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CB Beal’s Response to the UU World Wildly Missing the Mark

If you’d like to go straight to CB Beal’s response to the UU World’s harmful article about a cisgender woman’s interactions with trans and non-binary people, click here. Today, I will lift up the voice of CB Beal, a non-binary member of the Unitarian Universalist educator and consultant focusing on consent and sexuality ed, and inclusion and […]

Fatness and Miraculous Beauty: 1

In all the tumult of life, the daily and hourly news cycle, the seemingly unending slings and arrows of life on Earth, we are reminded by wise ones all over the world that we are also here now, together, and are given the opportunity to fall in love with one another. So as Mary Oliver […]

Black Lives Matter: Choose Justice

  Lovely words, from Emily Dickinson, words I do not believe right now, today, here, in these United States: “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all –   And sweetest – in the Gale – is […]

The Priestess-Minister: Where Does the River Flow?

I became a priestess. I became a minister. I never relinquished one for the other. And now I’m integrating the wealth of understanding I’ve gained from my preparation and experience of each of these roles into one whole, one identity. To Grow Is Both to Lose and to Gain Part of that integration has involved […]

The Emergence of a Minister: Part 2

So, in case you’re not glued to my every word, I’ll remind you that it was All Souls Unitarian in Washington, DC that really sucked me into Unitarian Universalism, and ultimately into ministry. I had attended another Fellowship in the past, but it had never grabbed me as All Souls did. And it wasn’t the […]

Who Is This Priestess? Part 3

So after the preceding posts, some questions come to mind, one of which is, What does it mean to be a priestess? Or at least, What does it mean for me? There are several others, but I can’t speak to all of these in one post, but I can speak to the first question, and […]

The Role of Divination in Discernment

There are many tools of discernment. Prayer—reflecting on and asking for clarity and nonattachment to outcome—is central for many forms of discernment. It is the foundation of my practice of discernment. Prayer is the fundamental tool. You cannot make a well-discerned decision if you have decided from the beginning that you know the right answer. […]