Rev Pamela Barz began her ministry serving the UU Church of Saco-Biddeford and now has returned to Maine where she offers coaching to help clergy and others get "unstuck" and live from deep gladness. Contact her at: .
Rev. Jo is the Executive Director for UU Mass Action and is busy mobilizing and organizing with the many UU Mass Action campaigns. She is also quite busy with her 2 year old daughter, Simone, and doing per diem work as a chaplain at Beth Israel Hospital. She loves liberation, dreaming, the ocean, and a fine roast chicken dinner.
My toddler and I recently moved and my little one has struggled to call our new apartment home. She calls it a ‘hotel’ and it is among many places she asks about at the end of the day. We often say that ‘home is where the heart is’ or ‘you are my home.’ These platitudes … Continue reading Home is where the ‘hotel’ is
We are consistently urged through our Unitarian Universalist values and principles to see our dignity tied to the dignity of others. A dignity that when seen in others is Godly, a type of holiness that connects us to a Love, perhaps a God, who tells us to love the stranger and to love the stranger … Continue reading Immigration Justice
In his book “Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder”, Dachner Keltner, a psychology scholar, defines “awe” as “the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.” In my experience, “awe” is a concept NOT often felt by UUs. We greatly value logic, rationality, and critical … Continue reading Allowing Ourselves to Feel Awe
In a world where devastation is palpable every day, it is often difficult not to default to despair and fear. Though this despair is so present, I find there is hope in letting yourself grieve. Are people feeling weighed down by grief? Is it actually despair? What is weighing you down these days? Join me … Continue reading From Grief to Justice
