This past Tuesday our Policy Board held its regular monthly meeting. As we began, Peggy Webbe, our president, invited us into a guided...

For decades we’ve been singing “Dona Nobis Pacem” at the end of this annual midwinter holiday music service. I suspect we will continue...

First Reflection Finding a Balance: Dark and Light                         At our Thanksgiving Sunday service two weeks ago, Emmy...

After last Sunday’s sermon, a far-greater-than-usual number of you called or wrote or texted to thank me for my words and to say you felt...

I am going to speak about Tuesday’s election, but perhaps less about the election and more about what the United States of America means...

“Well I don’t know where it all begins / And I don’t know where it all will end / We’re better off for all that we let in.” [1]  Lyrics...

As you know, those of us present in the meeting house are going to conduct a fire drill as this service is ending. Zoomers: we tried very...

I shared with you earlier Jesus’ parable of the Messianic Banquet, also known as the Great Banquet, the Wedding Banquet, or the Great...

Spinoza talk by MFB delivered at UUSE Sunday 7/28/24. Title  “Spinoza’s God:  Wisdom from the 1600’s” I was struck dumb in the year 2023...

Last month, Saturday, June 22nd, 2025 (or 80.2% of) delegates to the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, meeting online,...

Friends: this piece Dorothy has just played, “Deep River,” from the late 19th-/early 20th-century British composer Samuel...

i can see the galaxies / take me with you honestly / leave behind the color fleet / be my feet, be my feet—lyrics from Luke Harper’s...

A Meditation on Grace (Rev. Josh Pawelek) Where are my keys? I gotta go. I gotta go. Have you seen my keys? Did you look on the key hook...

First Part: Interdependence as a Fact of Life Our ministry theme for April is interdependence. This term has been capturing the spiritual...

Thank you choir! It's o good to have you singing on this Easter morning. “Shine on me!” This is a beautiful, bluesy, uplifting piece from...

In the Christian liturgical year, today is Palm Sunday, the celebration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem as a humble king, five days before...

Earlier I shared words from the late Rev. Elizabeth Tarbox, one of my favorite Unitarian Universalist spiritual writers. She says, “Here...

“Love is the spirit of this church, and service its law. This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in...

During my sabbatical I twice had the opportunity to visit Hanover, PA, my mother’s birthplace, the town where she grew up—about 40 minutes s

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