Maybe you’ve heard the inspirational story about the starfish. It’s often told as a celebration of a young child’s hope triumphing over a curmudgeonly elder’s resignation to the inevitability of encroaching doom. But taking those signifiers out of the story, and it goes something like this:...

Ministerial start ups are typically offered in the first year of a new minister’s ministry or for the start of a new staff member like DREs. The workshop may involve an array of lay leaders & congregants, including past & present members of the Board, Committee on Ministry, search committee, others.

Links to EqUUal Access resources to help make your congregation accessible to people with disabilities.

Congregational traditions, governance structures, needs, and resources vary greatly among the approximately 1,100 UUA congregations. The model documents published here are intended to assist leaders in drafting agreements that meet the needs of congregations and their employees.

There are lots of things in congregational life that can cause big feelings. In a recent webinar, we asked participants to name some of these things, and they did!...

The Compensation and Staffing Survey results.

A guide for group conversations around practices that help congregations live into their commitments to dismantling systems of oppression in themselves and their communities.

Are you a small congregation looking for fresh ideas? Here are presentations and other resources from several online UUA conferences.

5 Questions You Should Always Ask Veterans, 1 Question You Should Never Ask Veterans, and 15 Facts that promote greater understanding of our Veterans.

Grief [is] not only about coping, but also about hope, and the power of hope to transform our grief and loss and love into something that can help us move into a future made different by that loss.

How do we manage the tension between hope and realism when it comes to the future of our faith?

This video presents a general understanding of the problem of suicide, in particular how to identify a veteran who may be at risk and what to do to help.

Honoring a retired minister or religious educator with emerit/a/us status requires a congregational vote.

The title Minister Emeritus / Emerita is granted to honor a minister's long and meritorious service to a particular congregation.

We live in such a "more is better" culture. Perhaps this is a time to be countercultural - to assess what's most important, and to determine what is in a congregation's capacity to do well with the resources (including human resources) they have.

Between 2022 and the 2023, the The Unitarian Universalist Association and Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association presented a series of events and learning on neurodivergence for religious professionals; this series drew on the experiences of neurodivergent folx and fostered conversation...

While I was growing up, a strange thing happened. When I was very young, I naturally explored all sorts of interests, from ancient history to art to writing poetry. I’m grateful that I came up through a well-funded school district with robust extracurricular programs that enabled me to play...

How do we manage the tension between hope and realism when it comes to the future of our faith?

American society has acculturated us to ideas about how our bodies should look and function.

The wheel of life turns. Summer passes and autumn beckons. This is true within and without. In the autumn of the year and my life I am uncovering new ...