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July 2015

July 28, 2015

Discovering UUA Principles in Alaska

Being in Alaska is disorienting, living with 22 hours of sunlight brings one to appreciate...

July 27, 2015

Community vs. Spirituality: Why Does it Feel Like a Battle?

Most religious organizations need both dedicated religious people as well as those who like to...

July 24, 2015

Retreats, Consensus, and Death and Dying

We used to say that the ‘personal’ is ‘political.’ From my perspective today, the ‘magickal’...

July 24, 2015

The Give and Take of Lammas

In the Stone Circle, Lammas was not just the First Harvest, but also the celebration...

July 22, 2015

Forest Meditation

I stop and think about how someday my molecules and atoms will be part of...

July 21, 2015

Solar or Earth-centered Spirituality?

Kalen Cap writes, "To me, earth-centered spirituality is anchored in a love of life on...

July 20, 2015

What Have You Done for Me Lately?

As we deepen our skills and resources, broaden our relationships, and act for justice, we...

July 17, 2015

The UUA's Future Lies with CUUPS

Without CUUPS and other groups that attract younger followers UUA congregations will shrink while maintaining...

July 16, 2015

Gaia Community's Annual Patron

Every year, we choose, or are called to serve and work with, a different god...

July 15, 2015

Years, Seasons, Moons, and Weeks: The Holiness of Time

Time is holy, and this is the time we have been given, the time we...

July 08, 2015

In Support of our own: understanding Unitarian Universalist Idealization

The UUA is currently grappling with changes in its ministerial formation process. Today's guest article...

July 06, 2015

Summer Solstice – Season of Passion and Social Justice

This is the season of fire, both in its transformative and destructive forms. Sekhmet, the...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

About General Assembly and CUUPS

Then it was my turn to stand up from my borrowed drum and bring our...

June 25, 2015

Gatherings and Information Galore!

Summer is here and so begins the season of various gatherings in many faith traditions...

June 22, 2015

Children and Religious Education

Finding the balance between not talking about religion and talking about it as the only...

June 19, 2015

The Stunning Encyclical Letter of Pope Francis

When an ancient institution culpable in the worldwide spread of Patriarchy, and environmental and social...

June 17, 2015

Living in the LIght, Seeing the Dark

The Summer Solstice and its waning away suggests a certain wisdom that we don’t usually...

June 17, 2015

Firefly Solstice

For four days a year, I lose myself in a teeming crowd of people, soaking...

June 14, 2015

Right Relationship and Drawing the Circle Wide

I am calling on UU Pagans who live with privilege in this dimension to apologize,...

June 12, 2015

CUUPS and a Theology of Service

For me personally, service is a vote for compassion, justice and equality for the entire...

June 10, 2015

Spiritual Hygiene

When thinking about both ancient and modern models of spiritual direction within Neo-Pagan or earth-centered...

June 10, 2015

The Hanged Man: Are You Willing to Suffer to Learn?

The Hanged One calls us to examine our assumptions, our certainties about the world we...

June 01, 2015

Natural Disasters and A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment

By signing this statement we are committing ourselves to a vision. Spiritually, visualization is key...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

The Blessings of Darkness

Darkness is not just the absence of Light; darkness is its own thing. Sometimes it’s...

May 27, 2015

CUUPS Mission and Vision Statement

The CUUPS Revisioning process is almost complete. Our new Mission and Vision Statement is open...

May 25, 2015

The Polytheist in the Sunday Service

It is intended to be inclusive language, and I very much appreciate that intention, but...

May 22, 2015

The Meditating Pagan

When I learned that I was a pagan, I paused to consider how I was...

May 21, 2015

The UU Church and the Secret Pagans

Secretly in my heart I consider the entire congregation I have joined as “Secret Pagans”...

May 20, 2015

A Magical Reading of UU Initiation: One Woman’s Ordination

A look at my experience of ordination--that most contested of UU initiations--through the eyes of...

May 18, 2015

Board Work as Sacred Work

This is sacred work. We are in service to something greater than ourselves. We are...

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