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Stairs, Elevators, and Empty Bowls of Ice Cream
I love a good Unitarian joke. My favorite is the one about how the last time “Jesus Christ” was heard in a Unitarian Universalist church was when the janitor fell down the stairs. For some reason...
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I Confiscated My Kid’s Bed
Yesterday was a Monday. The day began… well, actually, the day never really actually began, per se, because it really just kind of flowed into the day before. The funny kind of math that you never...
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Beyond the Rhetoric
It is hard to think that there might be anything left to share that hasn’t already been said following the events in Tucson last week. To call this an unthinkable act simply does not give this...
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Learning Love
I remember so clearly the first time my now three-year-old daughter told me that she loved me. The very image of my toddler expressing her love was enough to melt the heart of even the grumpiest...
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Being UU at Home
When I was growing up it was always safe to assume that the only Unitarian Universalist kids attending whatever school I was enrolled in at the time also lived in my house. In other words, UU kids...
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Redefining “Faith”
I have issues with Faith. Not the concept, the word. Let’s face it; there are real gaps in what we can know and prove, and sometimes we all have to make a leap or two so that we can actually make it...
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On Killing Evil
I cried on the day that Saddam Hussein was executed. And, yes, they were tears of sadness. Not because I thought that Hussein was a great, upstanding guy by any stretch of the imagination; he was...
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Calm, Cool and Collected
It finally happened. I have been working with my 3 and 5 year old kids on naming emotions and finding coping mechanisms for anger and frustration from the time that they were wee babes, and wouldn’t...
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Finding the Right Teachable Moment
Submitted By Erin Rockafellow Back in October the kids and I were sorting pumpkin seeds for roasting that we had brought home from a group carving. The kids and I were having fun being together with...
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A Story for All Ages
This is a story that begins, not once upon a time and far, far, away, but one that takes place in homes all over the world, and right here, right now. And how does it begin? With people gathered...
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