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All Ages Worship – Our theme this month is curiosity. As we witness flowers popping from the ground this spring, let us bring our curiosity and wonder to the process of growth, change and the birth of new life. We will honor mothers and all who nurture on this all-ages flower communion Sunday, so please … Continue reading Pig’s Egg: A Flower Communion Service
What does it mean to be lucky people? Is good fortune a creation we can bring to pass on our own or are we far more dependent on external circumstances? Rev. Phyllis B. O’Connell recently retired from parish ministry after 25 years. She served the Melrose UU Church for ten years and the UU Society … Continue reading The Lucky People
Unitarian Universalism Today: the state of our faith and its yearning for wholeness. In 1997, the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly passed the Business Resolution calling upon the Unitarian Universalist Association, in all its many forms, an anti-racist and multi-cultural organization. In time, that phrase “anti-racist and multi-cultural’ was a broadened to be “anti-racist, anti-oppressive, … Continue reading The Present Moment: Everything Will Change Again
Diverse paths in spiritually coming to terms with the pain of personal transgressions The Rev. Dr. Robert R.N. Ross is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister in Final Fellowship who is also accredited by the UUA to work specifically with congregations in transition. He has recently been a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the Graduate … Continue reading Cleansing
What UU’s learned through the process of the Welcoming Congregation, not only about our LGBTQIA co-religionists, but also about the process of change. AND THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED SOME MORE Adrienne Rich tried to point out that there was a moment “when the name of compassion was changed to the name of guilt, when the … Continue reading And then everything changed some more…
That sustaining, creating, and transforming current that carried Unitarian Universalism through the 60’s seems to have vanished in the early 1970’s. But it re-emerged from a new source: the Women’s Reformation of Unitarian Universalism. It changed almost everything. The Women’s Reformation In January 1970, right at the beginning of the decade of the 70’s, … Continue reading The Great Reformation
All around the world and throughout all of our history, human beings have found the metaphor of a journey, quest, or adventure especially well-suited for describing the process of coming to understand one’s own self. We find the language of ‘journey’ in myths and legends, religion and spirituality, and even in modern traditions like psychoanalysis. … Continue reading The Inner Quest
In 1961, the Unitarians and the Universalists merged into the present Unitarian Universalist Association. It was also the year that John Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States, proclaiming that “the torch has been passed to a new generation.” The first sit-ins resisting segregation at lunch counters had just begun the previous summer. … Continue reading Dancing in Rhythm with the Times
An elephant figures in one of Unitarian Universalism’s most sacred stories, a story that guided us when we needed some wisdom very badly. But has the story worn well over decades? What have we learned since then? (And no, this is not a sermon about the Republican Party?) Text: The Blind Men and the … Continue reading What Do You Know About Elephants
Contemporary Unitarian Universalism was formed during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Some of the very eldest UU’s still remember those days. It was during these decades that Unitarianism shifted from thinking of itself as “the most enlightened wing of the Protestant Establishment” to staking out an identity as religious non-conformists at odds with the religious mainstream. … Continue reading Marching to the Beat of A Different Drum
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