The Christian-Nationalist War on Gender & Sexuality

UU Analysis & Response Guest speaker, Joe Wegwert Ph.D. offers a lens for making sense of the “insensible” attacks on gender and sexuality from Christian Nationalist ideology. These attacks are inseparable from those aimed at immigration, reproductive rights, education, science, and the rise of authoritarianism. Assumptions grounded in simplistic and inaccurate binaries about gender and sexuality are … Continue reading The Christian-Nationalist War on Gender & Sexuality

Choosing Hope

Hope is not wishful thinking—it is a spiritual discipline, a practice of imagination, and an act of defiance against despair. In challenging times, choosing hope can feel risky, even foolish. Yet our Unitarian Universalist tradition calls us to be people of persistent possibility, to see beyond what is and lean toward what could be. Today … Continue reading Choosing Hope

Cultivating Compassion

Compassion is not simply a feeling; it is a practice, a discipline, and, at times, a radical act. In a world conditioned toward separation and speed, how do we slow down, soften our hearts, and choose to see one another fully? This Sunday we reflect on compassion as a spiritual muscle—one that requires tending, intention, … Continue reading Cultivating Compassion