Dear Members and Friends, I will be attending Ministry Days and General Assembly events and programming (virtually) from June 16 through June 28. During Ministry Days for UU clergy, I will be serving on a Covenant Relations Team requiring 15 dedicated hours of service in addition to the other core programming I’ll be attending. Following Ministry ...

I first heard Kate and Justin Miner’s “Tomorrow” in the first days of UU wide collegial collaboration, in that mid March time when we were first trying to swim in this COVID shut down era.  I was grateful to Rev Teresa Soto for sharing the Persisters of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland singing this ...

For many normally this season is filled with summer blockbusters.  I love a good summer blockbuster.  A fantasy or sci-fi or good old Superhero tale helps me stretch my imagination – suspend my disbelief muscles – and dream.  Last week I attended the General Assembly of the UUA.  Lots of you came to Sunday morning worship ...

by nadine smet-weiss, spiritual director in these days of shutting down what longing is breaking open in you like seed seeking light urging you to be the space for some new form of life in the world