Minister Musings

By Rev. Diana L. Smith Dear Ones, Do your eyes glaze over when you hear the word “theology”? While I can really geek out on theology and deeply love it, there are also times I’ve started losing focus when conversations about it become too abstract or esoteric. (And...

Dear Ones, What inspiration do you draw from as you seek to live out your Unitarian Universalist values and engage in a free and responsible search for truth and meaning? What language and ideas make sense to you and speak to your spirit as you think about your...

Dear Ones, It has been a rich, full month. The busyness of early and mid-December, with its holiday parties and gift finding and giving, its many pulls that stretch our minds and hearts thin, is coming to an end. We’ve passed the longest night of the year, taking from...

Dear Ones, As we move into December, into the darkness, we find ourselves in spaces of tension. There’s the excitement and hubbub of all the things that happen around the holidays, combined with commercial and consumerist messages that bombard us. There’s the tension...

How do we reclaim our narrative? What story do we want to tell about our lives? I’m here in St. Paul, MN deeply grateful to be at BLUU’s Harper-Jordan Memorial Symposium (https://www.blacklivesuu.com/about). Well, enjoying and being humbled and awed by it… Here I’m...

Years ago (so many years I don’t remember who or why) someone asked me a question I keep with me: To whom are you responsible, to who and what do you belong? I carry this question with me because it reminds me to reflect on where I am in the world and who and what I’m...