Spilling the Light

Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto (formerly Theresa) is a Unitarian Universalist minister and activist. They have worked in parish ministry, interim ministry, and hospital chaplaincy with veterans. Soto lives in the Pacific Northwest and seeks to serve the mission and values of Unitarian Universalism, along with the healing of the world.

Spilling the light


Holy Quiet


This cannot be enough America for me


i have tried to write this three times


A Simple Hope


We offer you an imperfect welcome


Snowflakes: A Guide


Taraxacum


Let my life be forward-reaching


Finding Our Dreams


Let us say to our hearts


A Charm for Hope: A String


being universalist is like


But Why This, Why Now


Blessed Are the Hungry


Am I meant to call up courage?


dear trans*, non-binary, genderqueer and gender-expansive friends and kin: (and those of us whose gender is survival)


The Magic of an Empty Palm


To the people who have mistaken freedom for liberation


Neither divisor nor dividend


The Spark Between


The Wonder of a Fist


everything is still on fire


I cannot prove to you that I am/we are human


Showing up for (F)friend(s)


Being a person of color in America today


Bring your broken hallelujah here


We Hold Hope Close


Prevail: an etymology


There are lots of ways to stay alive


The Elephant in the Room, Every Single Room


The Advice


Notes on a Napkin (White Supremacy)


Boldly, you must hang your light


My grandmother’s grinding stone/El molcajete de mi abuelita


The part that is not water


When your best friend has four or so legs


Codes/witching


We Hold On


The Name of Tyranny


Where Life Sends You


Mitochondrial Gift


Broken Shellsong


Survivor/ship


Remembering the future


Time for the Work


Reversals of Fortune


the butterfly effect


A Rock in Our Pocket


The Life Slow and Precious


America, is this freedom?


Siete principios de unitario universalista, bueno, más el primero


You are not wrong


Stretch


When There Is No Happy Ending