I’m writing with news – after ten years as field staff and nine as CER’s Regional Lead, I’ve decided to complete my tenure at the UUA over the course of 2025.

Your Congregational Life staff has recently returned with new skills, connections, and conversations from a gathering known as CLEAR: Congregational Life Education And Renewal.

Community Unitarian Universalist Church in Plano, Texas, created banners from the messages of love and support sent from other UUs.

The New Year can a be time to take stock of our lives and make adjustments to old habits, or set new goals in the form of New Year’s Resolutions. It’s hard enough to do this as individuals – it’s even harder to do as congregations.

Happy Holidays from the Central East Region! Your team at the UUA wish you a season of joy, peace, love and connection.

If you have seen this lovely meerkat pop up in some of our staff photos and wondered why it was there, the CER Staff has a mascot. But our mascot is more than just a symbol.

The UUA has released the full data from the 2024 UUA Certification Report, and there is a lot to learn—and to celebrate! And we have good news to report this year: across our denomination, participation in religious education programs has grown by 16%.

Over the past several weeks, the UUA has been sending emails with resources to congregations in response to the election results. We have compiled some of those resources here for you. This is by no means an exhaustive list but we hope it helps you find what you are looking for.Resources for...

An overview of a holistic model of Faith Development for all ages embedded into the community life of the congregation, with Love at the Center.

Well, we’re in the soup now. There’s nothing like a crisis to bring clarity about what is most essential. Over the last few weeks I’ve watched as my inbox overflowed with messages from our UU congregations and communities, our dedicated religious professionals, and our committed lay leaders.

What a week it’s been. I want to let you know that your team at the Central East Region is thinking of you and sending love.

These are difficult days.Where just moments ago there was hope, now there is grief. Where there was clarity, now there is confusion. Where there were small comforts, now there is hurt. In many ways, the results of this year's election feel like a shocking betrayal. In other ways, they feel...

Friends, this week is an uncertain one, and much is at stake. As we approach Election Day and beyond, how are you and your people sustaining your bodies, your spirits, your values, and your relationships to community?...

Summer Institute 2025 is please to announce that our theme speaker this year is Rev. Joanna Fontaine Crawford.

And then Rev. Dr. Hall mentions the fifth grief stage of Acceptance and writes this vignette: Acceptance – Our church is changing. The religious landscape in our country is changing. I may not like all these changes. But it is the reality. We can only choose how we respond to this new reality.

On the evening of Thursday, September 26, 2024 Hurrican Helene arrived at Florida’s Gulf Coast and carved a path of destruction throughout the Southern Region. In total, seven states and millions of people were impacted by this devastating weather event which reminds us of a number of other...

It is impossible to make a congregation 100% safe; however, there are steps that you can take to make your congregation safer while still creating a supportive space for learning, growth, and challenge as well as actively working for the inclusion and safety of all people.

We’ve rounded the corner into the season of hot, hazy days, back to school sales, and a growing curious energy: when UUs gather to greet one another, what will we be doing? Where will we turn our attention?...

As you have likely heard by now, Rev. Sunshine Wolfe has been promoted to the Regional Lead position in the Pacific Western Region....

The 2023 Berry Street Essay urges UUs to recognize and confront an imminent threat.