The Love of Non-Parent Parents

By Kim Moeller  •  July 17, 2025

I’m not a parent. It’s not that I did not want children, I just didn’t know I wanted kids until I was later in life and single. While I know women who were single and chose to have children, I knew that choice was just not for me.

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The Love of Non-Parent Parents

By Kim Moeller  •  July 17, 2025

I’m not a parent. It’s not that I did not want children, I just didn’t know I wanted kids until I was later in life and single. While I know women who were single and..

The Language of Mom

By Lisa B. Thomas  •  July 10, 2025

About ten years ago, my husband John and I planned to visit our son Tim, who had recently relocated to Florida. Part of that trip included a few days at Disney World..

Each Generation Calls to the Next

By Rev. Ruth D. Fitzgerald  •  July 03, 2025

In this new season of life—early into retirement with grown adult children fully into charting their careers and raising children, I’ve found myself reviewing my own..

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By Rev. John Gantt  •  June 26, 2025

Editor’s Note: As we say thank you to Rev. Gantt as he concludes his volunteer service on the United Church Homes’ Blog Team for the past five years, we felt like this..

Opportunity in Aging

By Rev. John Gantt  •  June 19, 2025

For many of us United Church Homes’ blog readers, I suspect Juneteenth is a relatively strange word. It was only four years ago that then President Joe Biden signed..

When Love Finds a Home

By Rev. Dr. Bobbie McKay  •  June 12, 2025

It was a beautiful day in May 1973 and it was our wedding day--a second marriage for both of us and our entry into that new kind of family that was emerging, better..

Greetings From the Front Line

By Rev. Dr. Kenneth Daniel  •  June 05, 2025

Once I officially retired, I became more acutely aware of the many “experts” opining about this phase of life. What should I do? What shouldn’t I do? How do I organize..

Out of Order, Full of Joy: My Unexpected Path

By Ashley Bills  •  May 29, 2025

I’ve never aged in a conventional way. I’m 41, and I find myself living a life that doesn’t quite fit the expected rhythms of age and stage. But honestly? I’m thankful..

Abundant Aging: What Is It?

By Rev. Beth Long-Higgins, VP of Engagement and director of the Center for Abundant Aging  •  May 22, 2025

When introducing myself I am often interrupted. I begin by saying, “I am the director of The Center for Abundant Aging and we seek to…”