Great news from Rev. Khlur Mukhim! May the music be a blessing. Dear friends,...

The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines's (UUCP's) Learning Center was inaugurated on December 18th, 2012. Now completed, the facility will serve as an educational center for pre-school children in a remote village in Canlaon City. Construction of the building was made possible by a...

www.uucsj.org">UU Holdeen India Program partner. Though we had read about SEWA’s work empowering some of India’s most impoverished women, nothing could have prepared us for the morning we spent with the rag pickers. We met with these workers in the place they labor each day: the municipal...

The following post was written by service-learning trip to explore justice for rural India with the UU Holdeen India Program. Of all the things I’d imagined would seem welcoming about my return trip to India, the smell of the Mumbai airport had not been one of them. As soon I stepped out of the...

Yesterday evening the UUA received news that http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57557467/philippines-typhoon-death-… Pablo had impacted the UU Church of the Philippines headquarters in Dumaguette City. News from the UU congregations throughout Negros Island is still coming in, but so far most of...

The following post was written by UU Church of Charlotte. He is currently taking part in a Vidhayak Sansad, the center of such astounding activity in this area of such astounding need and opportunity....

The following post was written by Rev. Kathleen McTigue, director of the service-learning trip to explore justice for rural India with the UU Holdeen India Program. On Tuesday we traveled from Mumbai to Usgaon, the village where partner organization Vidhayak Sansad is based and where it has...

UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ). She is currently coleading a service-learning trip to explore justice for rural India with the UU Holdeen India Program. The first of our UUCSJ journeys to India is now under way!...

On September 18, 1887 Hajjom Kissor Singh started the journey of organized Unitarianism in https://maps.google.com/maps?q=shillong&hl=en&ll=25.750425,91.5… East India. And, on that same day in 2012, 125 years later, the anniversary celebration and worship of the members of the Unitarian Union of...

On Wednesday I arrived in New Delhi to spend a few days with Derek, getting the chance to watch him 'in action' during site visits with urban partners. We began these visits with SEWA - the Self-Employed Women's Association - founded by Ela Bhatt in 1974. UUHIP has partnered with SEWA since its...

Unitarian Union of North East India (UUNEI) celebrates the 125th anniversary of its founding with a series of special events from June 2012 through February 2013....

UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) is to increase the capacity of Unitarian Universalists to catalyze justice....

On Saturday May 25th, 600 runners turned out for the Unitarian Union of North East India's (UUNEI) 4K "Quasquicentennial Green Run" in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Unitarianism's founding in the Khasi Hills. Drawing participation from all over the Khasi-Jantia Hills region of the north...

Kathy Sreedhar, a champion of social justice in India for five decades, is retiring from the Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP) at the end of June. For the last 28 years she has built the program into a major force for grassroots social change in India. She has identified...

Women and men from around Negros Island and from three continents gathered at Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines, on February 6, 2012, to discuss ways that women’s lives are transformed through livelihood opportunities. This one-day gathering was sponsored by the In the course of the...

In January 2012, six members of International Convocation of UU Women (ICUUW), visited the Unitarian churches and schools of northeast India, in a region called the Khasi Hills, one of the poorest regions of India. There we learned that these private, rural schools provide the only access to...

Among the greatest gifts of crossing religious and cultural boundaries is that we come to understand ourselves more clearly. On this trip to Japan I had the opportunity to visit briefly other religious partners: the Konko Church of Izuo (a modern Shinto movement), the Tsubaki Grand Shrine (one of...

The visual parallels between the atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima and the tsunami that hit Japan’s northeast coast a year ago are eerie. In Hiroshima we saw once more the famous photographs of Hiroshima before and after the bomb. In Kamaichi and Sendai the signs of breathtaking devastation are...

The word “Hiroshima” has become synonymous with the horrors of nuclear war. Unfortunately, we need to be horrified now and then. We need to see and feel just how terrible war is and how particularly horrifying nuclear war would be. A visit to Hiroshima’s Peace Park and the Memorial Museum both...

Kyoto, 5 a.m. March 6— I have often spoken and written about the importance of hospitality–about how hospitality is a spiritual practice. In the first two days of our visit to Japan I have felt as though I were attending a workshop in advanced hospitality. Our friends and partners from the...