Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger shares what Samhain is like in her hometown, New Orleans. Read more
Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger shares what Samhain is like in her hometown, New Orleans. Read more
Mary de La Valette shares another of her poems with us from her home in New Brunswick, Canada. Read more
Samhain is a high holy day—for some of us the holiest night of the year—and I try to celebrate it with the solemnity and glory it merits. Samhain expanded is all about the ethic of responsibility, expressed through calling out to ancestors and descendants, those who live in the shadows beyond the Veil of Life-and-Death. Read more
Fudo Myoo is a Japanese Buddhist deity, one of the Five Great Kings, or Godai Myoo. Read more
Memoir – Samhain, All Souls, Day of the Dead. This time of year the veil between the living and mystery is thin and we remember our those who have gone before. Memory can lighten the burden of grief, create meaning, or create a container for the next chapter. What is your memoir? What is your story? We need your voice. In a voiced community we all flourish! My mother raised my sister and me on stories. When I flip through our photo... Read more
The members of CUUPS voted and stand in solidarity with the Unitarian Universalist Association for the adoption of organizational statements on the following: Commit2Respond Statement on Climate Change (commit2repond.org) and "Showing up for Justice" #BlackLivesMatter (standingonthesideoflove.org) Read more
. . . I began my experiment. To my delight, the article had been correct. The cards never told me my future, but they did tell me my present more clearly than I had ever been able to see it. Read more
...the means to stop this mass killer are directly within our grasp. May the Goddess grant us the compassion, wisdom, and will to find and use them quickly. Read more
I am also overwhelmed with joy at my life – that I refused to settle for anything less than the standards he set in love and life, and that I will no longer wear the masks others try to set upon me. Read more
The Dipper Mother [Doumu] is a star deity and a Daoist adoption of the Tantric deity Marici, a personification of light and dawn. Read more
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