Category: Personal & Spiritual Development
The Winter Holidays and “Awe-robics”
The winter holidays are a mixed bag: stressful, sad, lonely, yet also magical with moments of love and forgiveness that… Read More >
The Dark Can Be Luminous, and It Can Be Lonely
When the earth turns away from the sun and the land grows colder and darker, people huddle around fires and… Read More >
Words on the Wind – Being in the Here and Now
Being in the Here and Now is one of meditation’s techniques for calming the mind, centering it in the present… Read More >
Coming this Fall – Theme Circles!
Many of you participated in Chalice Circles over the last 20-plus years. However, with participation in decline, we have decided… Read More >
Finally, Summer!
Finally, summer! Summer is such an easy time to bask in the beauty of the natural world, a season when… Read More >
Words on the Wind – Blessings
In Unitarian Universalism, we understand each person is born an original blessing. At the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, when… Read More >
Stewardship Moment: Time, Talent, and Treasure
By Tony Panciera, Stewardship Council Chair December always brings familiar memories – snow, holidays, family, food, and gifts to name… Read More >
Sara’s Good Tidings: the Season of Hope
By the Rev. Sara Goodman In this season of hope and expectation, we wait for the light to return, for… Read More >
Membership Musings: Act in Hopeful Ways
By Lynne Jacoby, Membership Development Coordinator “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And… Read More >
Holiday Giving Tree & Winter Clothing Drive Begin Nov. 26
Holiday Giving Tree: This holiday season the Children’s Religious Education program leaders will once again be teaming up with a… Read More >
Blessings before a Meal – Ideas for UUs and Others
Grace for Unitarian Universalists. By Beryl Aschenberg, Director of Religious Education. As Thanksgiving approaches, UU families often consider blessings that… Read More >
When I Think of Abundance . . .
(Post by Lynne Jacoby, Membership Development Coordinator.) When I think of abundance I think of humbleness, generosity, joy, and… Read More >
REflections for November – Beryl Aschenberg
REflections. By Beryl Aschenberg, Director of Religious Education. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is… Read More >
Words on the Wind: Abundance
By the Rev. Jennifer Nordstrom. In our Worship Associate conversation about abundance, our November theme, Robert Szymanski asked the provocative… Read More >
RE-Flections
By Beryl Aschenberg, Director of Religious Education I remember my first visit to a Unitarian Universalist church. Just taking the… Read More >
Membership Musings: Let Them Be Awkward!
By Lynne Jacoby, Membership Development Coordinator I didn’t have much to say about courage until I remembered an essay by… Read More >