Portland, OR 2015
General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Attendees worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process. The theme for GA 2015 in Portland, OR (June 24-28) was "Building a New Way."
Video, Scripts, and Workshop Materials
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For reference, you may still download the GA 2015 Program (PDF, 156 pages).
Ware Lecture
Public Witness
- Public Witness
Video and Script
Worship & Music
- Thursday Morning Devotional
Video and Script - Service of the Living Tradition
Video and Script - Soul-FULL Hospitality: Friday Worship
Video and Script - Synergy Bridging Worship
Video and Script - Saturday Morning Devotional
Video and Script - Evening Sing
Video and Script - Re-Storying Hope: Sunday Morning Worship
Video and Script - Closing Celebration: "On Our Way!"
Video and Script
Association Business & Social Witness
Annual reports, general session agendas, and social justice statements are published on GA 2015 Business & Social Witness.
- Opening Celebration, General Session I
Video and Script - General Session II
Video and Script - General Session III
Video and Script - General Session IV
Video and Script - General Session V
Video and Script - General Session VI
Video and Script
Workshops
Find more information in the GA 2015 Program (PDF, 156 pages).
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#UUsGetSocial
- #UUsGetSocial: Creating Content That's Seen, Liked, and Shared (MP3)
Video and Slides - #UUsGetSocial: Make Your Website Awesome and Make It Yours (MP3)
Video and Slides
Accessibility
- Event #212: A New Way to Radical Inclusivity (MP3)
- Event #316: Accessibility & Inclusion Ministry: The AIM Program Experience (MP3)
- Event #369: Our Whole Lives and Autism: Building a Better Fit (MP3)
Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression
- Partnering to End the New Jim Crow (MP3)
Audio Recording and Handouts - Event #213: A Way out of No Way (MP3)
- Event #228: Be The Change: Youth Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism (MP3)
- Event #235: Remixing Unitarian Universalism: How to Create an Energy Center? (MP3)
- Event #283: The Fires of Ferguson Still Burn Within Our Hearts (MP3)
- Event #313: CommUUnity Activism in a #BlackLivesMatter World (MP3)
- Event #355: Showing Up: UUs Serving Ferguson (MP3)
- Event #429: Developing Spiritual Leadership and Culture for Collective Liberation (MP3)
- Event #439: The Road to Selma: The Living Legacy Pilgrimage, Selma & Bringing It Home (MP3)
Business
- Addressing Climate Change Through UUA Investments (MP3)
Audio Recording and Slides - Event #204: Business Mini-Assembly I: Commission on Appraisal (Video)
- Event #268: Business Mini-Assembly II: Financial Secretary & Campaign Finance (Video) (MP3)
- Event #307: Create and Build New UUA Leadership (MP3)
- Event #308: Budget Hearing (Video) (MP3)
- Event #348: Workshop on Re-Imagining Governance (Video) (MP3)
- Event #353: Business Mini-Assembly IV: Regions in the Bylaws (Video) (MP3)
- Event #406: Candidates Forum (Video) (MP3)
Commission on Social Witness
Commit2Respond
- Collaborate Like Never Before (MP3)
Audio Recording and Slides - Event #242: SHIFT to a Low Carbon Future (MP3)
- Event #252: Building a New Community—Race, Class and Climate (MP3)
- Event #280: Growing Young Adult Leadership for Climate Justice (Video) (MP3)
- Event #361: Become a Green Sanctuary (MP3)
- Event #441: ADVANCE the Rights of Climate-Affected Communities (MP3)
Climate Justice
- Building Powerful Collaboration with Native Nations for Climate Justice
Handouts - Partnering with Original Nations & Peoples: Protect Cultures & the Earth
Handout - Event #217: Divesting from Fossil Fuels: Working with Your Investment Committee (MP3)
- Event #264: Moving From Capitalism Towards an Ecological Economy (MP3)
- Event #282: Climate Change and Emergency Services (MP3)
- Event #310: Climate Change Impacts on Human Rights: International Success Stories
- Event #324: Transformation without Apocalypse: A Moral Response to Climate Change (MP3)
- Event #331: Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy, a Living Earth (MP3)
- Event #346: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Human Rights and Climate Change (MP3)
- Event #410: Partnering with Original Nations & Peoples: Protect Cultures & the Earth (MP3)
- Event #420: United for Climate Justice: A Young Adult Led Intergenerational Worship (MP3)
- Event #433: Building Powerful Collaboration with Native Nations for Climate Justice (MP3)
Congregational Polity
- Reimagining Congregational Polity for a Beyond-Congregation Age (MP3)
