05/14/23 by Joshua Pawelek I call this sermon “Spiraling.” Spirals are common in nature—the DNA double helix, the fiddlehead fern, the...

04/30/23 “How precious it is to be together in spiritual community. How precious it is to learn what is on each other’s hearts and minds;...

04/16/23 Rev. Josh Pawelek Our ministry theme for April is resistance. I recognized early on in the planning for this morning’s service...

03/26/23 Rev. Josh Pawelek I want to say a few words about something most children do exceedingly well: asking for help. It makes sense....

03/19/23 Rev. Josh Pawelek Om Namah Shivaya, shivaya namah om. Salutations benevolent one. Or salutations Lord Shiva. Ancient words....

02/19/23 I am slightly embarrassed. My intention this morning was—and still is—to continue reflecting on the proposed changes to Article...

02/05/23 Calling The Quarters excerpts from “Quarterdance” by Mary Bopp and Josh Pawelek Spirit of the East, we invite your presence....

01/22/23 by Joshua Pawelek Note: Rev. Josh offered this sermon in response to UUA Article 2 Commission’s rough draft report released in...

01/08/23 Our ministry theme for this first month of 2023 is Finding Our Center. It has always been abundantly clear to me that the...

08/29/21 by Joshua Pawelek My father spoke to trees, specifically the oaks in his backyard. And he was fairly certain they spoke to him....

09/15/19 by Joshua Pawelek “If only for once it were still”—words from the late 19th-early 20th-century Bohemian-Austrian poet, Rainer...

06/03/19 by UUSEadmin On May 26, 2019, the service was titled “Living Your Faith: Finding and Walking Your Path as a Unitarian...

04/13/15 Because I’m in the middle of teaching our Building Your Own Theology class and inviting the participants to look deeply into...

06/02/13 by UUSEadmin Alex Kapitan, LGBTQ and Multicultural Programs Administrator, Unitarian Universalist Association. Hello! And...

04/01/12 The Rev. Josh Pawelek Video here In his new book, A Universe From Nothing,[1] cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss attempts to...

11/06/11 “Please call me by my true names, / so I can wake up, / and so the door of my heart can be left open, / the door of...