Personal Stories

Ideas

Who says Unitarian Universalism's Principles are easy?

The UU Principles are demanding enough to make me whine.

Meg Barnhouse 11/23/2009
Life

The DIY spiritual practice

A spiritual practice my wife and I cobbled together, the Unitarian Universalist way.

Doug Muder 11/16/2009
Spirit

Peasant revolutionary

A paradoxical power is revealed in people the world despises, in people the world deems weak.

Wendy Fitting 11/9/2009
Life

Rough magic

Maybe I went too far mixing V8 and Pop Rocks, but life isn’t always sweet.

Meg Barnhouse 10/26/2009
Spirit

The last aria

There is a cricket playing the violin in my bathroom.

Elizabeth Lerner Maclay 10/19/2009
Spirit

A spark of understanding

My first encounter with Unitarianism.

Bernadette Siegel 9/14/2009
Life

From mother to gypsy

Saying goodbye to the home where I raised my children.

Meg Barnhouse 8/10/2009
Spirit

A natural aptitude

People probably thought my parents were hippies because we were out-of-the-closet Unitarian Universalists.

Laura Pedersen 7/20/2009
Spirit

‘My soul, like a homing bird’

An Iranian-American holds her breath as hundreds of thousands march for democracy in Iran.

Parisa Parsa 6/22/2009
Spirit

Vanessa’s garage

Volunteering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—and the aftermath of my diagnosis with ALS—has helped me appreciate the complexity of asking for, and offering, help.

Mary J Harrington 6/15/2009
Spirit

Lessons from an elephant sage

The most important thing Samboon taught me was how to speak from my deepest and most grounded place.

Rain T. Van Den Berg 5/25/2009
Life

Graduation day

Parenthood makes life serious and challenges you to push past limitations you have accepted too easily. But those issues don’t go away when you decide not to have children.

Doug Muder 5/10/2009