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 […]
October 26, 2025: (Also available as a Podcast!) Thich Nhat Hanh stated: “To look deeply into the suffering of those who have caused us to suffer is a miraculous gift.” Gift? […]
October 19, 2025: Compassion says, “I am with you in your pain and I will help.” It may be easy to say for someone we view as similar, but less easy when someone looks different from the outside. […]
October 12, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) Both empathy and compassion begin as inside jobs, empathy being our feeling of what someone else is feeling, and compassion being the action we take in response to those feelings. This Sunday, we cultivate […]
October 5, 2025: (Also available as a podcast!) Many of us were taught to be cautious of strangers. As we go about our day, we usually interact with family, friends and coworkers. These relationships can help us feel cared for and connected. But what if […]
