Molly Housh Gordon – Medium

Molly Housh Gordon

Against Efficiency

There’s a story Kurt Vonnegut used to tell, that he was headed out the door one afternoon when his wife stopped him to ask where he was…

Mar 16

Against Efficiency

Mar 16

Survival is A Garden

from the poem “When it really is just the wind, and not a furious vexation,” by Kyle Tran Myhre.

Nov 10, 2024

Survival is A Garden

Nov 10, 2024

An Election-Eve Love Letter to My Fellow Unitarian Universalists

Last year our teens here at the UU Church of Columbia hosted the first youth conference our region has held since Covid struck four years…

Nov 5, 2024

An Election-Eve Love Letter to My Fellow Unitarian Universalists

Nov 5, 2024

Drawing Near

Start here, with these powerful words from Aurora Levins Morales, which are quoted liberally below…

Oct 7, 2024

Drawing Near

Oct 7, 2024

The Sacredness of the Body

When was the last time you felt… I mean, really, truly felt the sacredness of your body?

Jun 11, 2023

The Sacredness of the Body

Jun 11, 2023

Where Everything Depends

Vine and branch we’re connected in this world of sound and echo, figure and shadow, the leaves contingent, roots pushing against earth. An…

Apr 22, 2023

Where Everything Depends

Apr 22, 2023

The Revolution Will Be Slow

What would shift in your life if you knew, deep in your bones, that you had plenty of time?

Dec 6, 2022

The Revolution Will Be Slow

Dec 6, 2022

Forget the Great Resignation, Let’s Call it the Great Organization

May Day reflections from the Rev. Molly Housh Gordon

May 1, 2022

Forget the Great Resignation, Let’s Call it the Great Organization

May 1, 2022

Holding Hands and Climbing

An Easter Reflection

Apr 17, 2022

Holding Hands and Climbing

Apr 17, 2022

Sheltering Each Other

In a poem in his Daily Prayer book, the Irish poet Padraig O Tuama examines an old Irish Proverb, “Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na…

Feb 27, 2022

Sheltering Each Other

Feb 27, 2022

God, Too, Was Freezing and Hopeless: A Primer on Liberation Theology for Our City Leadership

On a Tuesday earlier this month, a local business owner here in Columbia, Missouri was walking home at the end of a late night, when he…

Jan 19, 2022

God, Too, Was Freezing and Hopeless: A Primer on Liberation Theology for Our City Leadership

Jan 19, 2022

The Power of Small Joys

Happy Magic Manufacturing Season!

Dec 5, 2021

The Power of Small Joys

Dec 5, 2021

Grieving And Loving A World in (Climate) Crisis

Content Note: This piece includes descriptions of a movie in which a child dies and a personal story about a frightening health scare for…

Dec 1, 2021

Grieving And Loving A World in (Climate) Crisis

Dec 1, 2021

Too Much For Hearts To Hold

by Rev. Molly Housh Gordon

Sep 19, 2021

Too Much For Hearts To Hold

Sep 19, 2021

A poem about billionaires in space (but actually about the rest of us)…

The billionaires are making their exit strategy: Bezos & Branson, headed for space, forgetting, perhaps, that they’ve already filled it…

Jul 20, 2021

A poem about billionaires in space (but actually about the rest of us)…

Jul 20, 2021

Trusting Gravity

There is this thing that bodies do: Some do it less than we would like, Some do it more than is helpful, And maybe there are a handful out…

Jan 24, 2021

Trusting Gravity

Jan 24, 2021

Resolved: To Be More Free

In the third quarter of his life, which is to say, as long as I knew him, my Grandfather was obsessed with following the literature on how…

Jan 3, 2021

Resolved: To Be More Free

Jan 3, 2021

Healing the nation? For whom?

Here we are, in the dust of a fight for our lives and the lives of our Black and brown and queer and trans and migrant and disabled and…

Nov 8, 2020

Healing the nation? For whom?

Nov 8, 2020

Handfuls of Petals

Last month I took a drive next door to Kansas to “walk home” a beloved departed church elder by officiating a small graveside service with…

Oct 26, 2020

Handfuls of Petals

Oct 26, 2020

No Going Back

A couple of weeks ago, my spouse and I were lying in bed debriefing the day, a familiar ritual in a bewildering time. We talked about the…

May 8, 2020

No Going Back

May 8, 2020

Molly Housh Gordon

Molly Housh Gordon

The Rev. Molly Housh Gordon is minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church-Columbia, MO. She is passionate about healing the soul wounds of supremacy systems.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Rules
Terms
Text to speech