The underlying mechanism for ‘persistent possibility’ is perseverance. A people or community cannot persevere. Each individual perseveres and the community and people emerge as a result. Each snowflake that falls joins others that were there. They form the mountain of snow that eventually rushes down as an avalanche. The community of UU that holds to the … Continue reading The Beat Goes On
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
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
