Katie Byron is a recent graduate of Boston University School of Theology, candidate for Unitarian Universalist ministry, and aspiring hospital chaplain. They are also a social worker and currently work and live in Boston as a therapist, partnering with people figuring out how to live and love when it feels like the world is ending. … Continue reading “We Give our Dead to the Orchards”
One of our greatest gifts is free will. We are given the gift of being able to co-create our lives and our world. There is a lot that is out of our control AND we get to decide how to use our power when we create our lives and our communities. Join us for a … Continue reading Powerful Partners
We tend to think about creativity as something you do or do not have. The truth is that we all have it and we are called to use it. Creativity is a muscle that strengthens through use. Join us as we explore what gets in the way of our big creative energy and how to … Continue reading “Big Creative Energy”
Marchaé (they/she) is a storyteller, spiritual director, and facilitator engaging hearts and minds at the intersections of spirituality and collective liberation. They are proud to be Black, queer, nonbinary, anxious, and polyamorous. She is the Director of Programs at Still Harbor and is in leadership at Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism. Here’s the video of … Continue reading “Practice Does Not Make Perfect”
In our work resisting empire and injustice, it is crucial that we go slow, stay steady and persistent and stick together with our beloveds. Our outrage and sense of urgency can be powerful and compelling, and it can get in the way of the real work that needs to be done. As we wind down … Continue reading “Slow. Steady. Together.”
Trust is a gentle thing it is hard to build and takes nurturing to keep. However, there are ways we offer our trust every day to strangers without thinking about it. To the train conductor, other cars on the road, the strangers we walk beside, and so many more. There are also ways we take … Continue reading “Learning to Trust”
Our people and our congregation are becoming ever more fired up to change the world. To create the beloved community. It will require an organized and heart centered resistance to do so. We are building a space where people can ground their justice work spiritually. Where people can receive the sustenance they need to keep … Continue reading “The Resistance Must Be Fully Resourced”
Every moment is a chance to start fresh. To be reborn. And it is not that easy. It is quite painful in fact to shed your skin and to tenderly deliver yourself into a new form. We have to die a million deaths in order to birth ourselves anew. This Easter, let us celebrate the … Continue reading “The First Green Blade”
This year’s Transgender Day of Visibility comes in the wake of many states launching devastating and scary attacks on the rights of transgender folks. Our siblings are scared and angry and weary. So in the midst of our celebration of the existence of trans and gender expansive folks, and the gifts that they are to … Continue reading “Siblings”
Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen is a Midwesterner at heart, lives in Massachusetts and is learning all the time about liberation, solidarity, courage, and cowardice. She is a Unitarian Universalist minister and a Migrant Justice Organizer with Community Justice Exchange and previously did faith-based justice work and youth organizing. So often it’s not clear what healing is … Continue reading “Healing is Banana Pancakes”
