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

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.