Spiritual Growth in Chaotic Times
Spiritual growth during chaotic times happens not by avoiding disruption, but by using disorientation as a catalyst for deeper reordering, reliance, and inner transformation.
Speaker: Lori King-Nelson M. Div
Drowning, While Everyone Around Us Can Breathe
We can find ourselves so alone amidst a crowd of family and friends. We wonder why we are the only ones struggling to keep our heads above a rising tide of problems, and ask why no one can see our need.
Radical Counterculturism
Being an effective force against injustice requires a strategic blend of systemic understanding, organized collective action, and sustained personal resilience. Justice literacy, mobilization, action, policy and legal reform, and institution building need all of our voices and gifts.
Breaking Down the Walls
Unity without uniformity reminds people that they are no longer strangers, but unique and valued members of a church family. How do we remove these dividing walls of age, race, class, and culture to build a stronger, more inclusive church?
Making a Bigger Table
Hospitality gets people in the door, but it’s inclusion that ensures they a sense of true belonging. Inclusion allows newcomers to share their gifts and change the culture of the church for the better.
Projecting Deconstruction
Sure, we come to church each Sunday to be a part of a larger community of faiths but ultimately, we are about more than just programming, We are a people learning from each other how to live among each other and sometimes that means learning new ways to love.
A Nation Such as This
Looking for Unicorns
What is our faith really calling us to do?
Occupy Faith
The growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement has presented provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance movement to the Civil Rights movement, churches have played key roles in important social movements, and shows this role is no less critical today
Tango—For Beginners
What makes a Tango a Tango? Rigid definitions and interpretations can inhibit our natural curiosity and growth across our whole lives. When we ask the questions and are open to multiple views, we find there are as many answers as there are people to give them. What makes a…good life? What makes…a Unitarian Universalist? What … Continue reading Tango—For Beginners