Book to note: ‘The Lively Place’
A fascinating look at the history of Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Blog roundup, Spring 2016
Highlights from the Unitarian Universalist blogosphere, October 2015 to January 2016.
Top ten online
Most frequently visited stories on uuworld.org, October-December, 2015.
A dark night journey
A dark night of the soul is a time of dormancy, fallowness, waiting, potentiality.
Apocalypse soon
How do we live under the cloud of impending apocalypse without giving in to panic?
Black History Month: A time to unlearn
As a child I learned that we had, mostly, overcome. Clues to a deeper truth hid in plain sight.
What climate change says about us
Don’t worry about ‘nature.’ Worry about a species that can’t say, ‘Enough.’
If dignity is inherent, can it be harmed?
What do we mean when we talk about the UU First Principle and inherent dignity?
‘Powerfully, adamantly, dangerously afraid’
A discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s provocative new book Between the World and Me.
Lydia Maria Child: More than a Thanksgiving song
The Unitarian famous for writing ‘Over the River and Through the Wood’ was also an ardent anti-slavery activist.
The chalice and the Force
Why have so many ‘geeks’ found their spiritual home in Unitarian Universalism?
Judged by our judgments
Even in the ‘natural’ world, some things are better than others.