7 Ways to Enjoy a Death-Free Samhain

Last updated on: October 28, 2015 at 5:00 am By Alison Leigh Lilly

If there’s one thing people like more than having sex, it’s avoiding death and thoughts thereof. So, what better way to capture the attention of a wider audience than to share a list of ways to celebrate a sanitized, commercialized version of this most holy of Pagan holidays? Read more

Kuan Yin

Last updated on: October 27, 2015 at 5:17 am By Dan Harper

Kuan Yin, one of the most gender fluid of Bodhisattvas. "If they must be saved by someone in the body of the wife of an Elder, a layman, a minister of state, or a Brahman, he [sic] will manifest in a wife’s body and speak Dharma for them." Read more

Between The Worlds

Last updated on: October 23, 2015 at 6:22 am By Melanie Morel-Ensminger

Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger shares what Samhain is like in her hometown, New Orleans. Read more

Entering Nature

Last updated on: October 22, 2015 at 5:00 am By Guest Contributor

Mary de La Valette shares another of her poems with us from her home in New Brunswick, Canada. Read more

Samhain, Ancestors, and Descendants

Last updated on: October 21, 2015 at 5:01 am By Rev. Catharine Clarenbach

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

Last updated on: October 20, 2015 at 5:16 am By Dan Harper

Fudo Myoo is a Japanese Buddhist deity, one of the Five Great Kings, or Godai Myoo. Read more

Memoir at Samhain: Hearing our Ancestors, Finding Our Voice

Last updated on: October 19, 2015 at 5:07 am By Amy Beltaine

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

CUUPS Announces 2015 Election Results

Last updated on: October 17, 2015 at 11:40 am By J.K. Hildebrand

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

The Psychology of Tarot

Last updated on: October 16, 2015 at 5:00 am By Allison Ehrman

. . . 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