Do you have to be an activist to be a Unitarian Universalist?

Six leaders reflect on activism and religious identity in a racially and politically charged era.

Original: Do you have to be an activist to be a Unitarian Universalist?.

About the Authors

Takiyah Nur Amin
Takiyah Nur Amin

Dr. Takiyah Nur Amin (she/her) is a dance scholar, educator, and academic success strategist. She has identified as a Unitarian Universalist for more than 20 years. Dr. Amin serves as a member of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee (MFC.)

Robin Bartlett

Robin Bartlett is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist raised atheist by humanist Unitarian Universalist parents. She found Jesus in a UU church in her late twenties. Turns out he’d been there all along and she didn’t know it. Robin is the Senior Pastor at the First Church in Sterling,...

The Rev. Ranwa Hammamy
Ranwa Hammamy

The Rev. Ranwa Hammamy is a chaplain for an elder care provider in Oakland, California, and is a community minister affiliated with Mt. Diablo UU Church in Walnut Creek, California. She is co-president of druumm (Diverse Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries).

Paul Rasor

Paul Rasor is a Unitarian Universalist minister who has served congregations in Arlington and Lexington, Massachusetts. He is also the former director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom at Virginia Wesleyan College, and the author of two books, Reclaiming Prophetic Witness: Liberal...

Marilyn Sewell
Marilyn Sewell

Marilyn Sewell is a writer, leader, activist, and speaker. She is the Minister Emerita of the First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, where she served as the Senior Minister for seventeen years before she retired. She has edited or authored ten books, her latest a memoir, Raw Faith: Following...

The Rev. Pamela Wat
Pamela Wat

The Rev. Pamela Wat is minister of the Denton UU Fellowship in Denton, Texas, where she also volunteers with OUTreach Denton, a local LGBT resource provider.

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