Kris Willcox is a contributing editor for UU World. She is a writer and Unitarian Universalist with roots in the mountain west and a home in the Boston area. She spends her days writing for universities and other nonprofit organizations. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Vela, Cimarron Review, Literary Mama, and other publications.
Learn more about Kris Willcox on UUA.org.
By Kris Willcox
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In cohousing communities, UU seniors are finding new ways to ‘age in place’Kris WillcoxFrom LifeNearly 13 percent of cohousing residents identify as Unitarian Universalists, according to a 2012 survey.
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‘Always in beta’Kris WillcoxFrom IdeasThe Church of the Larger Fellowship celebrates seventy-five years of innovative ministry.
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What we want at the endKris WillcoxFrom EditorialTalking about how we hope to die can help avoid needless suffering for our loved ones as well as for ourselves.
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Genre makeoverKris WillcoxFrom IdeasIn conventional women’s fiction, writer Olive Higgins Prouty created a bold new type of heroine.
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Exploring ACLU Co-Founder Roger Nash Baldwin's Defense of Civil LibertiesKris WillcoxFrom IdeasBorn into a privileged Unitarian family, Baldwin went on to champion Constitutional freedoms and democratic principles.
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Roger Nash Baldwin, Unitarian co-founder of ACLUKris WillcoxFrom Ideas
Unitarian co-founder of the ACLU helped to define and defend civil liberties.
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Humanism at 100Kris WillcoxFrom IdeasAcross a century of change, Humanism has continued to evolve.
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Nathaniel Currier, printmaker of the American mythosKris WillcoxFrom IdeasPrintmaker Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) grew up Unitarian and later joined the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York.
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A life of magic and ministryKris WillcoxFrom IdeasJohn Nicholls Booth found acclaim and controversy in a career that took him from stage to pulpit.
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A record of things wonderfulKris WillcoxFrom EditorialAn atheist reckons with God, kids, and the Unitarian Universalist church.
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At 150, Beatrix Potter continues to delightKris WillcoxFrom IdeasThe beloved children’s author was also a talented scientific illustrator and conservationist.
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James Lord Pierpont and the mystery of 'Jingle Bells'Kris WillcoxFrom IdeasThe debate over where the Unitarian wrote the holiday favorite rages on. -
Charles Follen’s Christmas treeKris WillcoxFrom IdeasHow a man whose passions were religious freedom and the abolition of slavery came to be known as the father of American Christmas trees.
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‘I see you. You’re there. You’re not forgotten.’Kris WillcoxFrom Life
The Church of the Larger Fellowship’s Worthy Now Prison Ministry serves nearly 1,000 people in prison.
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Still hungryKris WillcoxFrom Spirit
In my religious journey, I’m glad to be free, but I am still hungry.
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The spectrum of inclusionKris WillcoxFrom LifeUnitarian Universalist communities are learning to value the many forms of neurodiversity.
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E.E. Cummings’s ‘firstness’Kris WillcoxFrom Ideas
Cummings proclaimed the primacy of individual experience.