Personal Stories

  • on the bus to the vigil
    Spirit
    General Assembly needs good social action, but in our diverse faith it needs other things, too.
    Doug Muder
  • Life
    An hour spent looking through old recipes is like a visit with old friends.
    Nancy Bentley
  • Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna
    Spirit

    An odyssey into my family’s religious past.

    Lenore Hirsch
  • Spirit
    Unitarian Universalists are precisely the people who can’t believe whatever they want.
    Doug Muder
  • grim reaper
    Life

    I remember exactly when I first became afraid of death in a more-than-childish way.

    Doug Muder
  • Spirit
    Pretending I’m self-sufficient at the Family Dollar store.
    Meg Barnhouse
  • Illustration of a boy playing with a stick.
    Editorial

    I was watching my son through the dim reflection of myself, weighing my own childhood against his.

    Tom Montgomery Fate
  • Spirit
    The ‘I’ of me is a snapshot of something in motion.
    James Ishmael Ford
  • Spirit
    We do ourselves a real disservice when we discount our bodies as unworthy of reverence.
    Laura Randall

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