By Kim MasonJune 24, 2026“When it’s time to go onstage, know that you’re not ready butthis is not about being ready, it’s not even about being fierce, or fearless, it’s about being free.”—Dean Atta, The Black FlamingoThree religious professionals walk into a bar: a queer UU minister, a female priest
By Cat RamboJune 17, 2026“My use of their is socially motivated…: a deliberate response to the socially and politically significant banning of our genderless pronoun by language legislators enforcing the motion that the male sex is the only one that counts. I consistently break a rule I consider to
By AnonymousJune 10, 2026“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” —e. e. cummingsI didn’t know that my child had been struggling to tell me their truth about their gender and sexual orientation—a truth I’d always thought I would understand how to respond to.They tried to tell me,
By Pat Uribe-LichtyJune 3, 2026“Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying ‘no’ to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.”—Amy Goodman, investigative journalist, columnist, and authorIn the spring of 1975, I sat i
May 27, 2026“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” —Brené BrownIn my world, courage takes a different form: I spend my days walking the halls of a Veteran’s Hospital and trying to start conversations. That probably sounds pretty easy to most, except I spend my days walking i
By AnonymousMay 20, 2026“Return to the holy intimacy of being alive.”—John RoedelAt the end of a church meeting, a handful of people lingered in our conference room when someone relatively new to our congregation took a deep breath and a big risk—because he didn’t know many of the people present. He
By Antoinette HollamonMay 13, 2026“Hold me accountable so I may bring honor to you, amplify love and compassion to those around me, and make the way easier for those yet to come.”–Rev. Tandi Rogers, in “I Call Upon You”“When will you start your ministry?” they always ask with excitement. This is usu
By Joy BerryMay 6, 2026My heart is moved by all I cannot save: / so much has been destroyedI have to cast my lot with those / who age after age, perversely,with no extraordinary power, / reconstitute the world.—Adrienne Rich, from Dream of a Common Language (1978) and #463, Singing the Living Tradit
By Melissa JeterApril 29, 2026“From the body’s viewpoint, safety and danger are neither situational nor based on cognitive feelings. Rather, they are physical, visceral sensations. The body either has a sense of safety or it doesn’t.”—Resmaa Menakem, in My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and
By Karen G. JohnstonMarch 18, 2026“This is the world I want to live in. The shared world….This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, “Gate A4” from HoneybeeI have heard that the Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzburg has a spiritual practice when she flies. Waiting to boar
