Kaaren Solveig Anderson

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For a long time now, I haven’t believed in a god with a will, intentionality, or consciousness. I don’t put all my eggs in the basket of a god who will save and transform me. Rather, I look to humans, to my relationships with people. Transcendence with life, with the holy, comes through my human...

Reading | By Kaaren Solveig Anderson | April 20, 2017 | From WorshipWeb

I hate goodbyes. I hate everything about them. It bothers me that “goodbye” isn’t really what I think we most often want to say. When those I love leave me, or I leave them, goodbye isn’t what I want to say. I want to tell them that their warm hand on my cheek, which caught my desperate...

Reading | By Kaaren Solveig Anderson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

My friend Marcy and her boyfriend Brian recently ate dinner at a local Chinese restaurant. As they enjoyed a plate of lo mein, engrossed in conversation, a hand reached down and ushered away their platter of noodles....

Reading | By Kaaren Solveig Anderson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

When I was a child, the day after Thanksgiving was steeped in ritual. Every year my family would travel to Chicago for the holiday festivities. Our tour was always the same: We'd tromp up and down Michigan Ave., admiring store windows with animated mechanical dolls that served as actors for the...

Meditation | By Kaaren Solveig Anderson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Drawing from a 'weird and highly focused comfort zone.'

Image | By Kaaren Solveig Anderson | July 21, 2013 | From UU World

Download the PDF of this discourse. When I see them walking down my driveway, I hide. I crouch behind a chair in the living room, tell the kids to be quiet, and wait. The doorbell rings. "I'll get it!" yells one of my kids. "No –no- no!" I say. "Be quiet, act like we aren't home." "What is your...

By Kaaren Solveig Anderson | March 24, 2009 | From Gould Discourse

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