Rev. Parisa Parsa of The Public Conversations Project/Essential Partners reflects on how we might hold to the call of the spirit in a nation that feels like it is tearing apart at the seams. What signals do we need to practice and send to find each other and begin to tell a different story?

Rev. Tony Lorenzen and Hopedale Unitarian Parish welcome three guests from Speak Out who share their stories and experiences as people who identify as gay, bisexual, queer, genderqueer, and pansexual.

Rev. Tony Lorenzen reflects on how the covenants we make with each other to practice healthy communications keep our relationships and our congregation healthy.

"Working Class Community" - Rev. Tony Lorenzen reflects on how the shrinking presence and influence of unionized labor has affected American community life.

Rev. Tony Lorenzen reflects on the process of blending his calling to ministry with the congregation's call to ministry and how this requires practicing healthy communication skills important to any committed relationship.

Rev. Tony Lorenzen reflects on the life and work of Rev. Norbert Capek and how his ministry during the Nazi occupation of Prague might inspire us in living out our own faith today.

Hopedale Unitarian Parish's Coming of Age class share their credos - or personal faith statements - with the congregation as part of their Coming of Age ceremony.  Analogous to a Christian Confirmation or a Jewish Bar/t Mitzvah, the Unitarian Univeralist Coming of Age process is seen as a first major step into becoming an adult and being more responsible for developing one's individual spirituality, ethics, and character.

Rev. Tony Lorenzen reflects on the grace or blessing we receive when we are open to seeing the world through another's eyes and how privilege affects our ability and inability to hear and accept as valid the experience and perception of "the other."

Rev. Tony Lorenzen reflects on the "Grace Scale", a sociological tool developed by the late Catholic priest and novelist Andrew Greeley that demonstrated strong positive correlations between people's image of God and world view, cultural attitudes, and political preferences. Rev. Tony suggests Unitarian Universalism is helping to generate a more grace filled religious landscape and perhaps even a more grace-ful God.

Rev. Tony Lorenzen reflects on the theological concept of Grace as understood by the early Christian Church, classical Universalists, and contemporary theologians such as Philip Gulley and U2. Grace is still a viable spiritual foundation for Unitarian Universalism in the 21st century.