During our November Offering Outreach—where we split our congregation's offertory collection equally with a partner nonprofit—we supported Providence Relief Organization (Gondviselés) in their critica...  Read More

Do you ever wonder why music sounds the way it does?On the surface, it's a funny thought experiment. But why, for example, do we have . . . say . . . orchestras? String quartets? Jazz or rock bands? O...  Read More

Okay, why do we, Unitarian Universalists, celebrate Christmas?Historically, both Unitarians and Universalists considered themselves Christians. Heretical Christians, but nonetheless, those are our rel...  Read More

The trajectory from darkness to light is a philosophical throughline of music history. Out of murkiness, turbulence, and minor key emerges the iconic "Ode to Joy" in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. From t...  Read More

When is it appropriate to start celebrating Christmas?Are you one of the no-Christmas-till-after-Thanksgiving people? A casual, put-up-the-tree-the-week-before person? Or do you get excited to see San...  Read More

I realize that we are living in fraught times. Most of us are quite worried about the future under the Trump administration. We are focusing our collective efforts now on providing sanctuary for those...  Read More