Explicitly Black UU Healing Spaces: Spiritual Compassion Practice at GA 2016
[A note of gratitude and a heart full of appreciation to the Rev. Carlton Elliot Smith for his generosity, insight, and reflections in the creation of this post. -DV] Last night I began reading...
View ArticleSharing in the Anthropocene
My ethics in terms of economics comes from the first of the Humanist Manifestos: “Humanists demand a shared life in a shared world.” That’s foundational for me. I know that it’s idealistic, but that’s...
View ArticleTrauma Stewardship?
Dear Friends, Happy Autumn! On day one of my summer break a dear friend recommended to me some timely sabbatical reading – Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for...
View ArticleHow Can You Say You Love Me?
The Rabbi Jeffrey Summit [of Tufts Hillel] tells a Hasidic story of the rabbi who watches two Russian peasants drinking together at an Inn. The first asks, “Boris, do you love me?” His friend replies,...
View ArticlePublic Service Reminder
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard An invitation to think about how we are spending our days – for this is how we are spending our “one wild and precious...
View Articlehow we spend our lives…
Back before we became adult adults, my younger sister and I would call each other whenever we were overwhelmed with life and one of us would remind the other: Breathe in. Breathe out. If you forget...
View ArticleProtectors
OK, friends. I’ve been listening. Like all of us, I want to know where we go now. I want the path forward, and a way out of feeling terrified and depressed and hopeless. I don’t know if we are on our...
View ArticleShine on! Faithful living in a breakable world
I spend a lot my time and life energy organizing with the New Orleans community inside the walls of a church with no windows. Hearing my boots crunching on the shattered glass on the floor after a...
View ArticleIn the Name of Love
There has been a lot to process in the Unitarian Universalist world over the past few weeks. I want to take a moment to focus on the calling in that beloveds in our faith have lifted up regarding the...
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