From Our Minister

By Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine View Times Record Version (PDF) This week in our congregation, we experienced something too rare these days—a unanimous vote on an issue of urgent importance to our neighbors.  That issue is Tribal Sovereignty for the four Wabanaki tribes that remain […]

By Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine View Times Record Version (PDF) You don’t have to search far to find evidence of the growing polarization of our society. In so many areas of our lives, we are asked to choose sides.  Are we red or blue, conservative

By Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine View Times Record Version (PDF) This Saturday marks the 53rd anniversary of the first ever Earth Day, which began in an era when the stench of “air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity” and mainstream America remained

by Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine  View Times Record Version (PDF) “I’m fine.”  “I’ve got it covered.”  “Nope, I don’t need any help; I’ve got this.”  These are all phrases that I have both spoken and heard spoken to me in response to questions like, “How

By Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine View Times Record Version (PDF) This is a time of year when our thoughts might naturally turn to the topic of Love.  Marketers capitalizing on Valentine’s Day have been trying to convince us for months that we have “obligations” to

View Times Record Version (PDF) By Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine In years past, I might have already made the call by now (mid-January) that my new year’s resolutions were a bust.  Idealism has, from time to time, gotten the better of me. I have fallen

View Times Record Version (PDF) This is a season when candles are being lit with increased regularity. Many religious communities are kindling lights (i.e. on a wreath for Advent and Christmas, a menorah for Hannukah, a kinara for Kwanzaa, a Unitarian Universalist chalice for—well, everything, etc.). Individuals and families are putting lights on their houses

By Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, Maine (uubrunswick.org) View the Times Record Version (PDF) Next week, we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States.  Because of our shameful history of colonialism, this is a complicated holiday to celebrate.  There is a reason that some members of the Wampanoag

The Rev. Dr. Kharma R. Amos, Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick October 21, 2022 View Times Record Version (PDF) Despite growing up in a hippy household that “let it all hang out,” I still absorbed the message from the larger culture that it was improper to discuss religion, sex and politics “in polite company.” As