Unlike the tidy, romantic portrait of mothers/parents that reinforce traditional ideas of family, Mamas Day asks us to honor the diverse, full, and complex realities of mothering— and to honor and recognize the fact that we do not live in a society that truly supports/nurtures mothers, parents, and families, not nearly as much as we UU’s tend to … Continue reading All Kinds of Mama

We Unitarian Universalist love us some learning, do we not? We love education, getting education.

The story of people shunning an innovator at the beginning of their endeavor, the innovator persisting despite people’s rejection, and then eventually succeeding and being applauded and revered…this is not an uncommon story in our culture.