year old)
I love to watch you play. This post explains that these six words might change my life. A friend shared it on facebook this afternoon, and I almost didn’t click. I have things to do—that’s, uh, why...
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You’re In the (Lord’s) Army Now! UU ministers on moving from “congregant” to...
This series of posts arose from a discussion among Meadville Lombard students about surprises (some lovely; others less so) that “seminarian” status has brought to our relationships with our home...
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Fear and Loathing In These Pages
Sometimes I have so much to say that the limiting factors are time and typing speed. Sometimes I am so deeply challenged by everything that’s going on that all I could write would be a list of...
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yes, mothers, somebody needs you: to be YOU.
This past week I’ve seen this post again and again. It seems to strike a needed nerve with some of my facebook friends, and so they share, often with a personal testimonial. The sharers are some of...
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anger: a love story
I love my friends and my family. They are amazing, creative, funny, loving people. And, like me, they are imperfect. They make mistakes. They have done things, sometimes, that were hurtful, or...
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A Letter to a New Minister (Kendyl Gibbons, on the occasion of my ordination)
My dear Jordinn, You are to be congratulated for your courage, if nothing else, in thus affording me yet one more opportunity to offer you instruction, just in case all my prior efforts now appear to...
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