Personal Stories

Spirit

Rise in body or in spirit

Truth be told, I don't think I ever took aging seriously or personally, until recent years.

William G Sinkford 3/17/2015
Ideas

Uh oh: We are what we eat

Michael Pollan's 'Omnivore's Dilemma' challenges our eating habits.

Kenneth Sutton 3/17/2015
Spirit

Bearing witness

An interfaith gathering at Auschwitz bears witness to human evil—and the beauty of human diversity.

Barbara Gadon 3/17/2015
Spirit

EJ

'Coming out is kind of like being reborn.'

Kate Gridley 3/17/2015
Spirit

Grief and weariness

Grief has often worn me out, while restoring me to myself at the same time.

Mark L. Belletini 3/1/2015
Life

‘She smiles when she swims’

New Jersey teen sets new world record for open-water swimming.

Nicole Sweeney Etter 2/22/2015
Life

Tarantula

I faced my fears and they faced me. It wasn't that big a deal.

Meg Barnhouse 1/11/2015
Spirit

What can you see from your back porch?

I used to think my grandfather's worldview was limited and small-minded.

Travis Tennessen 12/28/2014
Ideas

A moral divide

Can we reconcile moral certainties with Unitarian Universalist Principles?

Kimberly French 11/3/2014
Spirit

O gremlins, O St. Anthony!

My faith is in science, but I try to keep an open mind.

Meg Barnhouse 10/19/2014
Spirit

I couldn't not go

More than 1,500 Unitarian Universalists took part in the People's Climate March. I was one of them.

Sonja L. Cohen 9/28/2014
Spirit

Chalices, doodling, and meditation

Meditative doodling as a Unitarian Universalist spiritual practice.

Cynthia Landrum 9/21/2014