Monthly Themes

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  • Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language… Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
    — from Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

The intention of the themed year is to help Unitarian Universalists build a robust spiritual and ethical vocabulary. The themes provide an opportunity to reclaim religious language, deepen spiritual grounding, think theologically, sharpen moral reasoning, and find connection within and with traveling companions. Our themes are intentionally woven throughout our programs for all ages to remind us that this is a life-long journey. We invite you to engage the monthly themes in a number of ways:

Living the Questions: Themes for 2026-27

Here you’ll find the themes for the current year, and resources including readings and poetry, as well as guiding questions for each month. The intention of the themed year is to help Unitarian Universalists build a robust spiritual and ethical vocabulary. The themes are points of departure for religious liberals seeking to think, speak and act theologically, prophetically and prayerfully. The themes reclaim religious language, casting old terms in a new key to deepen spiritual grounding and sharpen moral reasoning.

Monthly Packets

Download November 2026: Covenant

Download October 2026: Living the Questions

Download September 2026: Interdependence