All Hallows Eve, Día de Muertos, All Souls, and All Saints days invite us each autumn to remember our ancestors and our beloveds who have died. These tender days on the way to winter even open a window to working on our relationships with those who have gone before us. In a service steeped in […]
This Sunday marks the beginning of a month exploring living love through the practice of repair. We live in a time where there is so much to repair,How do we even begin? Do we even have the energy to begin? And things are still breaking!What needs repair or healing?How does the lens through which we […]
The Sunday after a presidential election is a Sunday we need to be together. What story will we tell ourselves about what happened and why? Will that story destroy by reinforcing a sense of us vs them, or will it restore by building a metaphorical ark that will hold everybody up?No matter the election outcome, […]
The theological topic of “soteriology” has to do with how a given religious tradition perceives salvation, deliverance, preservation, or release – the what, the why and the how of repair at the deepest levels. We Unitarian Universalists claim that the what, the why and the how of repair in these very human lives of ours […]
Can what’s been repaired be more beautiful than what was broken? Kintsugi, the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold is a worthy metaphor for our lives as it reminds us that embracing imperfections can create a more beautiful and resilient “us” where the “scars” of our brokenness can be part […]
