LUUNA is multicultural continental association of Unitarian Universalists dedicated to: 1) Attracting more Latina/os to our Unitarian Universalist tradition and for enhancing their participation within it by providing support, guidance, fellowship and advocacy.
2) Educating the larger Unitarian Universalist community about Latina/o history, culture and diversity; and facilitating Unitarian Universalist involvement in current issues that affect the various Latina/o communities.
3) Sharing aspects of Latina/o spiritual heritage, personal journeys and emerging UU Latina/o Liberation Theology with the larger Unitarian Universalist community thus enriching the worship, mission, and spirituality of our chosen faith.
4) Interacting with the Unitarian Universalist Association and other Unitarian Universalist organizations in order to enhance the justice-making abilities of LUUNA and the aforementioned organizations.
5) Interacting with other justice-making and multicultural organizations in order to bring about effective social change within our Unitarian Universalist movement so that it can truly become multicultural and empowering of traditionally marginalized and under-represented communities.
Membership in LUUNA is not restricted to Latina/os; it is open to all persons who are in sympathy with the aforementioned purposes, without regard to race, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, citizenship, political affiliation and shall not require any adherence to any particular interpretation of religion or to any particular religious belief or creed.
At Meadville Lombard Theological School, we educate students in the Unitarian Universalist tradition to become religious leaders who can-and will-change lives to change the world.
We offer three degree programs:
- Master of Divinity (ministerial degree) - Applications for this degree are currently suspended,
- Master of Arts in Religion (academic degree),
- Master of Arts in Leadership Studies (academic degree), and
- Doctor of Ministry (continuing education degree).
Meadville Lombard's TouchPoint theological education offers students a distance-learning format through a blend of face-to-face classes and electronic classroom and teleconference experiences where they interact with each other and the faculty. Meadville Lombard's academic courses are taught in an intensive format--reducing the amount of time that our students are required to be on campus. Intensive classes meet typically for one week in the months of January, March, and July; each intensive class is the equivalent of thirty-seven hours of residential classroom work. Generous scholarships are available.
For more information, visit our website at www.meadville.edu or contact Kaitlin Butler at kbutler@meadville.edu
Meadville Lombard Theological School is affiliated with the UUA, the University of Chicago, and is in a cooperative relationship with the members of the Association of Chicago Theological Schools.
Officers: Lee Barker, President; Sharon Welch, Provost (Chief Academic Officer); Deborah Bieber, Vice President, Finance and Administration; William Sinkford, Board of Trustees Chair.
C/O First Universalist Church of Rochester
150 Clinton Ave. South
Contact: Margaret Maguire, Treasurer
Rochester, NY 14604
(607) 433-1300
The NYSCU was organized in 1825 and was the principal denominational body for Universalist churches in New York State until 1961. Today the NYSCU administers two endowments and holds annual meetings. One endowment provides service gratuities for retired New York State Universalist ministers and their spouses; the other promotes the growth of Unitarian Universalism and preserves the Universalist tradition through grants and loans. Additionally, the NYSCU appoints the majority of the Board of the St. Lawrence Foundation for Theological Education, which administers a third endowment for the support of students studying for the UU ministry.
Officers: President: Michael L. Scott - scott@cs.rochester.edu; Vice-President, Edward L. Ware - e.ware@icee.org; Secretary: Patricia Krauss - krauss-kraussp@hartwick.edu; Treasurer: Margaret Maguire - mmaguire@stny.rr.com
Kathy Latulippe, Director Investor Relations
8605 Cameron Street, Suite 200
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3650
(301) 588-5533
UUAHC, a community development loan fund, is a nonprofit organization channeling resources from socially responsible donors and investors to community-based housing developers. The UUAHC loan fund makes bleow-market rate loans to provide housing for low-income families, transitional housing for special needs communities, pre-development, and child care facilities. Volunteers make vital contributions to both building projects and operations. Capitalized at almost $5 million, UUAHC has made loans and committments totallyin $11 milliion resulting in over 3000 affordable housing units with a volue of $130 million. UUAHC's more than 270 investments come from churches, religious orders, individuals, banks, foundations, and the UUA.
c/o Unity Church - Unitarian
732 Holly Avenue
Rev. Will Saunders - President
St. Paul, MN 55104
(651) 228-1456
Project Harvest Hope provides assistance for sustainable rural development and supports efforts to strengthen civil society in the Szekelyfold region of Romania. We are working to protect the Unitarian homelands by creating regional, interfaith, interethnic alliances.
Our mission is to help Unitarian Universalists advocate for and with young people. We give special priority to initiatives that promote the well-being of low-income children and youth. Promise the Children works with advocates around the country, as well as in our home state of Massachusetts.
