During Sunday’s sermon, I gave everyone a gift, which is also homework. To pass out four “You Make a Difference” gold stickers this week. But I forgot to bring it full circle – let us know what happened when you gave one out! Send an email to minister@liveoakuu.org and let...

“We had a whole plan,” my mother (age 94) told me. “I would pick up your brothers and sister from school and drive from New York to Arkansas, where your grandparents were living. Your father would catch up with us there.” It was October 1962. My parents lived in Rochester,...

On Tuesday, overwhelmed by the blizzard of executive orders, news that Medicaid’s portal was down in all fifty states, and the repeated attacks on the rights of transgender people, I added five pints of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream into my cart. I don’t recommend this. I mean, if you...

After Sunday’s service, which addressed Martin Luther King’s argument that equating a person’s value with their financial means is an “unjust measurement of human worth,” Live Oak member Michael Van Slyke shared that he finds it frustrating when the news media describes someone as being “worth” their financial resources, e.g....

This Sunday is our annual “Fire Communion.” This is a participatory service, one of our four community-based rituals, in which which we honor that we are each on our individual life journeys, but we do not journey alone. On Sunday, we will be noting things that we would like to...