Ideas

Belief and worship are powerful tools for organizing thought and behavior. If others get control of those tools, they can make us dance like puppets. But if we’re careful, we can learn to pull our own strings.

In bookstores, spirituality is packaged as if it’s a pep pill for overworked managers.

Cast your goals in mythic terms to make a lasting difference.

Transcendentalists were divided into several camps, just like their Unitarian Universalist heirs.

Unitarian Universalists have held fast to one aspect of their Puritan roots: congregational polity.

My reasons for reading Hawthorne, Melville, and Dante are hardly noble.

Most Unitarian Universalists live in some kind of tension with Christianity. I wish we talked about this more.

How Unitarian and Universalist religious education evolved over two centuries.

How to find out if your community intentionally excluded African Americans.

A documentary film shows the tragic consequences of mandatory minimum sentences.

James Loewen documents the rise of ‘sundown towns’ and their enduring legacy.

Rod Serling, a Unitarian, confronted prejudice with innovative television scripts.