Promise the Children's e-alert service provides regular updates on legislative developments that impact children and youth. To sign up, or for more information about our organization, please visit www.promisethechildrenuu.org
Founded in 1904, Starr King School for the Ministry is a graduate theological school that educates Unitarian Universalist ministers and progressive religious leaders. The school offers a Master of Divinity, a Master of Arts in Religious Leadership for Social Change and a Master of Arts (sponsored by the Graduate Theological Union in collaboration with SKSM), as well as online courses and continuing education for laity and clergy. Starr King is a member of the Graduate Theological Union http://www.gtu.edu, which allows students to take courses at member schools and the nearby University of California, Berkeley.
Starr King emphasizes student-centered, participatory learning that focuses on theological study, work in congregations, supervised clinical pastoral experience, tutorials, independent and self-directed study projects, as well as participation in Starr King's community life and worship. Admission information: admissions@sksm.edu. Online education: cyoung@sksm.edu
Officers: Rebecca Ann Parker, President; Kelly Flood, Vice President for Advancement; Thomas W. Smith, Vice President for Finance and Administration; Patti Lawrence, Director of Strategic Planning; Dorsey Blake, Acting Dean of the Faculty ('07-'08); Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje', Director of the SKSM Luce Project for Multi-religious Theological Education.
Core Faculty: Rev. Dr. Rebecca Ann Parker , Patti Lawrence, Rev. Alma Crawford, Rev. Dr. Gabriella Lettini, Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje'. Visiting Professors: Rev. Dr. David Sammons, Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake. Visiting Scholar: Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock. SKSM Board Chair: Rev. Tom Disrud.
The Council on Church Staff Finances works in cooperation with the UUA and other affiliated organizations to provide information to local societies and their staff members concerning congregational financial management, staff compensation, the UUA Retirement Plan, the UUA Health Insurance Plan, and personal financial planning.
The Council and the UUA jointly sponsor the Office of Church Staff Finances, which administers the various programs of the Council. These include the Association's group dental, life, and disability insurance programs, ministerial financial aid programs, and the benevolent activities of several independent UU organizations. The Council also conducts financial education presentations for seminarians and others preparing for or involved in professional positions serving UU congregations.
The Magi Network encourages and enables the founding of new Unitarian Universalist Christian congregations throughout the United States. Our goal is to provide congregational homes for those within our movement who are often marginalized in other UU congregations because of their beliefs. Activities include raising funds to start and support new UU Christian congregations, holding events at General Assembly to promote UU Christianity, and developing a strategy of UU Christian expansion through new congregations.
C/O Richard Trudeau, Newsletter Editor
30 Briarwood Circle
North Easton, MA 02356
(508) 230-8173
The New Massachusetts Universalist Convention is an organization of individual Unitarian Universalists devoted to fanning the flame of Universalism in order to inform the Unitarian Universalist movement today and to help light the way toward the future. We believe that the gentle and healing religion known as Universalism, of late only a byway trod by relatively few UUs, has the potential to become a highway of renewal for the UU movement as a whole. Our thrice-yearly newsletter is sent free for the asking to any address in North America. We publish pamphlets and brochures, maintain a Speakers Bureau, and sponsor an annual conference.
The Pennsylvania Universalist Convention (PUC) established in 1831, was comprised of all the Universalist Churches in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at that time. It was not dissolved at the time of consolidation of the Universalist and Unitarian denominations in the 1960s; and continues to this day to support the remaining "Historic Universalist Churches/Societies" of Pennsylvania as well as the wider Unitarian Universalist Association. The location and post office address of the registered office of the corporation is 416 Franklin Street, Reading, PA 19601.
The PUC is incorporated under the Non-profit Corporation Law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the purposes of supporting public worship within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania according to both the Universalist religious heritage and the principles and purposes of the Unitarian Universalist Association; the support of such benevolent, charitable, educational, and missionary undertakings within this Commonwealth; and the administration of all trusts which may be confided to this corporation. Today the PUC includes the seven remaining "Historic Universalist Churches/Societies in Pennsylvania, located in Girard, Smithton, Athens/Sheshequin, Towanda, Brooklyn, Reading and Philadelphia.
Officers: President, Joseph Plageman, Reading; Vice President, Elaine Lovegreen, Athens/Sheshequin; Secretary, David Palmer, Brooklyn and Treasurer, Katie Replogle, Athens/Sheshequin.
PO Box 262
Contact: Jeanne Lloyd, President
Maddie Sifantus, Vice President
Wayland, MA 01778
(860) 693-9577
SCM (formerly Society for the Larger Ministry) is a professional organization for UU clergy and laity who minister to the larger world. Founded in 1987, its initiative helped establish 'community ministry' as a specialty category of UU professional ministry in 1991. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit membership organization that advocates, supports, educates, and witnesses on behalf of an international membership that includes clergy, seminarians, laity and friends who agree with the general principles and purposes of SCM and its Code of Professional Practice. SCM sponsors an annual meeting and other events at General Assembly each year, is a member of the UUA Professional Leadership Coordinating Council, and consults with the UUA, UUMA and Ministerial Fellowship Committee about matters pertaining to lay and clergy community ministry. Dues are $75/year for regular membership; $37.50 for economic waivers and $22.50/year for student waivers.
