From Our Minister

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