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finding Jesus on the first floor
I first considered taking a unit of CPE a couple of years ago. It was 10% because I thought I might want to be a chaplain. It was 90% because I didn’t want to be a minister. CPE seemed like a perfect...
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yes, mothers, somebody needs you: to be YOU.
This past week I’ve seen this post again and again. It seems to strike a needed nerve with some of my facebook friends, and so they share, often with a personal testimonial. The sharers are some of...
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Dear prospective UU seminarians (helpful advice. freshly squeezed.)
So. Something’s calling your name. And you wonder if that something might be Spirit, and if the way to appease it might be seminary. If this describes you, your potential future classmates* have put...
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taking Communion, and other subversive acts
This weekend, I had a totally unscheduled Sunday morning. That’s become a rare thing when I’m at home, and one which—oddly—means a decision about where to worship. Lately, I tend to take these “free”...
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shut up and swim (the Gospel according to Luke)
I went to the ELCA church in my town this past Sunday, and walked inside in a spirit of relieved anticipation. I was expecting, I think, to have my “needs” met exactly . . . so it disturbed me to...
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of friendship, worship, and the bravery of storytelling
Very early Monday morning, I returned home, bleary and beat, from 2013 General Assembly in Louisville. I attended Ministry Days as well (thanks again, UUMA, for including aspirants this year), and so...
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Are you there, God? It’s me . . . the girl who never shuts up.
My minister tells a story about deciding, as a child, that she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up. In fact, if I remember right, her realization was that she needed to be one. So she wrote her...
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don’t talk to strangers (listen to them instead!)
Last month I took an intensive course in Unitarian Universalist Congregational Polity–and heard something from our instructor that frightened me: “Unitarian Universalism as we know it isn’t going to...
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pastoral care for humanists? : the Rev. Jill Jarvis responds
This guest post merits a guest reply; Rev. Jarvis, thanks for your words. Readers, anything to add? Peace, j Alicia, this is a distressing situation indeed – you’re far from your loved ones, unable...
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Dear Raising Faith: on pastoral care for humanists
This guest post, from “Alicia,” asks what Unitarian Universalism, and what our ministers, specifically, might have to offer in times of personal crisis. These are great questions, and I’m happy to put...
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warning: this post is about S-E-X
Not long ago, I was studying in a coffee shop in the late hours of the evening. It’s a beautiful place to read—high ceilings of hammered tin, warm woods, a banistered staircase to the loft-style art...
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of Lent, and liturgy, and things that sparkle
I believe in one God (and it doesn’t make my toes curl to continue with, “the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth . . . “). I am happily married to the guy I started dating when I was 18....
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“Recovering Christians”: a UU Minister Responds
Happy New Year, friends! We are starting 2013 by looking back (but for the purposes of moving forward!) at an earlier post: this one, in which I wondered how we might move past the “recovery” stage...
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the interdependent web(s in our garage)
The other day as I buckled Si into his carseat, he declared, “I like ‘pidahs!” This surprised me; of late, anything that evokes a mere suggestion of 8 legs or skittery movement–things that could...
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“recovering Christians”–and recovering Christianity
As I have shared, I am a Unitarian Universalist and a practicing Christian. Sometimes I talk about my experiences with this. Other times, I talk about my faith, generally, and it’s heard by my fellow...
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toward a hands-on sort of faith
My two-year-old son really, really loves Jesus. For what it’s worth, Si attended a year of Catholic preschool and was given all the loving indoctrination the experience can provide (aside: if you...
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