Personal Stories

  • Ideas
    Belief and worship are powerful tools for organizing thought and behavior. If others get control of those tools, they can make us dance like puppets. But if we’re careful, we can learn to pull our own strings.
    Doug Muder
  • Spirit
    The only really upsetting thing about being old is realizing that I'm not going to see how everything comes out.
    Richard D. Leonard
  • Spirit

    I knew the gunman who killed two in a Knoxville church, but I don’t need an explanation for his actions. I need stories of heroes and kindness and compassion.

    Meg Barnhouse
  • Spirit
    People keep secrets for all kinds of reasons, even Unitarian Universalists.
    Doug Muder
  • Spirit
    Finding my path when the choices I made in my twenties didn't work out.
    Manish Mishra-Marzetti
  • Spirit
    Your heart will be worn and joyous, wise and beat up, and full of sorrow and amazement.
    Meg Barnhouse
  • Life
    Four stages of burnout and recovery as the church year draws to a close.
    Doug Muder
  • Spirit

    Facing cancer with lessons learned from my parishioners.

    Forrest Church

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