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 the UUA conference in March of 2022.

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

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.

The UUA and the UUMA jointly present a series on neurodivergence for religious professionals, drawing on the experience of neurodivergent folx to foster a conversation on how we might transform our communities to be fully inclusive.

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...

Online moments of radical inclusion, connection, and creativity shared as a litany.

As religious leaders, part of our work is to help our communities hold the tensions between different needs in the congregation, especially around worship.

As congregations return to in-person ministry there are creative ways to honor religious professionals' need to reduce their own risk. Such approaches avoid forcing religious professionals to serve in person when doing so would put their health or their household's health at significant risk.

A combination of strategies can offer layers of precaution that increase safety and inclusion for all members of a community.

A letter explaining the UUA's shift toward presenting COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies rather than specific metric-based guidance.

What is a covenant? For most of my time as a leader in Unitarian Universalism, I have understood covenant to be the words we use to describe the agreements we make to each other. What I have learned over time is that the words are more like a map. They help us understand the covenant....

​​​​​​​Because our UU faith is grounded in values that call us to care about one another, we want to consider the vulnerable among us when making decisions.