Chicago
I wound up with a 7 hour layover in Chicago. The nice thing about train travel is that when you have a layover, you can leave the terminal. And when you have a layover in Chicago, you’re downtown, rig
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January Theme: Change & (R)evolutions
January is often a time when we push the reset button. Reflecting on our lives, we can make amends, make changes, and begin again in love. Change is not always easy and institutional change can be eve
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Religious Education News
Children in Kindergarten through 6 th grade will start in the Great Hall for the first part of the service. Afterwards, these children will meet in the K-3 rd grade classroom next to the dining room f
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Covenant Groups Begin Soon!
Registration is now open for the winter/spring 2023 Covenant Groups! Each small group will include a trained facilitator, be comprised of between 5-9 people, and will meet six times between February a
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Side With Love’s Spiritual Nourishment for the Long Haul
Side With Love is thrilled to announce 30 Days of Love 2023! Our annual month of spiritual nourishment, political grounding, and shared practices of faith and justice, 30 Days of Love will go from Mar
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, the February read for BIPOC Book Discussion Group
Read on into February with the classic Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Huston. We will gather by zoom on Monday, February 20, for a book discussion. We welcome all newcomers to the book rea
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The complex organization of the Pre-Classic Maya
New research using LiDAR technology suggests Mayan society on the Yucatan peninsula may have been more complex than previously thought. Continue reading The complex organization of the Pre-Classic May
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Skinner House Books Enters Distribution Agreement with Ingram Content Group: Publishing Imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association Begins New Distribution Relationship with Consortium® Book Sales & Distribution, an Ingram Content Group Bra...
Publishing Imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association Begins New Distribution Relationship with Consortium® Book Sales & Distribution, an Ingram Content Group Brand, in Spring 2023 Continue rea
What do we do when our conscience goes to jail?: UUs showing up for UUs who show up
For generations, UUs have been jailed for our conscience in resisting systems of oppression. As our tradition becomes more justice oriented, rates of UU arrests are on the rise. How does our conscienc
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“How Rights Went Wrong”: On the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
Sunday was the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade. On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the Constitution protects the right to choose to have an abortion. As Jamal Greene notes
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Out of Whack
What puts me out of whack? Well, actually a lot of things. I’m going to tell you about the one thing that is the hardest to deal with and that’s my health. It is with me wherever I go. It’s … Continue
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The Man Whose Name was Concealed in Oscar Wilde’s Trial: An Interview with Author Laura Lee
I hope you will enjoy this first interview on the topic of my new book Wilde Nights & Robber Barons. In it, I talk about the discovery of letters from Lord Alfred Douglas to his “Darling Pretty” Mauri
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House finches return
Our friend Finchley, as my wife calls our friendly finch, is back! At least, I think it’s him. I’m not much of a birder, but I heard a familiar chirping around the house that made me say to Joy just t
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Roped In: Oscar Wilde’s Influence in Art and Crime
In this clip Matt Baume delves into the history of the 1948 Hitchcock film “Rope,” which was based on the real-life Leopold and Loeb muirders. What particularly caught my interest was the description
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From the UUA President: We Mourn with the People of Monterey Park, CA
Susan Frederick-Gray UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray respond to news of yet another tragic shooting. Unitarian Universalists are ready to work with elected and community officials to support r
New benches at ESSA
We completed two new woodshop benches in the machine room at ESSA with the addition of butcher block tops and bottom shelves made from the tops of old benches. The old benches were one's I'd built out
Forced Birthing
As we recognize the 50th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, which was overturned this summer, All Souls member Barbara Bannon reminds us of the importance of continuing to fight fo
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Zen at the Margins: Reflecting on Monastic, Priestly, Secular, Jewish, & Christian Zens
Zen at the MarginsMonastic, Priestly, Secular, Jewish, and Christian Zens James Ishmael Ford A non-believer opened his heart to the Buddha, saying, “I am not asking about words, I am not asking ab
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Our Covenant
A sermon considering the proposed covenant of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston. The post Our Covenant appeared first on Colin Bossen.
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