Annie Hanley-Miller reports from the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) Activate New Orleans program– Ed. Building Community Overcomes Difference by Annie Hanley–Miller I brought back many things to my home community from my experience at Activate NOLA. It was an intense...

The Results are in! Last year, we asked youthUnitarian Universalist Association (UUA) in BostonMAComing of Age? Our Whole Lives? How could your church serve you better? How would you change it? What is your favorite part of church? Why?...

"What do you do when you come head to head with the very evil you are working against?" Jack Spector-Bishop reports from the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) Activate Southwest Border program– Ed. “The ants crawl under it, the birds fly around it, the sky connects over...

At the time this post was published, there were a mere 270 days before thousands of Unitarian Universalists would gather from around the nation to learn, worship and do business together at General Assembly 2016 in OH.Youth Caucus experience yet. Please give them a hearty welcome! Bio: My name is...

Jessica, a young adult, is coming up on the one year anniversary of when she found WellSprings Congregation, “A community charged full with the charge of the soul,” outside of PhiladelphiaPA.Unitarian Universalist for five years. She found the Springboards, small groups for spiritual growth...

We share Celena Todora's message to all Young adult Unitarian Universalists - Ed. RockfordILMidAmerica region, you are welcome! Our theme is CONduit, which will be centered around opening up conversations about UUism beyond our spiritual communities. Hope to see some of you there :) ~ Celena...

Worship and GA Talks Coordinators Needed! http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/yaga_2016_staff_app.pdf… MUST BE RECEIVED BY OCTOBER 4, 2015 (http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/yaga_2016_staff_app.pdf… HERE) Ayla Halberstadt and Cameron Young, YA@GA 2016 Co-facilitators...

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Youth Caucus attendees Collen Lee & Phoebe Mussman share this reflection of their experience attending General Assembly 2015. – Ed. By: Colleen Lee & Phoebe Mussman Today. Today, 5,000 hearts beat faster. Hues of blue, green, and every shade of the rainbow proudly glow. Today, we are encompassed...

It's not easy being a campus minister. This work of nurturing students spiritually and providing inclusive community on college campuses is crucial, and yet it is also taxing and can be isolating. That's why it's so important to find peer support!...

You Are Challenged: Make Change Happen Now A message from Lauren Amabile and the Unitarian Universalist Church Council, asking you to respond before the end of this month. UU Church of the Philippines (UUCP) is taking towards youth development by offering Our Whole Lives (OWL) sexuality education...

Bro! Listen to the kids! On Sunday, August 30th, Kanye West gave a speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. I know, I know, that happened a week ago, but I was listening to his speech the other day and realized Kanye West was talking about and creating church that night....

Great resources to better support Unitarian Universalist (UU) youth and young adults of color ...

By guest blogger Amelia Diehl . -ed I am so grateful to have been able to attend the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice's Grounded and Resilient Organizer’s Workshop Climate Justice Training in Chicago, IL and feel connected again to a community and to a movement. I think I might...

UU–UNO Interns Jen Caplan and Audrey Carleton report from the United Nations Learn more about leadership opportunities at the competitive UU–UNO office By Jen Caplan and Audrey Carleton (re-posted from the blog of the UUA International Office) International Youth Day. The theme of this year’s...

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Essential Questions and Answers At some point in our lives (or at multiple points for many of us) we ask ourselves, What do I want to be when I grow up? I’ve answered this question by wrestling with a variety of career choices: “a farmer, a teacher, a filmmaker, an artist, a youth minister,”...

So, lots of folks in the progressive world I inhabit on social media had a lot of opinions about Bernie Sanders went to speak to a crowd about social security and medicare and was interrupted by Black Lives Matter movement the day before the first Unitarian Universalist minister, and a middle cla...

Unitarian Universalists are showing up to commemorate this event that pushed UUs have gathered to be in Ferguson on this anniversary, invited by interfaith organizers. Others marched in their home communities, LGBTQ+first principle is that we believe everyone has inherent worth and dignity, we...

