These early days of 2026 are here. How are you today? How were your holidays/HOLYDays over the last many weeks? I start of this month’s Curiosities and Musings in this way, as I believe that in order to continue to build upon our spiritual, religious muscles for the times we find ourselves in with this month’s Soul Matters theme of “Practicing Resistance”, it may be useful to do “personal check-ins” with ourselves, with our family, family of choice and those we are building more of the Beloved Community with as often and as sustainably as possible.
What has it meant to and for you to “resist” now or across your lifetime? From the times in our lives when the choices before us have been simple, such as choosing to have your favorite dessert, an extra helping or two, or not. To more deeply personal choices when you feel the identities you work to embody are being excluded from important decisions that will or do impact your life, or those you love. How does or might building upon your practices of resistance be of use, especially for the geo-political horrors of the current times we are in.
As important, as Unitarian Universalists, or those seeking to be in “community” with us, how might we be willing to share our current, or hoped for practices of resistance as a way to live more
sustainably in our personal lives, as a religious community and throughout our lives here in Milwaukee and beyond? What within our current values of justice, equity, transformation, pluralism, interdependence and generosity: all centered in love, may be useful in this ever-evolving, sacred endeavor?
Let’s discuss…
Welcome to 2026!
Sincerely and in deeper Unitarian Universalist faith,
Rev. Chris Long
Acting Assistant Minister