A long time ago, in the 1970s, there was a kind and curious woman named Lucile Shuck Longview. She was a Unitarian Universalist and loved her UU church in Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1975, Lucile got to travel to Mexico City as a UU delegate to be part of the United Nations “Women’s Year” assembly. This … Continue reading TouchPoints September Wisdom Tale: The First UU Water Communion

Imagine if you were to take each of the minutes you lived in any given day and put them in one of two columns – one for those minutes where you were present in the reality of the moment and the others in a column for those moments where you were lost in your imagination … Continue reading Imagine…..

It is a phrase I find myself repeating often. “Every voice matters.” Now I know what you may be thinking right now. Does every voice matter? Well ok, that’s a fair question when we consider the loud, often violent and harmful voices that are on the main stage of politics right now. For the sake … Continue reading Every Voice Matters

With the recent passing of President Jimmy Carter I have been thinking a lot about the stories that we tell about each other. While watching a documentary about President Carter I was reminded that even former Presidents have little control over these narratives and it made we wonder, can a story ever really be fully … Continue reading The Rest of the Story….

“What did you just say?” It’s a question I find myself yelling at my newsfeed all too often. After another bizarre claim about migrants or women or trans folk I find myself wanting to do anything but listen. How could I and maybe more importantly, should I, be listening when the speaker is so off … Continue reading What Did You Say?

It sounds obvious, but one of the simplest ways to improve our active listening is to focus less on what we want to say and more on what the other person is saying. Here are a few strategies to help you with this simple-but-not-always-easy practice: Slow down the pace of your speaking a bit. Get … Continue reading Asking “Listening” Questions

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Who doesn’t love a nice invitation? It’s great to be invited to a party or to a new job or just to the movies. And yet…. Sometimes the power of invitation is in knowing when to shut the door and say, “no, thank you.” I love the Rumi poem that we shared in Touch Points … Continue reading The Invitation

September’s Spiritual Practice Offering from Your Director of Spiritual Development There’s a Hebrew word that appears 74 different times in the Bible that doesn’t have a clear English translation: Selah. It’s a pointer to the spiritual concept of taking a pause and just allowing things to be as they are. Sometimes that pause is indicated … Continue reading Pressing the Pause Button