A Day of Civil Disobedience for Social Justice @RevElizabethNUUAUnitarian Universalists, local congregations, and others participated in acts of resistance to mark the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown. This day of resistance was the result of organizing for social justice and change that...

This story comes to us from Aislynn Pasierb, a member of Eliot Unitarian Chapel in Kirkwood, Missouri, who shares her recent Youth Leadership School experience in Beloit, WI. - ed. UU Youth Midwest Leadership School (YMWLS) in Beloit, WI this past July. YMWLS gave me the chance to create lasting...

Read the inside story from Youth Caucus 2015 Co-Business Manager Isabelle McCurdy on how the Youth Caucus sponsored Action of Immediate Witness, "Support Black Lives Matter" came to be. When Kara Marler, my Sr....

Guest blogger Yashasvi Janamanchi attended the Unitarian Universalist Association Mul… Leadership School (MLS) this July. This post is an excerpt of Yashi's reflections from the youth-led worship at his home congregation of Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church. -ed. While I was at MLS, I...

Consistency is Key Rosemary Dodd is a student at Wellesley College and was very involved in youth leadership in her Unitarian Universalist(UU) community back home in California. She is part of the UU student group at Wellesley, supported by a UU chaplain, and she can see the difference it makes...

Know it to Defeat it By Aija Jansone The Young Adult program at Westside Unitarian Universalist in Fort Worth, TexasDallas-Fort Worth area. The program started with a 6 month series focused on the various facets of privil…; and oppression…;, …;, classreligionsexualityracismUnitarian...

This is what people are saying about the 2015 Unitarian Universalist Association Summer Seminary... On Twitter –...

Guest blogger Sunshine Alvarez attended the Unitarian Universalist Association Mul… Leadership School this July. Sunshine belongs to the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. -ed. On July 10th, I had the opportunity to attend a Multicultural Leadership School (MLS) in Boston, Massachusetts...

UU young adult activist suspends their body to slow arctic oil drilling "This is a personal issue for me because of my faith; I'm actually a Unitarian Universalist seminarian," begins Elizabeth Mount explaining why they're willing to Willamette River in Portland, Oregon....

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....

Kenny Wiley responds to #IfIDieInPoliceCustody offering, "We are all gifted, and we are all flawed. I can speak and write well, and I also have depression and let friends and family down all the time. I should not need to be perfect in order to matter. Sandra Bland was not perfect, and she...

AWESOME CONFERENCE SEEKS YOUTH DEAN! Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO) Intergeneratio… Spring Seminar! The Intergenerational Spring Seminar is an opportunity for youth and adults to collaboratively engage on an issue of global concern and learn how to take action. The theme of...

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....

We re-post Kenny Wiley's account of attending the recently concluded Unitarian Universalist Association 2015 Multicultural Leadership School. - ed. A Full Day The voices raised. We weren’t just singing–we were feeling. I’d never sung like this before. For once, those words — Lift every voice...

(Co-Dean, that is) http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/youth_caucus_dean_app.p… Deadline is August 5, 2015 These people......

I’ve Unitarian Universalism is a both/and faith. Both/and can be hard. It’s difficult to feel two emotions at once, to hold two positions at once, to affirm multiple realities at once. But if anyone can do it, I believe that UUs can. Friday June 26th 2015 was surely a both/and day. It was both...

This week: General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association pas… an Action of Immediate Witness in support of the Black Lives Matter movement calling for “police reform and prison abolition, which seeks to replace the current prison system with a system that is more just and...

ecortez.neavel@gmail.com@ecortez_neavelFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiReverend Susan Frederick-Gray in Phoenix and Sheriff Joe Arpaio is standing across from her. She is looking straight at him. It looks like he just can’t make eye contact with her. There is just so much power in the picture.” “It just crystallized the ability...

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....