As we wrap up the church year and transition into a new one, there is a lot to celebrate about the work of my first year as your new Director of Religious Education, and there’s a lot to shake off and let go of in order to bring openness and renewed energy into our ongoing … Continue reading What’s Happening in RE – June 2026
“Vernal clouds have turned the starwheel,” and so we begin another church year. Much the same news as this time last summer, but different all the same. New and old names transition on, off, and around the Board. The national unrest we felt weighing us down then continues on today. We are weary, we are … Continue reading June Board Update
Campfire Stories is a documentary film series that features people who are trying to belong to the earth and each other in new and transformative ways. One of their films features a man named Adam Wilson. He runs a community farm that is also an experiment in non-commercial food systems, sustainable living, alternative economies and … Continue reading Flourishing Together (June 2026)
UU minister, Victoria Safford, speaks of curiosity using the metaphor of perception and sight. She writes: “To see, simply to look and to see, is an ethical act and intentional choice; to see, with open eyes, is a spiritual practice and thus a risk, for it can open you to ways of knowing the world … Continue reading Awakening Curiosity (May 2026)
We write this month’s Board update together as a reflection on the merging of past and future. One of us is closing their term as Board chair, and the other is preparing to step into the role. In this moment, we are standing in a threshold that offers a meaningful invitation to reflect and anticipate. … Continue reading May Board Update
Of all our themes this year, Embracing Possibility is arguably most central to our faith. It has distinguished Unitarian Universalists from our beginning. Historically, when others saw depravity and sin at the core of human identity, we saw potential. When many were preaching that this world is fallen, we fell in love with the possibility … Continue reading Embracing Possibility (April 2026)
As we close the month of March, I am encouraged by the ways our congregation has practiced paying attention over the last several weeks. We have come together and worked individually to notice what is emerging in the here and now and to respond to what calls for our care. In this spirit, the Board … Continue reading April Board Update
Alice Walker famously wrote, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” Walker’s words are a beautiful reminder that attention and gratitude go hand in hand. Indeed they are a perfect embodiment of the dominant understanding of attention: that it’s here to … Continue reading Paying Attention (March 2026)
To My Beloved UUFM Community, So many of us are not just aware of injustices occurring at the state, national and global level right now, but feel them very deeply, know or are people that are directly affected, and are struggling with overwhelmed nervous systems and burn out. Balancing activism, self-care and regulation, functioning in … Continue reading What’s Happening in RE – March 2026
This month, our shared theme has been embodying resilience. Resilience is often misunderstood as stoic endurance or quiet survival. However, within our tradition as Unitarian Universalists, resilience is far more alive. It is relational. It is creative. It is grounded in love. It is what allows us not only to withstand adversity, but to continue … Continue reading March Board Update
