by Laura K Secor Hello my UUCW Friends,  Here we are at the season of gratitude. Some of us adore this time of year, while others of us may feel more ambivalent, or even distinctly lacking in enthusiasm. Whichever camp you fall into, I am offering a meditation that is an opportunity to cultivate good … Continue reading Positivity Meditation

by Kirsty Johnson Erikson, Holiday Craft Fair Coordinator The annual UUCW Holiday Fair is just weeks away, can you believe it?!  This means that we need several things to help the day run smoothly.  First, we need food! People go WILD for soups, chili, sandwiches…and while it’s often people attending the fair who purchase food … Continue reading The UUCW Holiday Craft Fair Is Coming! Help Needed!

by Rev. Aaron Payson The Soul Matters Theme for November this year is “Nurturing Gratitude” which fits nicely with the season of Thanksgiving and the other winter holidays ahead which honor the harvest, and the human capacity to thrive midst circumstances and environments that are often inhospitable to human survival without the creative human response … Continue reading Nurturing Gratitude

by Laura K Secor Hello my Unitarian Friends,  Today I am bringing you a Gnostic-Zen mashup, courtesy of Kim Rosen and Jane Hirshfield.   You most likely know the poetry of Jane Hirshfield, which is spare to the point of lean and yet intricate, much like her Buddhist beliefs.  However, you may not know that she has … Continue reading The Thunder, Perfect Mind

by Robin Mitzcavitch, Director of Religious Exploration This story is not necessarily about me. Maybe it’s a fable. Maybe it’s about someone I know. Maybe it’s about all of us. As you read, see where you may find yourself within this story. Remember that time that you suddenly became cool? It felt pretty good didn’t … Continue reading Suddenly Cool

by Rev. Aaron Payson This month’s Soul Matters Theme is “Cultivating Compassion”.  The word “compassion” literally means to “suffer together”.  But what if the most important part of compassion isn’t really about suffering at all?  What if compassion were about recognizing and expanding our deepest connections to all those who are around us and even … Continue reading Cultivating Compassion

by Melissa McKeon, President, UUCW Board of Management If I had to choose one – just one – of Unitarianism’s principles, I’d choose the last. The “interconnected web of existence,” resonates even more than the others for me.  I love the metaphor: the web of a spider, the web of existence. I love that the … Continue reading The Web of Existence

by Laura K Secor “Life in the Megacity is drowning in the Noise, the incessant flood of stimuli of the postmodern age: data feeds, neural sensations, drugs, memories, ads, all of it.  New tech changes the rules of the game faster than anyone can process, or people no longer try.  They give in to the Noise.”  (:OtherScape) This … Continue reading Living Inside the Noise