We know as a people committed to justice that America is guilty on all counts of white supremacy. This is why we fight for black lives. There are too many times and too many days when that fight feels like a losing battle. We can say the names George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daunte Wright, Adam...
Author: Rev. Anya Sammler-Michael (Rev. Anya Sammler-Michael)
Losing Everything
Life may feel in times like it is acquisition - acquisition of moments, ideas, things... but life does not end with acquisition. It ends with an eventual and entire letting go. Here is how we reconcile ourselves to this eventual becoming.
To Witness and To Testify
The promise I would like to make and remake to the world is that I will witness and I will testify, that I will not cower before judgment - others or my own. This gets me into trouble. Sometimes it is 'good trouble.'
What a Piece of Work Are We
The Unitarian Universalist hymn “Oh, What a Piece of Work Are We” celebrates the capacity of humanity. It also opens the door to a contemporary chuckle… what a piece of work, indeed! Both responses are revelatory.
Love and Power
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
Carriers of the Light
Our annual holiday pageant, celebrating many December rituals, takes a different shape during the pandemic.