Personal Stories

  • Life

    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
  • Life
    The Karma Fairy is laughing her head off at the SUV in my driveway.
    Meg Barnhouse
  • Spirit
    I worshiped the gods of comedy and tragedy long before I worshiped Jesus's God, and I have never stopped leaving gifts at the altar of Dionysus.
    Victoria Weinstein
  • Editorial
    Coming face to face and heart to heart with the reality of slavery.
    William G Sinkford
  • Ideas
    What do Unitarian Universalists need to go deeper?
    Doug Muder
  • Editorial
    Suffering and anxiety are usually just as finite and time-limited as high passion and unalloyed joy.
    William F. Schulz
  • Life
    Don’t give in to the voice that fuels the fires of perfectionism—especially here at the holidays.
    Meg Barnhouse
  • Life

    It was Christmas Eve, a time when any sensible person stays safe in his house with a good book. But then Ben’s reading lamp burned out.

    Doug Muder
  • Spirit
    There's no better context than a family reunion to get over your fears.
    Meg Barnhouse

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