January 18, 2026: Resistance in social-political spheres is often rooted in trying to keep things as they are or getting things back to where they were, a kind of “restorative resistance” that ultimately bolsters the status quo. […]
January 11, 2026: (Also available as a podcast!) The whole idea of “resistance” pushes people’s buttons. Sometimes our response comes from a discomfort with or rejection of the idea of resistance, and sometimes the button that’s pushed […]
January 4, 2026: (Also available as a podcast!) For the past several years Rev. Kevin has invited people to choose a word for the year. Some of us travel with the word all year, […]
December 21, 2025: Just hours after the solstice, on this first morning of winter, we pause in our busy-ness to notice and know that there is always a light. […]
December 14, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) As our Soul Matters authors write, “Hope doesn’t just whisper ‘It will be different,’ it also shouts, ‘It should be different’ and ‘It can be different.’ . . . In other words, hope doesn’t just promise […]
December 7, 2025: It’s been hard lately, hard to hold on to hope, hard to imagine world peace. Utah Phillips knew how to imagine and create a better world. In this month of “choosing hope,” and in these “hard times,” we celebrate the passion, vision and compassion of Utah Phillips, a founding member of UUCM, organizer […]
November 30, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) Transitioning from the gifts of November’s focus on cultivating gratitude, to December’s theme of choosing hope, we draw on the tradition of Advent (meaning “arrival”), a season of […]
November 16, 2025: In this recipe exchange of sorts, we’ll share with each other some of the gratitude tools, techniques, tips, insights – gratitude recipes – we’ve garnered over our years. What’s your […]
November 9, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) One year out from the 2024 presidential election, many of us feel the weight and the worry of the unmaking of so much of what evidenced or supported, if often imperfectly, our values in the life of the nation. We like to say […]
November 2, 2025: As the nights lengthen and the days become noticeably shorter (and we set our clocks back an hour!), we find ourselves, yet again, in the time between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice. Known by names such as […]
