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By Rev. Janet Onnie May 18, 2025             “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” If you’re a subscriber to process theology, all seasons are seasons for change.  As we heard in the reading, “We must choose every moment how we will relate to the new world aborning in our midst.”              The events of these past few months have given us a glimpse of one possible ‘new world’ aborning.  And it’s not one designed to soothe anxiety.  T

by Rev Janet Onnie May 11, 2025 I have mixed feelings about preaching on Mothers Day – balancing terror and wonder.  Terror because I know that no matter what I say at best I’m going to leave someone out.  At worst I’ll going to engender painful memories.  I worry about the responses of women who have – by chance or by choice -- not had children.  Or have buried their children.  Or given them up.  Or lost them to circumstances way, way beyond their control.  Or simply don’t l

by Merle Wenger May 5 2025 UU Minute James Luther Adams (1901-1994) was a prominent Unitarian Universalist theologian and a significant figure in 20th-century liberal religious thought. Born in 1901 in a small Nebraska town, Adams faced a challenging youth that shaped his commitment to social justice and religious pluralism. He studied at several institutions, including Harvard Divinity School, where he was influenced by both Unitarianism and the pragmatism of philosophers l

by Ben Campbell April 27, 2015 I want to begin by saying that you might not agree with everything I am about to say – and that’s OK. It’s OK in Unitarian Universalism far more than it is in any other faith I know of. If you look around on the HUU website, you’ll find a pamphlet titled 100 Questions That Non-Members Ask About Unitarian Universalism. One thing it says is “We do not believe that any religious precept or doctrine must be accepted as true simply because some relig

By Rev. Kirk Ballin February 23, 2025 Revolutionary Love By Dayna Edwards I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for my faith. My faith that our collective love united can drown out the evils of empire and hate and greed; Together we create a love energy more powerful than any force of oppression. Because When two or more people are gathered side by side, arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder the force of love ignites liberation. Revolutionary love calls us to know ourselves deeply see