Blue Boat of Youth and Young Adult Ministries is doing something special to celebrate the unusual confluence of …; and Hanukkahcloud-spaceGregorian calendar while Hanukkah follows the lunisolarHebrew calendar. But, hey – http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/2343364/jewish/……

“We’ve got to realize what we’re doing here with our theology…” Over the weekend Reverend Frank Schaefer spoke about his suspension and impending defrocking by the United Methodist Church. During a radio interview he explained that understanding the pain caused by the church’s position that…

From UU World we re-post an excerpt of Doug Muder’s thoughts on attending a Sunday Assembly that in some ways resembles Unitarian Universalism and in other ways does not. – Ed. Live better, help often, wonder more Londonhttp://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/22/is-atheism-a-religion/a……

Connect with campus ministry leaders Sunday December 1, 2013. http://fuze.me/22249975https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wn-bRTHddp_J……; to check out the agenda, add your questions, and return later to read the notes! Did you miss last month’s call on getting in touch with…

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Find out in 14 Questions. PEW Research Center created a quiz to answer the burning question “Am I a Millennial?” See how your point-of-view aligns with that of the Millennial Generation….

Determined Young Adults are frequently an underused, ore even unused resource to spark growth. We re-post this article from Duke University’s Faith and Leadership blog by Investing young adults with leadership would be a “win-win,” says a 20-something Catholic writer. It would evangelize and…

Young Adult and Multigenerational Ministry Director Kimberly Paquette provides us the opportunity to discern the difference between opposing war and accepting those who serve in the military with open hearts and minds. Re-posted from UU World On-line. – Ed. The only time I was called by my first…

Too Many Run-On Sentences Huffington Post. Profiling 32 people serving life sentences and describing the crimes for which they received a life, or double-life, sentence without possibility of parole. Aiken Standard. Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights Committee…

National Congregations Study (also conducted in 1998 and 2007). From the report, the joint meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association revealed that churches of all types are increasingly diverse and more welcoming than before. The National…