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October 2023

October 31, 2023

My Pagan path – a look back into when I started my journey

The Rev. Anya Sammler-Michael, senior co-minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, New Jersey...

May 2021

May 18, 2021

My story – discovering UU, starting a CUUPs chapter & leadership

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, New Jersey, to which I belong to, follows the...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Wheel of the Year: Beltane (May Day)

How will you celebrate this time of year? What are you planting for the coming...

April 17, 2021

CUUPS at the Virtual UUA General Assembly 2021

Summer Solstice Celebrations and Voices of the Earth Panel with Starhawk, Selena Fox, and Andras...

February 2021

February 11, 2021

The Spirituality of Play: Divine Silliness in Hard Times

Laughter and play are some of the most healing activities we can engage in.  And...

February 05, 2021

A Simple “Seeker Class”

Each seeker’s journey will unfold and grow in its own way.  Maybe they have grown...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Thinking About Lollipops

You just never know when what you do and how you carry yourself will make...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

The Song of My Heart is the Sacred Earth

Let us be able to say, "The song of my heart is for Sacred Earth"...

November 01, 2019

How Many Religions Can You Speak?

[W]alls often take on a life of their own. They become powerful entities in themselves...

July 2018

July 27, 2018

The Value of Initiatory Challenge

I’m enormously proud of the people whose initiations I have witnessed – both the carefully...

July 26, 2018

UU or Pagan: Pick One?

It's been a month of blog posts about how UU and Pagan can and do...

June 2018

June 15, 2018

Teaching Paganism

The act of teaching something allows us to see what we really do know, and...

April 2018

April 06, 2018

Proclamations and Compromises

Erica Baron gives us with a retelling of the final part of the Persephone myth...

April 01, 2018

Ostara: The Vernal Equinox

If we practiced this embrace of both/and, perhaps things that seem to be irreconcilable could...

March 2018

March 14, 2018

Finding The Balance

I know that the earth teaches us of a cosmology that is about cycles. One...

March 05, 2018

Visiting The Temple of Sekmet Near Las Vegas

Every year we travel around the South Western United States. I preach each Sunday at...

March 03, 2018

A UU Pagan At An Interfaith Prayer Breakfast

As a Unitarian Universalist, I know that the theism part cannot be assumed.  Many Unitarian...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

A Working In Florida

The work does not end once we say “And, as I will it, so mote...

February 02, 2018

Inspiration and Expression

I serve the herald of the gods, and if I’m holding my breath, I can’t...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Brigid's Mantle

And so on the eve of Imbolc, on the 50th anniversary of the birth of...

January 01, 2018

Toll for the Old Year, Ring in the New

We are the heart and lungs, we are the eyeballs, throat, ears and even the...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Highlighting Five Recent Videos

YouTube is home to a growing number of Unitarian Universalist Pagan and Earth-Centered videos. Here...

December 29, 2017

Manifesting the New Year

I’m asking, directly, each of you take some time alone to envision clearly the new...

December 18, 2017

Winter Solstice Gifts: Pentacles and Galaxies

An earth-honoring spiritual orientation can help to bring joy where there is little hope.

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Piercing the Veil of Grief and Loss

There is no right way to grieve; there is no right way to heal from...

October 28, 2017

Samhain

Water your grief with your tears, and wait for the fire to slow and shrink....

October 06, 2017

Speaking Only Truth

In the branch of witchcraft in which I practice, we believe ... that what we...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

Lighting the Chalice and Turning the Wheel

I found the ceremony of putting a single flame into a bowl to mark the...

September 13, 2017

Finding Hope

Where are you finding hope today?

September 01, 2017

Meditation to the Oak King and Holly King

As we approach the Equinox, the point of balance, it might be a good time...

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