Aunts and uncles could be called the “forgotten” kin because we tend to prioritize parents and grandparents when we think of family relationships. Patty Sotirin, an emerita professor of communication…

Human beings are essentially story-telling animals. Our stories are what make and keep us human. Stories are not, as we sometimes think, merely decorative entertainment, embroidered on the surface of…

Today’s message attempts to dance with both the active and allowing elements of belonging: the work of affirming and protecting an ecology of belonging and the non-work of remembering and…

The presenter will be Tom Grotenwohl, founder of Protect the Porkies, http://www.ProtectThePorkies.com. He and his organization are concerned about the Copperwood Mine project. Approximately 14 miles north of Wakefield, it…

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…