My family attended a Presbyterian church when I grew up, and when I was 13 I went through “confirmation class”. We learned the names of all the books in the Bible, in order and, more importantly, the tenets of the faith, i.e. what we Presbyterians believe about God, Jesus, the afterlife, etc. It wasn’t totally

With so many new people visiting and joining the congregation I’ve found myself wondering how many are like me, having almost no prior history of being in a spiritual community. I’ve gotten a lot out of UUCP during my short time here, and I thought I might share my own experience, in case it resonates

How did my secular Jewish husband and I, a Presbyterian-raised Gentile, end up as members of UUCP? Well, it’s like this… Richard (AKA Duke) and I met in December of 1979, moved in together in 1980, and flew to Las Vegas to get married on March 30, 1983. Our first child, Sam, was born in

It’s been nearly 15 years now, but I vividly remember my first visit to UUCP. It was a time when our teenager (then named Laura) was exploring her sexuality and receiving lots of harsh push-back from other teens at the suburban high school that he attended, particularly from kids who viewed themselves as religious. Understandably,

I’m a life-long UU, which means that those of you who have actually gone through a more formal discernment process of becoming/ identifying as a UU are likely far ahead of me…as the need to leave my childhood UUism and go to “something else” never dawned on me. To borrow from Rev. Tim Temerson’s classic

This is my final newsletter before sabbatical. It was so wonderful to have such a beautiful and meaningful send-off this past Sunday. In preparation for the sabbatical, we had several discussions about what to do with this newsletter column. At first, we figured we would just suspend it for 5 months. Then, like many things