SMR provides financial assistance through its Clergy Fund to aged or needy Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist clergy and, through its Survivors Fund, to needy surviving spouses and orphans of deceased UU clergy. In determining need, consideration is given both to obligations and reasonable expenses and to income and principal resources available from all sources. The funds available for benefits are derived both from contributions for current use and from endowment funds. Benefits are determined by SMR's Board of Directors, over half of whom, including the President and Secretary, are UU clergy. Applications for benefits from SMR and contributions by others wishing to promote the objectives of SMR should be addressed to the Secretary.
- Gathers UU's interested in researching, sharing, and publishing items from the vast body of Unitarian and Universalist religious education history from 1760 to date, which have been unexplored, unrecorded, and forgotten and many inform the present.
- Seeks to build networks to our theological schools and collaborate with them.
- Encourages UU students preparing for professional religious leadership to engage in historical research in religious education.
- Identifies and shares resources of RE history at the local church, district, and denominational levels.
A core group meets four times a year and plans an open meeting to share research at the General Assembly.
Officers: President, Rev. Frank Robertson; Secretary, Dr. Elizabeth M. Strong.
UNIQUEST is a small Unitarian Universalist publishing venture that encourages dialogue, research and scholarship between and among differing Unitarian Universalists and liberal international religious groups; it supports the maintenance of liberal religious archives both nationally and internationally; through its publications and digital archiving, it safeguards and promotes liberal religious heritage and history.
UNIQUEST now operates withion the West Valley UU Church, Glendale, AZ.
Officers: Richard Boeke, Judit Gellerd, John Robinson, Jim Reay, George M. Williams.
Unitarian Universalists for Alternative to the Death Penalty, organized in 1996, is a social action group seeking to give witness to the five UUA resolutions of past years calling for an end to capital punishment. Our mission is providing education and resources so that we may be well prepared to speak and act in ways that shed a truthful light on this issue, and refute the myths that surround it; urging participation in state and local groups that oppose the death penalty, and where no local chapters exist, provide help in organizing them; raising the consciousness of our congregations through workshops, programs, and sermons; and demonstrating how the principles of Unitarian Universalism are affirmed and promoted by our participation in this effort.
We acknowledge and affirm the kinship and interdependence of human and animal, and adopt ethics of interspecies compassion as an integral component of liberal religion. Our ministry is to serve congregations with compassion so that we may support one another in our engaged spiritual paths that includes all beings. Congregations may join as UUAM chapters, or may enroll in our Reverence for Life covenant and certification program. For more information contact UUAM President: Rev. Beth Johnson bethnlil@roadrunner.com
The UUBF exists to facilitate dialogue among UU Buddhists and other UUs interested in Buddhism and its practices. The UUBF is open to all Unitarian Universalists who are Buddhists of any tradition or who are interested in learning more about Buddhism. The UUBF publishes a newsletter, the UU Sangha, and offers workshops at General Assembly and every other year, a convocation. If you wish to join UUBF and/or subscribe to the Newsletter, please contact Richard Swanson, 823 Main Street, Colchester, VT 05446. For further information contact Rev. Trumbore using the above contact information.
Officers and Board: Samuel A. Trumbore, President; Joel Baehr, Secretary; Richard Swanson, Treasurer
Directors, Wayne Arnason, Ellen Johnson-Fay, Judith Wright
"witnessing to the transforming power of the Holy Spirit in our lives"
The UUCF was founded in 1945 in Boston to continue promoting the presence of our historic Christian tradition, to expressing the diverse spirit of contemporary Free Christianity, to providing a home for all those who "follow freely in the spirit of Jesus" regardless of what they call themselves, and to be an ecumenical and inter-religious witness to the power of free religion within the Church Universal. We are now a global organization, serving all regardless of belief, by providing free and progressive and inclusive Christian resources for worship, prayer, bible study, religious education, and theological reflection. We help create and nurture small groups meeting within churches or areas. We publish a scholarly journal, the UU Christian, now in its 60th year, as well as a lively bi-monthly publication, the "Good News" periodical. We are a major presence at General Assemblies, and we host annual Revivals. Executive Director, Rev. Ron Robinson.
Andrew Nicholas, President
26 E 35th Street, Suite 5R
New York, NY 10016
(646) 535-6564
The Unitarian Universalist Community Schools Campaign seeks to found a system of inspiring service centered boarding high schools grounded in and guided by the seven principles of the Unitarian Universalist faith.
In July 2012, the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO) became a part of the Unitarian Universalist Association. They continue their engagement in international advocacy work at the United Nations based on UU values. Learn More
