With the closing of the current church year, and the beginning of our new fiscal year, I, and others in… Read more Goals
Author: Rick
My life-long passion is in the arts: music, theater, visual arts, and literature. I graduated from Cal Arts in 1985 with a degree in music composition. After a career in Human Resources with the AIDS Project Los Angeles and as a parish minister for Unitarian Universalist churches in the Los Angeles area, I retired in 2025 and pursued my artistic work: drawing, painting, composing, and creative writing.
50th Anniversary of Stonewall
50 years ago, in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, a Saturday, the New York Police Department launched… Read more 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
A Place of Peace
A place of peace Or maybe not a place but surely peace The mentality of peace Where enough is all… Read more A Place of Peace
Asylum
Our UU value of world community puts us in partnership with people fleeing violence, poverty, and persecution in their home… Read more Asylum
District Assembly
I wanted to write about the office repair and refurbishment process. It’s looking great. But I’m writing this column the Saturday afternoon… Read more District Assembly
From the Ground Up
Part One: “A Flower Blooming at Your Door” I spent a week in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago,… Read more From the Ground Up
Love and Hope
Part One: “A Flower Blooming at Your Door” I spent a week in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago,… Read more Love and Hope
For the Work of the Church
We have been talking in worship, all this year, about the Five Developmental Tasks that the Unitarian Universalist Association recommends… Read more For the Work of the Church
In the Desert
Jim and I had a chance to spend a weekend in Palm Springs last month. One day we drove further east… Read more In the Desert
Three Little Words
If we were to write a mission statement for this church… Well, we have one, and it’s long, not particularly… Read more Three Little Words