The opportunity to engage in the Parliament Of the Worlds Religions offers a unique opportunity for our UU community . . . This is the chance to live our sixth principle “The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all”. Read more
Autumn beats like a pulse through the years, but the blood is always moving and the heart always remains. We feel the contraction in the land around us, the breathing in, the tension of something drawing close. Read more
The Fall 2015 issue of the CUUPS Podcast features "The Mother of Us All" a Dec. 2013 sermon from Rev. Arvid Straube where he speaks about the Virgin of Guadalupe and the feminine face of the Divine. Read more
Some folklorists believe Pandora’s Box has become a metaphor for a woman’s womb. Perhaps being forced to have children against her will is a punishment for the woman opening her “box” when she has been forbidden to do so. Read more
Mortal [humans] suppose that the gods are born as they themselves are, and that they wear human clothing and have human voice and body. - Xenophanes Read more
For me compassion is the centerpiece of effective radical social justice. If we engage in “calling people in” to compassion based discussion instead of “calling them out” for unacceptable beliefs are we not being more effective in our social justice work? Read more
As a UU minister who is also a Pagan, I find myself fairly regularly trying to create Pagan-themed worship for UU Sunday morning services. This can be quite a challenge. Unitarian Universalist congregations have inherited our worship template from Protestant Christianity. We have amended it quite a bit by, for example, dramatically expanding the sources for readings, altering the words to hymns, and preaching thematically rather than basing the sermon on a particular biblical text. However, the basic form remains... Read more
. . . instead of “calling out” those who deny cultural appropriation, my intent is to “call you in “ too deeper understanding, deeper reflection and a more complex understanding of the damage that is being experienced by other cultures. Read more
...as Pagans, we don’t find outrageous clothing or amazing haircolor or remarkable tattoos the least bit odd. So how is it that we are continually, accidentally, thoughtlessly rude to People of Color who come to worship in nature with us? Read more
I will never be black, or brown, and therefore I will never be able to speak for my UU and Pagan peers of color. I will never just know the truth of their stories, their hurts, and their longing. What I can do is listen. Read more
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