INSIGHTS Blog
This is an archive of the weekly blog posts from our former minister, Rev. Dr. Rick Belous. We hope you enjoy reading them and wish Rev. Rick success with his new position as senior minister at Unity in the Seven Hills in Lynchburg VA!
Read along as Rev. Dr. Rick Belous shares personal stories, anecdotes, insights and more that will entertain you, challenge you, and ultimately inspire you!
Before his call to ministry, Rick was Vice President of Research and Chief Economist for the United Way. He was also an adjunct lecturer of economics at George Washington University. He is an ordained minister with Unity Worldwide Ministries as well as serving as an advisor to them.
Love is not passive. It creates space, it opens doors, it clears away fear and judgment so that joy can enter. This Sunday, December 21st, Rev. Luz will share a message that brings us back to love. What might our lives, our relationships, our communities look like if we allowed Love to lead us back to joy? We encourage you to invite someone to join you this Sunday. Together, let’s joyously celebrate making room for love!
Join us after the service this Sunday for our Winter Solstice celebration, The Longest Night, The Brightest Hope, at 1:00 pm. Gathered in sacred community, we’ll honor the turning of the seasons and the eternal light within in all of us. Together we will celebrate the Winter Solstice with story, music, meditation, and ritual, honoring the sacred mystery of darkness and welcoming the return of the light.
Click here to watch the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@UnityofRoanokeValley
November 22, 2022 It was 2017, and my wife, Debbie, had just died of cancer. Here I was, the widowed father of two girls. Rachel was 13 at the time, and Therese was two years old. I had also just started as the senior minister at Unity Center of Tulsa.…
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November 15, 2022 For several reasons, the British writer and scholar C.S. Lewis has meant a great deal to me. His works have impacted my life, and I know there is a long line of C.S. Lewis admirers. When I visited Oxford University, I always made a point to visit…
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November 8, 2022 It is not even Thanksgiving yet, and a part of me is thinking about Christmas. And not any old part of Christmas! I’ve been thinking about Santa Claus and that old song: He sees you when your sleeping He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve…
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November 1, 2022 In one week, it will be Election Day. Please make sure that you go out and vote! I hope that you will never view this blog as being involved in partisan politics. I have tried to keep such politics out of what I say. You don’t come…
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October 25, 2022 The World Series is about to start, and it should be a grand climax to an exciting year in baseball. As a Yankees fan, it’s been interesting watching Aaron Judge going for the home run title and baseball’s so-called “triple crown” (i.e., the highest total of home…
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October 18, 2022 A column by Rev. Vicki Kemper recently caught my eye. Of course, how could this column not catch my attention? I saw that Rev. Vicki is the senior minister at the First Congregational Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. I had just dropped off my daughter, Rachel, for her…
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October 11, 2022 I recently read several blog posts by Pamela Toussaint Howard that moved me. She is a young native New Yorker who is now working out of Atlanta. She is a journalist and author or co-author of eight books. Her spiritual insights apply ancient truths to dealing with…
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October 4, 2022 I like to think of myself as an “early adopter” and “ahead of the curve.” But the reality is that I am often not one to see a so-called “inflection point,” where there is a significant change in the direction of a social trend. However, there is…
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September 27, 2022 I ask you not to dismiss what I am about to tell you as being just a crass story from a former New Yorker because I think there might be a lesson in it for you, even if you have spent little time in the Big Apple.…
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