Constancy
Pearls of catkins / illumine the willow’s branches
The problem with wilderness
The American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script.
Breakthrough Congregation: Teens lead the way
A Breakthrough Congregation’s teen-led religious education program revitalizes First Religious Society in Carlisle, Massachusetts.
The existential issue of our time
Unitarian Universalists are getting involved with growing climate action network Extinction Rebellion.
Shadow
‘Birds represent the glorious continuation of their extinct dinosaur ancestors.’
Climate crisis invites us to imagine regenerative economy
The crushing interconnectedness of our world’s problems can be leveraged to create a comprehensive solution.
UUs nationwide join Global Climate Strike
Congregations show widespread support for largest mass action for climate justice.
Two photographs
Visual meditations.
The black oak is a bodhisattva
Simply by existing, it serves many others. For human beings, the work of the bodhisattva is a path of kindness, the choice to serve others as a way of life.
Conch shell
The tides slowly wear away at the ragged and scraped edges where we tore ourselves out, and what is left behind is as smooth as breath.
Painting is a spiritual practice and a life coach
What delights me in watercolor is ‘the moment of magic,’ when water touches pigment and flows with a transparent life of its own.
Unitarian Universalists among leaders of youth climate strikes
Young Unitarian Universalists helped organize student walkouts in several cities on March 15 to demand action on climate change.