Video - Event #415: Congregational Polity and the Myth of Congregational Autonomy (Video) (MP3)
Commission on Social Witness
- Event #226: Mini-Assembly on Proposed Statement of Conscience: Reproductive Justice (Video)
- Event #271: Social Witness Sermon Contest Award (MP3)
- Event #312: Reproductive Justice: Implementing a Statement of Conscience (MP3)
Economic Justice and Class
- Expanding the Welcome Table: UUs Get Real about Class
Audio Recording and Slides - Class Conscious: Class and Classism in UU Life: a Curriculum Overview
Outline and Script - Event #250: Working for Fair Wages: Story of Two Communities (MP3)
- Event #362: Class Diversity: Exploring Our Past, Building Our theologies (Video) (MP3)
- Event #440: Passing 28th Amendment: Corporations Aren't Persons, Money Isn't Speech (MP3)
Ethical Eating
- Event #277: Exploring Food Justice: Grappling with Banana Cream Pie (MP3)
- Event #364: Solidarity Across the Food Chain (MP3)
Innovation and Growth
- Loss and Hope: Urban Ministry in the Rustbelt (MP3)
Video - Creating A Professional Membership Ministry (MP3)
Video and Slides - Event #232: UU Models of Multi-Site Ministries (MP3)
- Event #244: Developing Alternative Brands to Engage Newcomers (MP3)
- Event #245: GA Talks: Multigenerational Worship and Community Minisitry (Video) (MP3)
- Event #256: Faith in the Margins: First Century Guide for the 21st (MP3)
- Event #278: Let Ours Be No Silent Witness (MP3)
- Event #281: Explore the Full Spectrum: deepen faith relationships in our communities (MP3)
- Event #326: Where Have You Been All My Life? Outreach and UUism (MP3)
- Event #334: From iChurch to Beloved Communities (Video)
- Event #341: Loving The Hell Out Of This World, Part Two: That's Church??? (MP3)
- Event #351: GA Talks: Identity and Political Activism (MP3)
- Event #358: Bringing Our Principles to Life (MP3)
- Event #366: Serving the Nonreligious: A Community-focused Congregation (MP3)
- Event #442: GA Talks: Visions of Community (MP3)
International
- Climate Change Impacts on Human Rights: International Success Stories (MP3)
Audio Recording and Handouts - Event #211: Kujenga Madaraga: Bridging Cultures through International UU Coalition (MP3)
- Event #265: Creating New Ways of Reflection and Learning About Israel/Palestine (MP3)
- Event #344: International Worship: Living Bridges for Worldwide Religious Community (MP3)
- Event #359: The Power of Accompaniment (MP3)
- Event #370: Finding Ourselves in the International UU Story (MP3)
Justice in Action
- Think, Feel, Act: Challenging Escalating Inequality
Audio Recording, Introduction, and Slides - Talk the Walk: Speaking Justice in the Language of Our Faith (MP3)
- Event #208: When Building A New Way Goes Awry (MP3)
- Event #230: Connecting with Public Policy Advocacy and Witness in Your State (MP3)
- Event #236: Sanctuary is More Than a Building (MP3)
- Event #253: Loss & Hope: Urban Ministry in the Rustbelt (MP3)
- Event #259: Reclaiming Prophetic Witness: A Conversation (MP3)
- Event #262: Service Learning Through a Justice Frame: UU College of Social Justice (MP3)
- Event #272: Changing the Conversation From Gun Control to Public Health Issue (MP3)
- Event #338: Spiritual and Faith Resources for Sustaining the Justice Journey (MP3)
- Event #354: Faith Formation: UU Wellspring, Strategic Planning & Social Justice
- Event #349: Detroit-the New Selma: Inequality, Our Water and Our Human Rights (MP3)
- Event #423: A Better Way to Volunteer for Justice (MP3)
- Event #436: Beacons of Love: Inspire and Fund UU Changemakers (MP3)
Leadership and Professional Development
- Creating Leadership Opportunities for Growth in a Diverse World (MP3)
Video - Passing the Baton: Transitions and Continuity in Leadership (MP3)
Video and Slides - Event #205: Habits of Humility: Congregational Teams as Learning Communities (MP3)
- Event #227: Leaderly Leadership = Accountable Leadership (MP3)
- Event #337: Equipping Staff in New Ways for New Times (MP3)
Mosaic Makers
- Event #214: Why Do We UUs Cross the Road? (MP3)
- Event #260: Stretching Into New Understandings of "Community" (MP3)
- Event #274: Daring to "Bring" Multiculturalism into Worship (MP3)
Multicultural
- Event #321: Multicultural Journey with One Human Family Choir (MP3)
- Event #408: Stories of Unitarian Universalists of Color (MP3)
Multigenerational
- It’s Not Easy Being UU: Let’s Get Real About Religious Bullying (MP3)
Audio Recording and Handouts - Event #206: Multi-Generational Story Slam: A New Way to Share Cultural Connections (MP3)
- Event #248: Choosing, Telling, and Bringing to Life Stories in Worship (Video) (MP3)
