The Spring Equinox (remember that, back in March?) is significant because it is the time when night and day are of equal length, and a time to celebrate balance in all things. Our Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Germanic ancestors would celebrate the arrival of Spring’s arrival … read more.

In recent weeks, the highest grossing movie without question will have been Captain Marvel. It is the story of an ace fighter pilot who encounters an alien and thereby is introduced to a wider universe than she could have imagined before. Carol Danvers’ story asks … read more.

This dialogical sermon was first offered in 2002 at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, California by the Rev. Dr. Lee Barker, now President of Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. Inspired by the biography of Jane Addams by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Rev. Barker … read more.

This year, a record number of women are running for the presidency of the United States. Today’s sermon will focus on this phenomenon in American politics, and what has brought us to this moment when women are determined to lead the country.

One of the most beloved characters of the DC comics universe is Wonder Woman, an Amazon who comes to the “world of men” as both savior and hero. In 2017, the movie Wonder Woman threw wide open the door to women as the leading heroic … read more.

One of the moral quandaries of the Vietnam War era concerned the Buddhist monks who immolated themselves in protest of the war. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh corresponded with each other on this issue, providing a … read more.

Today’s service will explore the history of African Americans in the Unitarian Universalist movement, from 1860 to the present.

One of the most important historians and interpreters of African American lives is Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University and host of the beloved PBS series … read more.

All too often, our vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. is of a religious statesman who guided a nation toward racial justice. But to see him in too antiseptic a way is to not recognize the full complexities of King, nor his genius.

One of the most important architects of the Universalist movement in America was Hosea Ballou. Today, we will explore his history and legacy, and finally answer the question: Is Todd Ballou, our organist and director of music, related to Hosea?