Pauli Murray was a lawyer, poet, activist, and priest whose ideas helped shape both the civil rights and women’s rights movements. Murray also carried a lifelong, largely private struggle with gender, seeking understanding and care in a world that had no language or welcome for who Murray was. Their story holds deep pain, and remarkable … Continue reading A Song in a Weary Throat

Most of us hold on to more than we need: the drawer we can’t close, the boxes in the garage, the things we keep “just in case.” Sometimes our stuff tells a deeper story. For many people, holding on is a way of feeling safe, a response to seasons of loss, scarcity, or hurt. There … Continue reading What We Carry: Healing for the Holidays of Light

Humans, regardless of beliefs, have honored death as a way to nurture our human condition. Many of us speak of the veil being thin this time of year. It is a way of describing how the year turns and we the living remember our beloved who died. Sometimes Unitarian Universalists forget that the root of … Continue reading All Souls: Thinning the Veil