Leadership Resource Library

UU religious educator Rayla Mattson, a black mother of three, turns her UU faith and full heart toward her children, how to raise them and to be with them in pandemic, societal trauma around race, and, perhaps, hope.

This page provides highlights from - and contains links to - a comprehensive memo that provides recommendations for staffing and finances during longer-term virtual operations due to the pandemic.

Here are some particular areas to pay attention to during online programming for the safety of children and youth.

In April of this year, in Washington DC, my Aunt Mae learns that she has to fight an aggressive cancer that is overtaking her blood system. She is shipped to a low-standard hospital, rather than to the better hospital closer to her home. Her daughters, all essential health care...

Retaining your staff and supporting them well during the pandemic will help you expand your capacity for ministry and offer self-care and relief for staff. In addition, it is a way of demonstrating our UU faith, grounded in relationship and interdependence.

Before the pandemic began, the Oberlin, OH UU Fellowship and the Olmsted, OH UU Congregation collaborated on a monthly book group, reading fiction and nonfiction, religious, spiritual, secular, whatever called to our hearts and minds. Some of it was kind of heavy (e.g., The...

Melanie Davis recommends postponing Our Whole Lives programming be postponed until it can be done in person.

But what if you’re called on to stage a full congregational meeting, with formal debate on motions followed by auditable voting? Here's a robust sample procedure manual!

When his brother died of COVID-19, Mark Hicks helped to plan a meaningful memorial for his family. This is his story.

Companioning one another spiritually is one of the most important ministries of a faith community. This two-part training has been created for non-ordained congregational leaders.

Moving meaningful small group interactions such as covenant groups or chalice circles, to an online format will require intentionality. Here are some practices to get you started.

Have you ever wondered why people sometimes act out of character during times of stress? Here's a fun way of understanding how the Frontal Cortex and Amygdala work together.

This gallery of web-optimized chalice art and is available for informal use.

Looking for new music for your worship service that you can also use online? Check out this resource!

A few tips and tricks for managing your Zoom Account

Explore both practices of how to care for one another in times of crisis and challenge, but also how the care itself must change because of these times. For Religious Professionals, Lay-Leaders, and Congregation Members who are involved in the congregation’s ministries of caring.

The goal of the Unitarian Universalist (UU) brand identity is to create a shared way for Unitarian Universalists to effectively communicate who we are, what we do, and why it matters. There is power in numbers. The more UU congregations, groups and individuals who use the brand...

Our covenants and professional guidelines give us standards, and sometimes those are not enough when we are in pain. This Traffic Light metaphor is just one tool among many to start a conversation about healthy and problematic professional ministry.

Anxiety makes us fearful and fear brings on a sense of scarcity. How do we cope with the thorny aspects of stewardship in high anxiety times? We look for the abundance. And it is there.

I’ve been talking with some of you who are parenting children and teens with special needs at home during this pandemic. I’m hearing that the standard parenting advice out there doesn’t feel relevant and even feels shaming and harmful.