(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…

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…

This statement was passed on June 25, 2010 by the delegates to the 2010 General Assembly in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Unitarian Universalist theologians Dr. Sharon Welch, Dr. Dan McKanon, and Rev. Dr. Paul Rasor were consultants in the crafting of the statement, and all three spoke in support of it…

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

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……

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…

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…

Frances Dana Barker Gage (1808-1884) There came a time when Universalists refused to go with me as an abolitionist, an advocate for the rights of women, for earnest temperance pleaders… Then it came to me that Christ’s death as an atonement for sinners was not truth, but he had died for what he…

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….

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.

You will present a mock debate between two great Unitarians of the 19th century, Theodore Parker and Ezra Stiles Gannett. Both men were esteemed preachers who spoke eloquently and passionately for their cause. Review their arguments for and against the Fugitive Slave Law, and dive in!…