Christopher Columbus' acts of extreme violence, mass murder, and barbarism against the native people of the Americas can no longer be ignored or relegated to the status of a mere foot note in history....

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Event in Littleton, MA by First Church Unitarian, Littleton on Saturday, October 4 2025

It's 9/11 today, and yet it has -- for the first time -- been overshadowed by new horror. Yesterday, in addition to the tragic shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado, Charlie Kirk was murdered/assassinated in Utah. I do understand why people on the left hate everything that Kirk stood for; I do too. I never paid much attention to him until yesterday, to be honest.

Usually July is a "study leave" month for UU ministers. This has been the busiest July in all my years as a parish minister! There's just so much going on. Luckily, I love my calling. Right now I am in Pennsylvania, visiting family. It is good to get a break. What a bizarre time we are in in the United States.

No, I didn't invent this concept that "ICE is the new Gestapo", but it sure rings true. One of the more outrageous local ICE arrests/abductions/kidnappings was of Marcelo Gomes da Silva, a high school honor student, athlete, and band member who was arrested/abducted/kidnapped by ICE on his way to volleyball this past Saturday. ICE abducted him and detained him from Saturday through this week.

I've been thinking about these changes for a long time... I've been wanting to get my hair cut short. I've had it short a few times in my life, but it's been a while. And I've wanted to wear contact lenses again. Finally, I just did it. Here's "the new me". The "new" Rev. Lara Hoke But more importantly, I've been getting more involved in ways to stop some of the evil of this Administration, particularly the arresting (kidnapping!) of immigrants without due process.

Write your legislators now—our communities are watching, and they need to feel the urgency from the streets in Massachusetts. We’re facing an escalating crisis with ICE detentions tearing families apa...

But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.

The Unitarian Universalist Association recently put out a strong statement of solidarity with the trans and nonbinary community. It's almost unbelievable to me that the T**** Administration is trying to push the fiction that there are just two genders when there aren't even just two sexes. It's willful ignorance, as usual. I should have posted here on the Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), March 31.

***RALLY AND MARCH*** MC: **Jean-Luc Pierite** | President | North American Indian Center of Boston **SCHEDULE:** 11:00 am: Meet at Parkman Bandstand 11:15 am: Kickoff speaker: - **Rev. Mariama W...

I could continue to post about the horrors in the United States of 2025 under the Trump Administration. It's just never-ending. I'm happy and proud to say that parishioners of my congregation are doing a great job of defending democracy, which is a Unitarian Universalist value. We'll be marching in Boston on April 5. But for now... I want to talk about my journey of trying to learn Spanish (Español).

The order says that "divisive narratives" must be purged from the US museums and research centres.