Our UU tradition encourages lifelong spiritual growth, even including that encouragement among the seven principles. But just what does spiritual growth look like? If you described how you have grown spiritually since becoming a UU, what would your description say? This service reflects what we might mean when we speak of spiritual growth and how … Continue reading A Spiritual Facelift
I think of religion as a word of orientation. I don’t think of it as a boxed set of beliefs. And Unitarian Universalism is the religious tradition and community that best orients and informs my life journey and spiritual practice. I’ll introduce a simple organizing understanding I use to give it more form and help … Continue reading My Religious Perspective to Life and Love: A Big Picture Orientation
It goes by different names. Depending on the culture and the people and the period of time in which they found themselves, it’s been called ‘the journey.’ Or ‘the path.’ Or ‘the way.’ But what they all have in common is a spiritual awakening. An alignment to bring their head and their heart and their … Continue reading Walking the Path that Comes to You
The Camino Santiago de Compostella is a path of pilgrims. Although it has, in recent times, been romanticized, it was not established for the romantic. Or the adventurous. It was made for those who were bereft or lost. It was made for those in pain – or whose life consisted of ignoring or resisting pain … Continue reading Buen Camino
In 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsome and the California State Senate and Assembly helped create a Task Force to study the issue of Reparations. It’s premise has been to acknowledge and address the systemic inequities experienced by African Americans exacted by 160 years of slavery on today’s political, legal, financial, cultural, environmental, social standing and rights. … Continue reading The California Reparations Report
