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UU News

I Am Called to Show Up for Climate Justice

I am a college student, but more urgently, I am a young Unitarian Universalist working to save my future.

11/3/2021
Editorial

The art of living through a pandemic

During the AIDS era, the saving presence of art in my life enabled me both to grieve full time and to serve as a minister full time.

Mark L. Belletini 6/1/2020
Spirit

Deep magic

I’ll keep being open to deep magic until I find a way to believe in it.

Meg Barnhouse 3/1/2019
Spirit

One Unitarian Universalist’s way

Finding myself on the Camino de Santiago.

Rachel Mize 3/1/2019
Spirit

Where there can be no words

I go for fierce landscapes every chance I get.

Jane Ranney Rzepka 2/18/2019
Spirit

So simple anyone can do it

You just sit in a chair and write, right?

Meg Barnhouse 1/30/2019
Spirit

On the days I eat

Music is a spiritual discipline for me. And I only need to practice on the days I eat.

Colleen M. McDonald 6/1/2018
Spirit

Diverse baptisms

The first time, I emerged merely breathless, wet, and cold.

Jim Sherblom 3/1/2018
Spirit

Schrödinger’s father

The impending death of a loved one often leaves us sitting in a between-state.

Kenneth Sutton 3/1/2018
Life

Holiday traditions, tangled up like lights

The holiday season can be a tangled web of memory, tradition, longing, and joy.

Meg Barnhouse 12/21/2017
Spirit

Of course I’m racist

Unlike many Unitarian Universalists, I was brought up openly racist. I’ve made progress, and I still have a long way to go.

Doug Muder 9/1/2017
Spirit

For appropriate seasonal seediness

We are all dependent on seeds, literally and metaphorically.

Jinny Batterson 9/1/2017