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  • Purple graphic with text: Webinar - Defending Faithful Sanctuary and Hospitality
    Learn about the UUA's partnership with the multifaith coalition that is challenging the federal administration's rollback of the sensitive locations policy, a move that endangers religious freedom and the sanctity of our sacred spaces. 
    Webinar | By Cathy Rion Starr, Carey McDonald | February 21, 2025 | From Resilience Hub
    Tagged as: Immigration, Refugees, Social Justice
  • Sign taped to UUA headquarters with the words: Private Space - access limited to religious purposes of the Unitarian Universalist Association
    This practical guidance for interactions with U.S. Immigration and Customs includes legal rights, sample signage, and preparation strategies.
    Leader Resource | February 10, 2025 | From Resilience Hub
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Immigration, Refugees, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • Black person stands in foreground at a Black Lives Matter rally speaking into a megaphone
    Effective justice action requires risk, courage and discernment. Here are tips and tools for resilient and sustained activism.
    Training | By Elizabeth Nguyen | February 5, 2025 | For Adults | From Resilience Hub
    Tagged as: Congregational Action, Discernment, Social Justice
  • headshot of Elaine Strawn.
    As the proverb goes, we are surely blessed by living in interesting times! But a blessing? This sermon explores what blessings are before us.
    Sermon | February 1, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Darrick Jackson is smiling, wearing a red shirt and glasses
    Our imagination is a powerful tool. It can drive our creativity, fuel our hope, and deepen our faith. What if we engaged imagination as a spiritual practice?
    Sermon | By Darrick Jackson | February 1, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Image of a computer screen with five cartoon people waving and a banner that says "welcome" over the top.
    Starr King UU Church shares their Zoom Greeter Instructions for you to adapt and use in your own congregation.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 27, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility, Hospitality
  • Icon for hearing disability
    Reflections and tips on how to help make the Zoom experience better for both deaf and hard of hearing participants.
    Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Sarah Byrne | January 27, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • Graphic with icons of people, computer, tablet and phone over a double-circle background
    The Starr King UU Church shares tips, tools, and other resources for a Zoom Inclusion Ministry.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 27, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • A binder marked board policies with a UUA chalice
    Starr King UU Church shares their Zoom Inclusion Policy as an example for other churches to adapt.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Bylaws & Policies, Disability & Accessibility
  • An image of a live electrical circuit with two interconnected transistors that look like brains.
    Micro-signals – Key Concepts Micro-signals are the little messages we send and receive that are subtle, contradictory, or unconscious. They’re the unstated messages you get when you “read between the lines.” They can be intentional or unintentional, conscious or unconscious, positive or...
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • A group of people on a chancel with a large screen behind them showing Zoom participants
    In this section of the Guidebook your team is invited to do a deeper dive into the ministry of inclusion as we share our story at Starr King UU Church, including some theological reflection, frameworks, and tips.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • check boxes being checked off by red pencil
    What does Zoom Inclusion look like and how does it impact the community? You can use this checklist and survey for an initial evaluation or assessment, then as a checklist or evaluation tool about how your inclusion ministry is serving your community.
    Book, Congregational Story | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • Graphic showing a teeter-totter with a group of humans outweighing a few people on computer screens.
    Multiplatform Ministry strengthens our communities, helps attract and retain members, and provides valuable inclusion lessons applicable to other inclusion efforts.
    Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie | January 23, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • his is a sketch of our rectangular physical sanctuary with rows of congregants in chairs, and windows along the left wall. The front of the sanctuary is on the right. The worship leader stands at a podium with the chalice on the left and a piano on the right. The sound booth is in the back right corner of the room.
    The Starr King UU Church tech team shares how they arrange their space and set up their technology with an emphasis on the value of inclusion.
    Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 21, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • a female appearing human washing dishes in a church kitchen.
    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.
    Feature | By Renee Ruchotzke | January 13, 2025 | From Better Together
    Tagged as: Building Community, Communication, Congregational Polity, Shared Ministry Teams
  • A black and white image of two video screens -- one with people in chairs in a church sanctuary and the other with people in Zoom participant windows -- with cartoon arms enabling the screens to hug one another.
    Multiplatform worship is the way of the future! Here are ideas on how to strengthen connection and community with improved multiplatform inclusion.
    Book, Congregational Story, Leader Resource | By Ben Ogilvie, Starr King UU Church, Hayward, CA | January 9, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Building Community, Disability & Accessibility
  • Two teal brushstroke waves create a spiral.
    What is sexual abuse within the ministerial relationship? This article was originally published on the Faith Trust Institute by the Rev. Dr. Marie Fortune.
    Leader Resource | January 7, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Activism, Professional Misconduct
  • Nancy smiles softly with her head tilted, wearing glasses, a pink blouse with puffed sleeves and her brown hair tucked behind her left ear.
    Working from a little-understood story in the Gospel of John commonly called "the woman at the well," this sermon explores what it might mean for the wisest of teachers to sit and learn from exactly the person they were meant to ignore or discount entirely.
    Sermon | January 7, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Worship
  • An outline of a church building in blue ink withe the UUA chalice logo at the center with a small house outlined next to it in maroon with a smaller UUA chalice logo at its center.
    Curious about how a congregational partnership might work for you? These stories about partnerships among UU congregations may inspire you!
    Webinar | By Darcey Elizabeth Hegvik Laine, Douglas Taylor | January 7, 2025 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Congregations in Partnership
  • A light skinned person with long dark hair holds one hand against their forehead and another hand outstretched signaling "stop". There are light blue and oranges splashes of color like paint against an otherwise dark background. The words "stress", "emotional strain", "tense" and "depression" are written in these splashes with fragments of definitions.
    The oldest Millennials are in our forties now. Lots of researchers have looked at the wealth of Millennials compared to Baby Boomers as they turned 40....
    By Erica Baron | January 6, 2025 | From RE-sources
    Tagged as: Families & Faith Development, Parenting