Dear Ones: My ministry at Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation at White Plains is drawing to a close. I have sadness about depart...

Dear Ones: Here's a parable about congregational life from the great Universalist minister, Rev. Clinton Lee Scott: "Now it came ...

Dear Ones: What I want to share with you today are these words of Jaya Rudgard: "We have a very strong tendency to view joy as someth...

Dear Ones: "Doomscrolling"? I recently learned this term. The National Institutes of Health's website says "doomscrolli...

Dear Ones: "Know thyself." This Ancient Greek aphorism is supposedly the first of three inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Del...

Dear Ones: Slow down. That's really the best -- maybe even the only -- spiritual lesson to learn. Take things slow. Sure, smell some f...

Dear Ones: Laura Bridgman writes: "When we’re trying to change ourselves or change the other, we’re essentially rejecting what is ari...

Dear Ones: Things to know about Ramadan. Ramadan is the name for the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar -- and the whole month is a...

Dear Ones: The world has certainly changed in the last 10 years. A former president has been indicted. That happened this week. The thin...

Dear Ones: Mary Oliver's oft-quoted words remind us: "To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what ...

Dear Ones: Last week, I wrote about dropping the distinction between "need" and "want" -- and replacing that distincti...

Dear Ones: NEED or WANT ? How do you distinguish between "need" and "want"? I say: don't. I know it's te...

Dear Ones: In the end, everything is everything else. Filip Holm explained it this way: "Try to think of that flower without the soi...

Dear Ones: Our "Science and Spirituality" group read Ed Yong's book, I Contain Multitudes last fall. Some amazing things we...

Dear Ones: This Sunday we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the album Free to Be...You and Me by Marlo Thomas and Friends. I was...