The choice to bless the world can take you into solitude to search for the sources of power and grace, native wisdom, healing, and liberation. More, the choice will draw you into community, the endeavor shared, the heritage passed on, the companionship of struggle, the importance of keeping faith, the life of ritual and praise, the comfort of human friendship, the company of earth, its chorus of life welcoming you.

None of us alone can save the world. Together—that is another possibility, waiting.

— THE REV. DR. REBECCA PARKER

features
Bitter Harvest

Millions of people are enslaved across the globe making products we use every day. /BY KIMBERLY FRENCH

SIDEBAR Boycotts Don't Always Help
SIDEBAR Meet the New UU Aboltionists
SIDEBAR What Your Congregation Can Do

Dancing through life
Poet, performance artist, and UU minister Ric Masten still makes art out of life as he battles terminal prostate cancer. /BY FRANCES CERRA WHITTELSEY

Unlikely Ambassador
Entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood finds new meaning in the interdependent web of the grasslands and locusts of Wyoming and Kazakhstan. /BY JEFFREY A. LOCKWOOD