The Journey

Even cock-eyed optimists get hit with reality some days. Over on the chip aisle, I passed a couple of store employees loading tortilla chi...

First, I have to explain that I feel loved by God. Profoundly. For me, God is a process, yet one that I can connect with personally, in th...

So if we acknowledge that love is a privilege, but a privilege that we have the power to extend to others, where do we start?  What do we do...

I think that we don't talk about what may be the greatest Privilege. We talk about male, white, heterosexual, American, affluent, midd...

No, I'm not going to become one of those blogs that does nothing but post videos.  But great stuff is happening at Pathways.  One night,...

I know you're busy.  I know this is 34:21 long.  It is worth it.  This is Pastor David Owen O'Quill of Micah's Porch preaching a...

Since so many of you have been on this journey with me, patting me on the back, (kicking me in the butt when I needed it, too) ... I am in...

My children are all in school now.  For the first time in 14 years, it is possible for me to be at home all by myself.  So what am I doing? ...

Well, I didn't anticipate saying this. I have sympathy for Garrison Keillor. I was sitting in my Spirituality class and right now, w...

What should you do with your gay teen?  Take them to church.  Wait now, I need to be a little more specific. Take them to a Unitarian Univ...

Unitarianism, "in its 400-plus-year history, has claimed that humans begin in good shape with the prospect of getting better. We have b...

 Random thoughts on it all * I wondered if I would get emotional when my head was shaved.  Not at all.  I was the first to go and it was s...

Supposedly Luther once wrote, " I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer."  Well, I have s...

One week from right-now-this-second, I will be bald. It would be disingenuous to act like this hasn't affected me at all. Okay ... it ...

At my seminary, classes are done in complete blocks.  So, rather than a 3 hour class meeting for one hour MWF, it meets for 3 hours, once a ...

Emily:  ... Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute? Stage Manager:  No -- Saints and poets maybe -...

The Rev. Christana Wille McKnight wrote a guest post on the uugrowth blog and presented a workshop on the subject at GA 2010.  I wasn't...

Oh, who are the people in your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? Say, who are the people in your neighborhood? T...

We have sacred cows in Unitarian Universalism, and right now, I believe the one treated with the most reverence is the concept of "karm...

Tomorrow, Little Warrior starts kindergarten. I am indulging in some weeping, and watching old videos, in the perhaps vain hope that I wil...