I believe that the CLF mission statement is a recipe for hope: We seek to cultivate wonder, imagination, and the courage to act.

In what is surely the most famous English-language description of hope,  Emily Dickinson declares that...

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Outside my window, past the razor wire and fence, lies a ridge. A quartet of blue jays and a woodpecker live in the scrub oaks on the left.

Enormous thanks to the following congregations and organizations, which generously contributed to the CLF between April and August 2018. We are so grateful!

From Hasidic tradition we have a little story about Rabbi Simcha Bunim Bonhart, who lived in the Polish village of Peshischa at the turn of the 19th century.

I grew up Catholic, even pondered becoming a nun, and studied theology with awesomely radical social justice Jesuits before following the theological thread of my life right into Unitarian Universalist seminary.

My first impulse in trying to describe the essence and practice of humility was simply to say: Look at the current U.S. president and then think about his opposite in personality and behavior—that will pretty well define humility.

Perhaps you watched the comedy special on Netflix by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, entitled “Nanette.” If you didn’t, perhaps you’ve seen some of the media coverage about it, using words like “game-changing” and “comedic revolution.”

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