As we move into October, we begin a new monthly theme, Living the Questions. We’ll start with questions of belonging, and what it means to call FUSF our spiritual home. Fitting in asks us to change ourselves to be accepted. Belonging means being accepted as we are, questions and all.
We’re glad to welcome Rev. Beth Robbins, who served Arlington Street Church from 2015 to 2025, most recently as Executive Minister. Before seminary, she led national nonprofits, including Ms. magazine. She lives between the North Shore and Boston’s Back Bay. October’s theme is Living the Questions.
In his Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke urged, “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.” Unitarian Universalism has never asked us to sign on to a single set of answers. How might we take up the time-honored practice of holding a question, rather than rushing to solve it, as a spiritual practice of our own? October’s theme is Living the Questions.
Among our Unitarian Universalist ancestors were those called heretics, a word that comes from the Greek for “choice.” They insisted on choosing for themselves rather than accepting answers handed down by church and state. In unsettled times, we often long for certainty. But what if an unwritten future is a sign of freedom, not a threat to it? How might we hold the hard questions of our country and our world together, as a community? … Continue reading An Unwritten Future
