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My spouse and I are planning out a permaculture garden in the backyard of our new house. We don’t know much about permaculture yet, but we are learning. We are starting with the soil
By Renee Ruchotzke | July 10, 2017 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Leadership Development, Spiritual Practice -
I have not enjoyed spring this year in Washington D.C., where I live. I usually love the mild days of April, May and June in the Mid-Atlantic, where we have long stretches of blue sky days in the 70s.
By Megan Foley | June 12, 2017 | From Better TogetherTagged as: UU Beliefs, UU Theology -
From its Galveston, Texas roots, the observance of Juneteenth as the African American Emancipation Day began in 1865 and has triggered a series of far-reaching events that continue to reverberate over the decades—through the present, to the future.
By Hope Johnson | June 5, 2017 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Racial Justice -
Sometimes you sit across from people you know well, even people you love, and you just cannot believe how far apart from them you feel.
By Megan Foley | April 10, 2017 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Racial Justice, Social Justice -
Many churches celebrate important anniversaries, but it’s rare that congregational historians take a wider view. But when Bill Parke, the Church Historian of the UU Church of Buffalo noted this anniversary, he researched the topic and came up with this lovely display and story….
January 23, 2017 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Mission/Vision/Planning, UU History -
At the beginning of November, Jo VonRue (our Ministerial Intern here in Binghamton) and I traveled up to the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota to support the Sioux tribe. They are fighting to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipe Line on sacred lands and which threatens their water supply….
By Douglas Taylor | December 19, 2016 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Social Justice -
by Jo VonRue…
By Jo VonRue | December 12, 2016 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Social Justice -
The Advent Season offers each of us an opportunity to recognize that it is not only a season of waiting, but also a season of preparation. It’s a Both/And.
By Hope Johnson | December 5, 2016 | From Better TogetherTagged as: UU Beliefs -
The New River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, in Beckley, WV has coordinated two interfaith demonstrations. The theme was Standing On the Side of Love. They joined the UU Congregation of Charleston for a third demonstration on the same topic….
November 21, 2016 | From Better TogetherTagged as: Social Justice -
Rev. Sandra Fees, Minister for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berks County in Reading, Pennsylvania was selected to be the 2016 Poet Laurate for Berks County PA.
By Sandra Fees | October 17, 2016 | From Better Together