UUA Top Stories
from "uuworld.org: liberal religion and life," the weekly online magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
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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.
Creating a greener General Assembly
For seventeen years, UUA GA Director Jan Sneegas has led a green meeting revolution.
Environmental taboos
Perhaps there is a place for taboos in Unitarian Universalism.
The ball that didn’t break us
What Unitarian Universalists can learn from the handling of the controversial Thomas Jefferson costume ball at the 1993 UUA General Assembly.
Rhode Island church hosts tenth annual LGBTQ prom for youth
250 teens and young adults attend tenth Born This Way Prom, sponsored by Channing Memorial Church’s Interweave group.
A sigh hollowed out the chamber of the heart
Words on a page suggest associations, and then the associations stimulate original ideas.
I am 17
Thoughts on adolescence, growing up, and bridging into adulthood.
Deep magic
I'll keep being open to deep magic until I find a way to believe in it.
Moved to serve
A new location for a Michigan congregation opened up opportunities to help immigrants and refugees. Moving has been nothing short of transformative.
Nothing we do will be perfect
To work for justice, religious liberals should let perfectionism go.
BLUU announces black theology symposium this fall
Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism drafts bylaws, introduces membership program, and works to end cash bail.
One Unitarian Universalist’s way
Finding myself on the Camino de Santiago.