This worship service is an experiential exploration of ways to generate hope through imagination and creativity.
Bio: Pip Paris (he/him/his) is a trans man living in Chicago, with his 17 year old nonbinary kid, Wren, and their two cats, Willow and Angel.
Pip has been … read more.
The board of the peace magazine The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists changes the hands of its famous “Doomsday Clock” only for existential threats. As an editor of the magazine, I watched the hands tick unimaginibly from fourteen to seven minutes to midnight. Today we … read more.
It’s easy to feel like we’re supposed to handle everything on our own these days. But real well-being isn’t a solo sport. This Sunday, we’ll look at why being part of a community matters so much for our health and happiness. What happens when we … read more.
Father’s Day isn’t just a day to take our Dads out to brunch and give them a new tie or power tool, but an opportunity to give them the compassion, which in turns lets us see their humanity. It is from this place that we … read more.
In challenging times that call us to live out our religious values, join Rev. Allison Farnum and Keith Talley of the Unitarian Universalist Prison Ministry of Illinois as we explore how we “get free” from the lens of Unitarian Universalist prisoner solidarity work.
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“Simplify, simplify,” said Henry David Thoreau in Walden. “Our life is frittered away in detail, simplify, simplify.” What would church look like if we aligned our programs to a clear vision, and then focused everything on accomplishing our mission? I suspect it would look … read more.
In her book The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee asks a simple question about the American landscape that has haunted me for some time: “Why can’t we have nice things?” From public parks to community resources, she explores how the “zero-sum” myth, the idea that … read more.
I put on an Air Force uniform when I was 18 years old to work as an airplane mechanic, took it off and put it on again to play trombone with the Air National Guard, and took it off and put it on yet again … read more.
As composer Alex Berko explains, Sacred Space “connects the old with the new, the sacred with the secular, and the individual with their community.” Using elements from Jewish liturgy combined with “the writings of several American environmentalists and poets who have spoken about their relationship … read more.
Artists have discovered a truth: That the intersection between imagination, art, and religion is being attentive to the world. In that space, boundaries vanish and the secular becomes sacred, the ordinary becomes sublime. Poet Mary Oliver writes, “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing … read more.
