Personal Inspiration

  • Life
    One year after a gunman opened fire in the Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, the congregation’s minister reflects on the spirituality that has sustained his people.
    Christopher Buice
  • Spirit
    People probably thought my parents were hippies because we were out-of-the-closet Unitarian Universalists.
    Laura Pedersen
  • Spirit

    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
  • Spirit
    The most important thing Samboon taught me was how to speak from my deepest and most grounded place.
    Rain T. Van Den Berg
  • 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
  • Editorial
    In our churches, we should be sorcerer’s apprentices in the art of quenching thirst and opening the doors of meaning. Why, then, are we so scared?
    Christine C. Robinson
  • Ideas
    Faith is what’s left when you stop responding to radical uncertainty with panic and denial.
    Doug Muder

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