If you’re seeking sacred Black “text” in our tradition, you have to examine the way our Black ancestors lived.

We light this chalice, so that by its light we may read ALL the books…

Queer joy is resistance.

I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.

If you’re trying to build a worship service that's anti-racist and decenters whiteness, you start in one spot.

I offer my "Ouch" with hope and trust.

We have to keep finding ways to widen the circle of care and concern.

To be queer is to know the ways of holding all that shimmers to the light.

We can plant the seeds of love and justice in the world.

Every creature is an embodiment of the Love of the Universe.

In order to be welcoming, the systems of power and privilege in our spaces need to be actively dismantled.

May the beginnings and endings in our stories be held in unconditional love and acceptance.

The 8th Principle is about actively dismantling racism.

Do we who are UUs really believe in the values of our faith enough to enact to them in bold, clear, and unequivocal ways?

A reflection from the Side With Love Sunday worship service.

This reflection was part of Side With Love Sunday 2021.

To be a Unitarian Universalist means we’ll never be done with the work.

As Unitarian Universalists, our journey is to transform the big and the small, to transform ourselves, and to transform the world.

The chalice, as a symbol of Unitarian Universalism, arose as a beacon of hope in an atmosphere of tyranny. The chalice arose as a sign of promise that the marginalized would neither be forgotten nor ignored, because they are beloved and precious from the perspective of the Holy. This morning, we...

I once saw a little sign, carved in wood, that read, “There is only the hard way.” Many of us have been harmed by theology that told us that suffering was a sacrifice that would bring us closer to God. Many of us were told that our suffering would redeem us, even when we knew that actual...