- Event #315: What Shapes Us? A Multigenerational Workshop (MP3)
- Event #411: Money, Money, Money! A Multigenerational Workshop (MP3)
- Event #427: Be a Hummingbird: A Multigenerational Workshop on Trees (MP3)
Music
Pastoral Care/Right Relationship
- Event #258: A New Approach to Recovery Ministry
Handouts - Event #234: Empathy and Connection through Compassionate Communication (MP3)
- Event #239: The Conversation Project: A workshop on talking about life's end (MP3)
- Event #254: Finding Our Way Back to Right Relationships
- Event #319: Congregational Conflict Through a UU Buddhist Lens (MP3)
- Event #363: Shining A Light: Sharing Recovery Narratives (MP3)
- Event #414: Restorative Practices: Tools for Healing (MP3)
- Event #416: Building Capacity for Multigenerational Pastoral Care (MP3)
- Event #428: Congregational Responsiveness to Domestic Violence (MP3)
Religious Education
- Adult Sunday School: Faith Development for Today’s UUs (MP3)
Video and Slides - Event #257: Sophia Fahs Lecture Series Presents Susan Katz Miller (MP3)
- Event #339: Incubating Seeds of Promise Into Possibilities (MP3)
- Event #435: Teaching Your Heart: Liturgical Pedagogy for Challenging Times (MP3)
Religious Professionals
- Event #207: New Ways Forward in Ministerial Credentialing (MP3)
- Event #229: Military Ministry: Serving Wholeness in Congregations and Beyond (MP3)
- Event #249: Emerging Ministries: people, purpose, partners (MP3)
- Event #269: Moving from Clergy-centric to Collaborative Ministry (MP3)
- Event #279: Keeping the Connection (MP3)
- Event #327: Navigating Ministerial Transitions (MP3)
- Event #335: Are you Considering the Ministry? (MP3)
- Event #345: Making Space for Entrepreneurial Ministry, Inside and Around the Parish (MP3)
- Event #365: Leadership, Gender, and Power in Emerging Ministries (MP3)
- Event #367: Designing New Ministries (MP3)
- Event #418: New Ways of Evaluation of Ministers and Ministries (MP3)
- Event #438: The Many Faces of Community Ministry (MP3)
Sexuality and Gender
- Are All Welcome Here? Congregational Engagement with Gender Identity (MP3)
Audio Recording and Handouts - Event #221: Clergy Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence (MP3)
- Event #270: Sexually Safer Congregations: Building A New Commitment (MP3)
- Event #325: Building Restorative Justice in Cases of Clergy Sexual Misconduct (MP3)
- Event #350: We are BRAVE: Building Reproductive Autonomy & Voices for Equity (MP3)
- Event #419: Bold Spiritedness: A New Prophetic Sisterhood (MP3)
- Event #421: Our Whole Lives: Finding Solutions for Diverse Participants (MP3)
Stewardship and Socially Responsible Investing
- Event #218: Funding Your Dreams (MP3)
- Event #220: Creating Our Legacy, Building our Future: Planned Giving Made Easy (MP3)
- Event #247: FAITHIFY: Crowdfunding Builds a New Way (MP3)
- Event #342: From Transaction to Transformation: Building a New, More Generous Way (MP3)
- Event #356: Using Investment for Social Change (MP3)
- Event #437: E-Giving: Contributions for the 21st Century (Video)
Storytelling
- Event #231: Rethinking We: A UU Storytelling Jam (MP3)
Theology and Spiritual Development
- Event #215: When Our Hearts are Our Guides: Building Contemplative UU Practices (MP3)
- Event #238: Everything Old is New Again: UU Multireligious Reality (MP3)
- Event #255: Seminary Isn't Just for Ministers Anymore (MP3)
- Event #275: The Lovers of Love: Unitarian Universalism and Sufism (MP3)
- Event #343: A Spiritual Practice of Writing that Opens Doors (MP3)
Worship
- Event #233: Summer Solstice Celebration by CUUPS (MP3)
- Event #273: Lament: Healing Rituals of Sorrow and Regret (MP3)
- Event #276: GA Communion Service: Celebrating the Missional Way of Jesus Hospitality (MP3)
- Event #332: Exorcising Worship: Co-Creating Intellectually Honest Services (MP3)
- Event #371: Shabbat Service (MP3)
- Event #407: CLF Worship: Generating Courage to Imagine and Act (MP3)
- Event #434: Celebrating 50 Years of Choice and Justice (MP3)
Youth and Young Adults
- Event #209: Stories from the Spotlight: many paths to young adult ministry (MP3)
- Event #267: Bridging: a moment, a process, a lifelong commitment (MP3)
- Event #320: If I Had a Hammer: Best Practices in Youth Service-Learning Trips (MP3)
- Event #431: You Are Home: Supporting UU Youth/ Young Adults of Color (MP3)
UU World Coverage
UU World provided timely reports and articles on their GA Blog, illustrated by some striking selections from their Photostream on Flickr. UU World on Twitter provided up-to-the-minute news during major GA events.