Spring is my least favorite season. It took my Seasonal Celebrations colleagues a bit by surprise when I volunteered to write about our upcoming Equinox program. You see, as a person who mostly walks places (busing and biking as the weather permits) I know it’s the dirtiest and messiest time here in the northern part of Laurentia.* People often romanticize Spring as… Read More »The Messiness of Spring
It has been cold and icy in Minnesota, and some are longing for spring. But Kurt Vonnegut says that March and April are not spring; rather, they are the unlocking season. Now is the time for what is frozen to thaw, and what has been buried to emerge.
It takes a special kind of resilience to insist on love, to keep choosing it when it seems an impossible task, to act in the knowledge that only love can overcome hate. This isn’t a ‘Valentine’s Day’ kind of love; it is something more primal, more wild, more radically collective.
What the heck is “Foraging for Our Future?” These are times set aside for communal reflection on topics germane to FUS and its future. They are designed to give the whole FUS community, in this interim time, the opportunity to listen to one another and broaden understanding. One of the basic premises of the format of these conversations is that when something is shared, even with as few as two other people, that content and feeling ‘enters the field’… Read More »A Synopsis – “Our Congregational Covenant” Foraging for Our Future 6 – November 9, 2025
One of the basic premises of the Foraging for Our Future conversations is that when something is shared, even with as few as two other people, that content and feeling ‘enters the field’ and is then able to be part of the ‘harvest’ of the community. If we have listened well to one another, and done some self-reflection, new possibilities emerge and grow. At this… Read More »A Synopsis – “Service is its Law?” Foraging for Our Future 9 – February 8, 2026
We’ve talked of resistance, and now, as we see that we are in this for the long haul, we must lean into our resilience. Whence cometh it? What ancient knowing holds us up? What nascent understanding pulls us forward, one step in front of the other?
We use our directory provider, Breeze, to mail our Friday updates each week. In the past 24 hours we’ve experienced an issue where outgoing mail from Breeze “bounces” for some email addresses, and it seems to be a particular issue with Outlook. We’re sending the update out as usual to try and reach as many people as possible, and will… Read More »1/23/26 Breeze Email issue & Friday Update
Humanism isn’t the opposite of faith – it’s the opposite of authoritarianism. Unitarian minister Curtis Reese, a co-founder of the American Humanist Association, referred to humanism as the “religion of democracy” for a reason – because of our radical belief that truth, morality, and power do not rightly reside in an external source, as theistic systems may claim, but in… Read More »Assembly: “The Religion of Democracy” with Fish Stark
There is so much to resist in these times, and it’s important to remember that the foundation of resistance is not necessarily potential success. Maybe we resist because of what will be lost if we do not, or because we dream of something different for our children…or maybe because there’s no viable alternative.
One of the basic premises of the Foraging for Our Future conversations is that when something is shared, even with as few as two other people, that content and feeling ‘enters the field’ of the community and is then able to be part of the ‘harvest’ of communal possibility. What you contribute determines what happens. At this session, we explored how things work… Read More »A Synopsis -“How Things Work at FUS” Foraging for Our Future 8 – January 4, 2026
