Begin Again

In 2020, you began again with a new minister. In 2020, you began again when The Great Pause kept us apart in person, and we met through our computers and in the outdoors. In 2022, you began again to meet in person at Northland College. In 2023, you began again to...

Where We’ve Been – Where We Are Going

Where We’ve Been—-Where we are Going This year, in small groups, publications, and Sunday services, we’ve engaged with the language that the larger Unitarian Universalist Association is proposing as we reassess beliefs and how they are communicated in our living...

Mid-Winter Greetings

February 2nd is one of my favorite holidays. Some call it Imbolc, others Groundhog Day. Some celebrate with the Feast of St. Brigid, Ireland’s patroness saint who promises the gifts of spring: new life, abundance, protection. Going to wells is one of the practices of...

Dear Ones…

Dear Ones, I actually bristle at that salutation—dear ones. But I can’t help myself; it is the only way I can begin this column. You see, I’m still reeling from a recent experience. After the holiday service, I had to pull over on a gravel road on the way home because...

December is for Reflective Practice

December is for Reflective Practice While there was no official tally, when I was in seminary, I believe the words “energy” and “mystery” were used most often to describe the notion of the holy. It did not matter if the student believed in God or what faith they...