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Rev. Marti Keller discusses the pitfalls of excessive optimism, and gives us permission to be the occasional pessimist (or realistic optimist).

 © Rev. Marti Keller I woke this morning to the usual American holiday mash up of the hallowed and the commercialized, especially poignant this year. The entire front page of the New York Times was devoted to listing 1,000 of the 100,000 people in this country who have died so far in the pandemic- their names, their ages, where they lived, and something from their obituaries. Memorializing them this weekend when the usual ways of remembering our military dead have […]

More than a century ago, the Unitarian minister Theodore Parker evoked the image of the moral arc of the universe bending toward justice. How does that powerful image inform our justice work today? Listen to Rev. Linda Hart Green speak on “bending the arc.”

Rev. Marti Keller’s minister’s message for March 22, 2020.

The story of Emma Lazarus, who wrote this inscription for the statue of liberty — and was a pioneering advocate for immigrants and refugees — in recognition of women’s history month and her intersectional work.

Rev. Marti Keller and Jess Hunt discuss Mirriam-Websters 2019 word of the year: “they”