Touchstones

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which...

We’ve been thinking together about pluralism this month. We’ve had sermons and blog posts and even some linguistically and culturally...

I was invited to participate in a recent Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) learning trip to Poland so that I could visit...

In our garden, every plant relies on the others around it—roots intertwine, and life-giving resources like water and nutrients are...

When I was in seminary, I took an ethics class—it was required for the obvious reasons. Of the many important things I was told, one...

A public friend, a member of the clergy from another religion, once kidded with me that Unitarian Universalists must have it easy around...

When my son was young he loved to play with the Hasbro toy “Transformers.” One moment the toy was a dump truck and the next, after...

So often we worry about “fairness.” We want everyone to be treated the same. To have equal opportunities. But the reality is that we...

Perhaps you know the ecological restoration story of wolves being reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, but do you know what this...

To love and to all friends I will sing, I will sing, to love and to all friends I will sing. To love and to all friends who pain and sorrow...

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Generosity is often...

I share my life with a household that started in Baltimore but which has grown and moved as the laborers with whom I have shared my home...

It’s a pleasure to be writing to the UUCSR community for the first time as your Associate Minister for Member and Community Engagement....

As we begin another congregational year, your ministers want you to know that we are here with you. Sometimes people have said that they...

I read a recent article in The Atlantic which noted that about 40 million Americans, 12 percent of the population, had stopped going to...

The recent Annual Meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association—we call it General Assembly or “GA”—decided by an overwhelming...

I made a mistake: I was speaking about someone and I used a pronoun which does not match their chosen identity. It was in a public space. I...

Bittersweet. It’s one of those words we can’t really understand until we experience it. When sorrow mingles with appreciation and...

I am delighted, these days, to take a walk around the Town Dock in Port Washington, to be just-a-little-jealous of people walking their...

In this season of Membership Renewal, we acknowledge and celebrate the unique creative energy which each person brings to the life of this...

May is just around the corner—and with it the month’s learning and worship theme, Creativity. At Shelter Rock, creativity is present in...