Minaa B. is a licensed social worker, mental health educator, and author of Owning Our Struggles. She also founded a mental health consulting practice where she collaborates with organizations to help them develop psychological safety. Additionally, Minaa runs an advice column called Free Therapy...

The Rev. Harold Babcock is the minister of the First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American poet, teacher, and activist of Apache and Chicano descent, and holds a number of awards for his easily accessible writing style and activism. He is the author of A Place to Stand, which was developed into a documentary film about his life, airing on PBS.

David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist based in Oakland and Berkeley, California. He is an associate editor at Pacific News Service, and writes for TruthOut, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Progressive, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications....

Jenn Bailey is an author, editor, blue-ribbon pie baker, and eager traveler. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Born and raised in Rhode Island, she now calls Leawood, Kansas, home. She lives there with her husband, three sons, and numerous cats and dogs.

Sarah Bakewell had a wandering childhood, growing up on the “hippie trail” through Asia and in Australia. She studied philosophy at the University of Essex and worked for many years as a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library, London, before becoming a fulltime writer. Her books...

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America’s foremost writers. His writing explores palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A...

Lewis V. Baldwin is professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University and an ordained Baptist minister. An expert on black-church traditions, he is author of The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr.; There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin...

Carlos A. Ball is Distinguished Professor of Law and the Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar at Rutgers University. An expert on LGBTQ rights, he is the author of several books, including The First Amendment and LGBT Equality and From the Closet to the Courtroom....

Emily Paige Ballou is an old Millennial from the Midwest who currently lives and works in NYC, where she primarily stage manages off-Broadway new plays and new musicals, including works such as the Hello Girls with Prospect Theater Company, Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat at the Adirondack Theatre...

Rabbi Rachel Barenblat's blog is Velveteen Rabbi.

Meg Barnhouse is a minister serving the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg, South Carolina, author of The Rock of Ages at the Taj Mahal and co-author of The Best of Radio Free Bubba. She is a commentator for North Carolina Public Radio and can occasionally be heard on NPR’s “Weekend...

Taylor Barron graduated with a bachelor’s of fine art in digital art and animation from DigiPen Institute of Technology. Her focus is in illustration, murals, character design, background painting, and concept art.

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,...

Molly Phinney Baskette is an author, progressive Christian pastor, mama, cancer survivor, and doomsday Pollyanna. She lives in Alameda, California, with her husband and two children. You may spot her in the beautiful Bay Area bad-dance-jogging, or marching in the streets, depending on the day.

Jamila Batchelder (she/her) was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area by a a Jewish-raised Buddhist mother and and a Baptist-raised Muslim father. She knew she had found her religious home when she discovered Unitarian Universalism, and has been a UU for more than two decades. She now has...

Summer Batte has worked as a writer and editor for more than 16 years. For the past four years, much of her work has been focused on research-based advice stories. She came to appreciate her undergraduate studies in psychology at Stanford University more than ever when she experienced peripartum...

Marion Dane Bauer is an award-winning author of more than one hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Book On My Honor. Formerly on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, she now writes full-time. Marion Dane Bauer...

Dr. Traci Baxley is a professor, consultant, parenting coach, speaker, mother to five bi-racial children, and the creator of Social Justice Parenting....

Pamela Baxter is the director of religious education at the Unitarian Fellowship of West Chester, in West Chester, Pennsylvania.