A pastoral letter to Black UUs
How is it with your spirit today? Today, my spirit is struck by grief.
A practice of relationality
Prayer creates relationship where otherwise there might be none.
Glory fire chalice quilt
A love of bright colors and bold designs
Pandemic
Know that we are connected / in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
Loss, poetry, and the ballast of faith
My UU faith—and my parents’ lived examples—informed my thinking about living and dying, sustaining and influencing me more than I realized.
‘Illegal’ immigrants & legal inhumanity
who are we the people to keep people / from cropping the ‘amber waves of grain’
Constancy
Pearls of catkins / illumine the willow’s branches
All theologies come from a perspective
Contextual theologies seek to change society and the use of power in society.
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
‘The more I worked with it, the more I liked the idea of God’s grace as three sweet teenagers following me around.’
Braiding garlic
In tragic times, we come together in strength and love.
Allowing meditation to be messy
We need to rethink what ‘successful’ meditation looks like.
My grandmother’s grinding stone / El molcajete de mi abuelita
Surviving is made of the shadows of the grinding stone.