By Meg Barnhouse. Used with permission. I dragged myself to the early morning Theme Talk, even though it was the last day of a week at church camp and I was tired from staying up late singing with friends and dancing my fool head off. A panel of old-timers was talking about the early days of...

All people have the right to worship and believe what they choose. People have the right to bear arms. Church and state should always be separate. Social clubs (like the Boy Scouts of America) have the right to limit their memberships however they see fit....

Natural Rights: Natural rights are associated with philosophy and religion. The idea behind natural rights is that our humanity (our unique nature) imbues us with certain inherent rights, including the right to life. Such rights are commonly attributed to scriptural or religious teachings, the...

Part I John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a 19th-century British politician and political philosopher. Born and raised in London, Mill had a brilliant mind: He learned Greek starting at the age of three, and Latin and algebra when he was eight. He went on to serve the University of St. Andrews as...

Remarks by Ralph Waldo Emerson, delivered before the graduating class of Harvard's Divinity School on July 15, 1838. The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to...

Ralph Waldo Emerson advocated direct experience of religious sentiment, unmediated by clergy, or by tradition or ritual. In describing himself as a "Transcendentalist," Emerson lifted up his belief that it was possible for people to have a direct, transcendent experience of reality, a personal...

Environment Canada's Freshwater Website. Reproduced with the permission of the Department, 2009.

Tomorrow the family will go to the well. Will water be there? x x x Tomorrow is the family reunion. It better not rain. x x x The well was almost dry last week. And still it has not rained. x x x We will play games and maybe swim. And it better not rain. x x x Has it rained at the well? Or is it...

Toilet Tax Please pay what you can before entering the bathroom. This action is to raise awareness about the lack of sanitation and clean water in much of the world and money to help solve the problem....

There's a toilet at the top of the page, surrounded by expanding circles associated with scores. How to play: From outside the board try to flick your turdlywink into the latrine. If you miss you'll make a mess. The circle closest to the toilet is labelled 'WaterAid's vision: 100% sanitation...

These are some responses to the Common Vision Planning Committee survey as reported to the UUA Board of Trustees, January 1989. I try to be to be tolerant of it even though I’m not very comfortable about it. I try to be welcoming. I guess you could say my feelings and thoughts are inconsistent.

This is a portion of a 1972 curriculum, which consisted of filmstrips and LP records. This resource includes an audio file and a video file. There are beeps in the audio file indicating when to advance from image to image just as there were in the original. Filmstrip Part 1 (PPT) Filmstrip Part 2...

1969 Stonewall riots occur in New York. 1970 LGBT rights marches held in New York and Los Angeles to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots. 1972 East Lansing, Michigan and Ann Arbor, Michigan and San Francisco, California pass the first ordinances offering homosexuals some...

Video Segment Davies Memorial Church, Camp Springs, Maryland From Breakthrough Congregations 2007, produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association. Used with permission.

In 1950, Harold Levering, a California assemblyman from Bel Air, proposed an amendment to the state constitution that would require all religious institutions to sign a loyalty oath or lose their tax-exempt status (see Handout 2, The California Loyalty Oath for exact wording). The demand for a...

Edited excerpt from a letter by the Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of the United Methodist Church, who testified before the committee on July 21, 1953. My dear, dear friends, ... I thought you might be interested in just what happened at the hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities......

(Humankind) ...has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall... (and) ...will end by destroying the earth. — Albert Schweitzer __________________________________________________________ We need to develop a sense of gratitude so deep that we are willing to consider our every action—large or...

From an article, "Prophetic Nonviolence," by Paul Rasor, which appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of UU World. Used with the author's permission. I believe we can move beyond this old divide by adopting an integrated model I call prophetic nonviolence....