LOVE THE QUESTIONS: Poet Rilke advised us to love the questions and in time to live into the answers. So as I wonder about integrating the truths of both cognitive science and mystical spirituality, I suppose that evolution of consciousness is in play. We know on the scale of the universe that human consciousness has […]

Submitted by Judy Sullivan, USH Social Justice Chair Americans of Conscience Checklist, Week of January 13, 2019 By Jen Hofmann 113 weeks down, 94 weeks to the presidential election. The AoC Checklist features clear, well-researched actions for Americans who value democracy, equality, voting, and decency. We practice gratitude, self-care, and celebration to stay engaged. I value equality. Support […]

Submitted by Judy Sullivan, USH Social Justice Chair Americans of Conscience Checklist, Week of January 6, 2019 By Jen Hofmann 112 weeks down, 95 weeks to the presidential election. The AoC Checklist features clear, well-researched actions for Americans who value democracy, equality, voting, and decency. We practice gratitude, self-care, and celebration to stay engaged.   The seeds of […]

Thinking ahead: The very fact that we are here on Earth at all and that we think about it is a miracle to me. When I consider the 13.7 billion year journey of the universe and the odds again my being here at all, I am blown away by not only the fact that I […]

-Submitted by Judy Sullivan, USH Social Justice Chair Americans of Conscience Checklist, Week of December 16, 2018 By Jen Hofmann 109 weeks down, 98 weeks to the presidential election. The AoC Checklist features clear, well-researched actions for Americans who value democracy, equality, voting, and decency. We practice gratitude, self-care, and celebration to stay engaged. This week: Our Checklist actions focus on […]

Whether you are experiencing joy or pain, share your truth with others and thus your inner light. In this way we “Bring back the Light!” Looking ahead to 2019: a dozen UU congregations are now using Quest, Faith Forward and UU Wellsprings, all adult spiritual development programs, created by Madison (WI), Dallas and Rochester UUs. […]

As the days grow dark, I believe we humans have a deep need to respond with warmth and light and hope and have for likely more than 10,000 years especially in northern climates. This is so strong a need that Jesus’ birth was placed on the winter solstice in the old Roman calendar which was […]

-Submitted by Judy Sullivan, USH Social Justice Chair Americans of Conscience Checklist, Week of December 9, 2018 By Jen Hofmann 108 weeks down, 99 weeks to the presidential election. The AoC Checklist features clear, well-researched actions for Americans who value democracy, equality, voting, and decency. We practice gratitude, self-care, and celebration to stay engaged. I value democracy. With […]

We are precious and rare, beyond compare, as intelligent beings in this enormous universe. We, searching for meaning for our own lives, create the universe’s meaning as we wonder, see beauty in it, develop the means to explore it, and understand its ways. In this season of rejoicing in the return of the light, remember […]

Submitted by Judy Sullivan, USH Social Justice Chair Americans of Conscience: Spread the Light 2018, Week of December 2, 2018 107 weeks down, 100 weeks to the presidential election.   Democracy works when you and I do. If you’re like me, sometimes reading the news feels like one gut punch after another. There comes a point when you just […]