Category: Pastoral

5 Reasons to Visit the UUCSJ Booth at GA

Are you going to Kansas City for the UUA’s General Assembly 2018? UUCSJ is and we would love to have you stop by our booth to say hello. If you need some convincing, here are the top 5 reasons YOU should visit us at GA! Get this year’s button! Every year, we at UUCSJ pick […]

Lenten Reflection, Honduras

Praying the “stations of the cross” is a longstanding Lenten tradition all over the Christian world, during which believers are reminded of the last moments Jesus lived through as he carried his own cross to the crucifixion. Throughout Latin America, the Way of the Cross, or Via Crucis, is often an elaborate procession, during which […]

Reflections for Martin Luther King Day

Today we remember the leadership of Martin Luther King in his own chapter of the struggle for racial justice. But we’re living through our own chapter of that struggle today, in which the rise of overt white supremacy and the support it receives from the White House shows us just how far we still have […]

A New Year’s Message

As a new year dawns, everything is the same – The world bound into its history and struggles, as we ourselves are bound. Yet it’s also true that we stand at a threshold, the new year not yet shaped, leaving a great forming power in our hands: what shall we do with this great gift […]

The Momentary Awareness Brought By Gratitude

UUCSJ’s Director, Rev. Kathleen McTigue, reflects on gratitude and hardship. In the midst of the devastating hurricane season this fall, the Boston area (where I live) was warned to brace for a possible hit from Hurricane Nate, before it spun off further east and out into the Atlantic. Folks in our area breathed a sigh […]

Buena suerte to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Lake Chapala and vaya bien

Reverend Gary Kowalski, Minister, Unitarian Congregation of Taos, NM embarked on a sabbatical leave to Lake Chapala, Mexico with the help of a UUCSJ sabbatical grant. Thirty miles south of Guadalajara, the small town of Ajijic rests on the northern shore of Mexico’s largest body of fresh water, Lake Chapala. Flanked by high mountains, pelicans […]