UUA Top Stories
from "uuworld.org: liberal religion and life," the weekly online magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Updated: 8 hours 17 min ago
Unitarian Universalists to join Global Climate Strike September 20
‘This isn’t something a couple of kids can do. It’s something everybody needs to be taking action on.’
A search for truth and meaning
I would not be the kind of person I am today if I hadn’t kept searching.
Time to dance
We need to stop banishing embodiment from our worship.
On religious grounds
A congregation fought—and won—a three-year battle to install solar panels on its historic building.
‘Always in beta’
The Church of the Larger Fellowship celebrates seventy-five years of innovative ministry.
An essential spiritual and moral value
If our justice work does not emerge from the moral and spiritual value of love, in the end it will reinforce practices of domination and violence, just in new forms.
Moving mountains one stone at a time
As Unitarian Universalists, our journey is to transform the big and the small, to transform ourselves, and to transform the world.
Partnering with indigenous leaders, UU organizations support gathering in South Dakota
Organizers of interfaith, intercultural gathering seek funding to support convergence
GA affirms democracy as vital but corrupted ideal
At annual business meeting, Unitarian Universalists also celebrate completion of fundraising for Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism.
The black oak is a bodhisattva
Simply by existing, it serves many others. For human beings, the work of the bodhisattva is a path of kindness, the choice to serve others as a way of life.
Corruption of democracy
Three recent books examine fascism as a contemporary phenomenon.
The First Principle at work in prisons
Two prison chaplains who minister together in Oregon’s only women’s prison discuss the need to end the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration.
Gift card scammers targeting congregations
In carefully targeted scams, email messages designed to look like they were sent by a minister ask members for gift cards.
We’re right here
Members of TRUUsT, an organization of transgender and nonbinary UU religious professionals, share their stories.
Unitarian Universalists join national protests against migrant detention centers
Members and leaders join July 2 “Close the Camps” protests, plan to join July 12 protests.
Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck is first woman to win Abel Prize
Karen Uhlenbeck, a Unitarian Universalist, made history this year when she became the first woman to win the prestigious Abel Prize for mathematics.
UUs protest Homestead child detention center
Thousands of immigrant children are held at for-profit detention center in Florida.
UUs rally to end mass incarceration, stop Spokane jail expansion
Chanting “End mass incarceration!” and “Schools not cells!” about 1,000 Unitarian Universalists gathered in a public park in Spokane, Washington, for the General Assembly 2019 public witness event.
Commission invites UUs to build a ‘truly hospitable’ faith
‘If we were able to fashion a UUA that could work for the person who had been the most marginalized among us, it would work better for everyone.’
General Assembly 2019 asks, ‘What do we want our faith to be?’
In Spokane and in online groups, Unitarian Universalists will engage with questions of their religion’s purpose and future.