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Religious community is essential
The central task of the religious community.
By Mark Morrison-Reed 2.1.10 SPIRIT

Cricket's song shows life's fragility
There is a cricket playing the violin in my bathroom.
By Elizabeth A. Lerner 10.19.09 SPIRIT

Be the change
We must become, and learn to think of ourselves as, forces of history.
By Stephen M. Shick 9.14.09 SPIRIT

Prayer for the people of Iran
An Iranian-American holds her breath as hundreds of thousands march for democracy in Iran.
By Parisa Parsa 6.22.09 SPIRIT

Opening words, Summer 2009
A Unitarian Universalist prayer from Kenya.
By Alice Kenunto Magara 5.15.09 SPIRIT

Watching the evidence change
A meditation on the inauguration of President Barack Obama, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
By Rosemary Bray McNatt 1.19.09 SPIRIT

Reading for the day
Love the gift of your life and do no harm.
By Mark Belletini 6.16.08 SPIRIT

It's about time, Persephone!
Ancient myths dramatize the shift from winter to spring.
By Patricia Montley 3.24.08 SPIRIT

Meditation, Spring 2008
A family meditation.
By Edwin C. Lynn 2.15.08 SPIRIT

Feeling like an exile
Do you live in a kind of Babylon?
By John Nichols 12.3.07 SPIRIT

On the death of a child
Buddhist wisdom honors a brief life.
By James Ishmael Ford 11.1.07 SPIRIT

A community bound by love
An affirmation.
By Adam Robersmith 11.1.06 SPIRIT

Only forward
Time and the human spirit.
By Galen Guengerich 11.1.06 SPIRIT

Celebrate the Winter Solstice
Meditation for the longest night.
By Patricia Montley 12.19.05 SPIRIT

Creche surprise
Dramatis personae, wrapped in old newsprint.
By David S. Blanchard 12.12.05 SPIRIT

What do Unitarian Universalists believe?
Unitarian Universalists hold many beliefs in common.
By Commission on Appraisal 11.21.05 SPIRIT

Dawn meditation for the fall equinox
Fall equinox sunrise meditation.
By Anne Peek 9.21.05 SPIRIT

Bubbles of Earth
'Dust thou art,' joyfully recast
By Flora Thompson 5.1.05 SPIRIT

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