My Ever-evolving Morning Ritual

by skepticalseeker | Feb 24, 2018 | Paganism, personal growth, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

I started doing a morning ritual a few months ago, in late Summer 2017. When I first started, I had a practical and mental-health focused goal in mind. I’ve noticed that when I dive into my day (sometimes no so enthusiastically as that wording sounds) my brain...

My Atheist Unitarian Universalist Wishlist

by skepticalseeker | Oct 28, 2017 | Atheism, Unitarian Universalism

In atheist organizing, we talk a lot about the need for community and what we can do to help create community for the non-religous. A lot of atheists lose friends or valuable communities when they come out and are honest in their circles about what they think. And...

Observations of a UU Atheist: Theological Diversity

by skepticalseeker | Oct 17, 2017 | Atheism, Unitarian Universalism

  I am still getting used the diversity of religious views that I hear expressed in my UU church. For most of my life a religious community meant adherence to a creed and uniformity of beliefs. Growing up in an Evangelical Christian church I was taught that a...

Atheist UU — Thoughts 6 months after joining

by skepticalseeker | Oct 9, 2017 | Atheism, Unitarian Universalism

It has been nearly 6 months since I officially signed the book to join Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church. My original reasons for revisiting the UU churches in town (as this is not my first encounter) is to find a regularly-meeting community and children’s...

Learning how to trust myself

by skepticalseeker | Jun 18, 2017 | Atheism, personal growth, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

One of the hurdles in my personal growth has been learning to trust my own mind and my own memories. This is particularly difficult with anxiety because of the way my mind tries to jump from thing to thing while I am hardly even aware of what is happening. I’ve been...

What is needed for Religious Pluralism to work?

by skepticalseeker | Jun 3, 2017 | christianity, Unitarian Universalism, Vlogging

These are my thoughts briefly about the idea of religious pluralism expressed by Eboo Patel in the book Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation. Which is a very good read, by the way, and I barely stretch the surface...