Candle Category: Remembrance

Claudia Sanders lit a candle for Lydia Thornton, chair of New Jersey Prison Justice Watch, who died last Sunday after several weeks in the hospital. Lydia was kind and gentle and worked tirelessly for the humane treatment of incarcerated people. She will be greatly missed for her dedication, beautiful spirit and compassion.

Jane Gaertner and Kate Philipson remembered their husband and dad, Neil Philipson, whose birthday would have been on October 3rd.

We light this candle in remembrance of all the victims, their families, and the survivors of the attacks on September 11, 2001. May this light bring connection and healing as we remember.

We lit two candles for two beacons of the Unitarian Universalist tradition that died, each of health challenges, this past week. May Rev. Rob Eller-Issacs and Rev. Mark Ward rest in peace. For decades they strove to build congregations and serve the holy of their understanding through acts of justice, love and mercy. May the...

Jennifer Rittner lit a candle and shared, “My beloved mother, Bernadette Clemente DeSouza Rittner, became an ancestor 1 year ago on June 23. She was an extraordinary and extraordinarily complicated person who sought love, beauty, and care, and tried to create as much of the same as she could in the time she had with...

Wendy McNeil lit a candle for her friend Sally Lederman, a full professor of Chemistry at Columbia. Sally was a generous and brilliant woman, and she will be missed dearly.