- Here, Together: February 2021 January 27, 2021
What a month we have just come through!
The day after the Jan. 6 insurrection, many of us gathered virtually at the fellowship. We lit candles for the values we were struggling to center in our lives. We shared painful emotions and asked searching questions about national and individual identity. And the day after, a group ...
- Here, Together: January 2021 December 28, 2020
It’s been quite a year. In hindsight, it seems like so many of us fumbled our way through much of 2020 as though it were a parenthesis, a temporary time away from all we’d taken for granted as “normal.” We placed our lives within brackets and then looked ahead to the moment, presumed to be ...
- Here, Together: December 2020 November 23, 2020
It’s a favored holiday tradition for Unitarian Universalists. At the end of the annual Christmas Eve service, people stand waiting and expectant, each holding an unlit candle. Just as the first bars of “Silent Night” begin to sound, someone dims the sanctuary lights. And there, in the dark and in the hush, as people sing ...
- Here, Together: November 2020 October 28, 2020
November, 2020. How will this historic moment be remembered 100, 50, or even 10 years from now?
We are all, of course, always seeding the future with our actions (and our omissions, as it has become so painfully clear). But from where I stand at this precise moment, it definitely feels like a light is being ...
- Here, Together: October 2020 September 28, 2020
It was a moment for remembering how very much has changed.
Our September fellowship retreat had wrapped up in the usual way: departing thoughts, the blowing out of our flame, the refrain from our closing song still lingering in some corner of my memory.
But it was only after the Zoom screens had blinked off — first ...
- Here, Together: September 2020 August 26, 2020
There’s been no shortage of things to listen to these last challenging months. Podcasts, news pieces and editorials, Facebook posts, radio updates, independent news broadcasts … Ever since mid-March, that moment when everything changed, you could say that news sources have made up a kind of frenetic, “all talk, all the time,” playlist to my ...
