Along with many other UU congregations, we traditionally celebrate our coming together in the fall by pouring a bit of water that people have collected over the summer into a…

This talk is about different ways of being in the world as a social activist. I’m celebrating my 50th anniversary of life with diabetes this month. Strangely, these two sentences…

Undue Medical Debt is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit effort to raise funds to erase all medical debt – more than $2 million – currently in collections in the First Congressional…

What if taking good care of ourselves and one another in everyday situations is actually a sacred act that gradually strengthens our inner resilience and outer ability to be of…

Success is defined in many ways. One of my favorite definitions is from Deepak Chopra: “The continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.” Please join me…

This Forum will provide information and an opportunity to ask questions about the upcoming August 5 millage election to support construction of a new jail and county buildings. Houghton County…

As we move from celebrations of Juneteenth to Independence Day, I’d like to consider the freedom that is born from acknowledging and appreciating interdependence.

With so many other crises in the political scene, we are not hearing as much about the existential crisis we face with the earth’s rapidly changing climate. In this service,…

My teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, says that “freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it for ourselves.”  I would like to share some of Thich…