Magic and the Transrational

Last updated on: August 19, 2015 at 5:01 am By Rev. Catharine Clarenbach

The “transrational” is a space in between spaces. A space between what is knowable and unknowable, provable and unprovable. It is a borderland, a land spiritual people have inhabited for millennia. It is the land of magic. Read more

The Grief Police (They Live Inside of Your Head)

Last updated on: August 17, 2015 at 6:06 am By Amy Beltaine

I have worked as a chaplain. I expected to do my grieving well. What I didn't realize is that not only was I totally unprepared for being a daughter who loses a mother, but I also had ideas about how to grieve that simply didn't fit. Read more

Unitarian Universalism and the Anthropocene

Last updated on: August 13, 2020 at 12:26 pm By Valerie Freseman

We know that the dance of evolution is an eternal one- if we can get out of its way. That is why new generations of prophets and activists are born in every generation. Read more

Congregational Paganism Toolbox: Developing a Training Program for Ritual Facilitators

Last updated on: August 11, 2015 at 5:00 am By Kimberly Gier

If every Pagan group has different needs, different ideas about ritual, different relationships in place, how do you create a viable training program that can be widely used? Read more

Tending to Your Joy: Pagan Lessons from Pixar's Inside Out

Last updated on: August 6, 2015 at 6:00 am By Alison Leigh Lilly

Inside Out is a modern-day story of the shamanic journey into the Otherworld, a journey of both self-recovery and self-discovery. Read more

Why I am Still a UU Pagan

Last updated on: August 3, 2015 at 5:00 am By Liz Fisher

Liz Fisher explains why after decades of involvement in both the UU and Pagan movements why she still considers herself to be a UU Pagan. Read more

One Earth

Last updated on: July 29, 2015 at 5:58 am By Guest Contributor

Mary de La Valette shares one of her poems from her home in New Brunswick, Canada. She has written for CUUPS publications since the 1980's. Read more

Discovering UUA Principles in Alaska

Last updated on: July 28, 2015 at 5:30 am By Peter Dybing

Being in Alaska is disorienting, living with 22 hours of sunlight brings one to appreciate what feels like a relentless Solstice. Surrounded by boundless expanses of green it feels as if Gaia herself is holding onto the light; letting summer continue to hold sway upon the land in a never ending dance of joyous divinity. All that grows stands at the foundation of mighty glaciers that remind those that behold the sight of a basic truth of nature, that the darkness... Read more

Community vs. Spirituality: Why Does it Feel Like a Battle?

Last updated on: July 27, 2015 at 5:30 am By Molly Khan

Most religious organizations need both dedicated religious people as well as those who like to show up and chat. So why does it often feel like a fight? Are spiritually-minded people trying to drag the socializers kicking and screaming to religion? Read more

Retreats, Consensus, and Death and Dying

Last updated on: July 24, 2015 at 5:00 am By Maggie Beaumont

We used to say that the ‘personal’ is ‘political.’ From my perspective today, the ‘magickal’ is ‘medical,’ and vice versa. Read more