Reading & Learning

Part of Widening the Circle Resource Guide

Continuous Transformation

Transformational work for diversity, equity, and belonging is not a one-time event; it’s a continuous process. UU World offers a couple articles that explain this framework and provide tools for engaging with transformation.

Love at the Center

On a dark blue background, there are a series of small red circles forming a repeated circle pattern, moving toward the center of the cover. The book's title is in the center in white text, "Love at the Center: Unitarian Universalist Theologies" and "Sofia Betancourt, editor"

At the foundations of UUA covenants and Shared Values is the spiritual discipline and power of liberating love. A new anthology, Love at the Center, explores this topic and helps us understand this theological grounding.

UU Common Read

Each year, the UUA names a UU Common Read and provides curricula for congregations and communities to engage with the selected book. Recent books have included critical topics in multicultural and anti-oppressive work, including On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World and Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism.

Tending Covenant

The UU Institute invites congregational leaders to support congregations and covenantal communities in practicing faithful communication and creative conflict. Deepening covenant is critical to justice, equity, and belonging.

Anti-Racism Histories

Learn about UUA’s history with anti-racism, including the complicated Black Empowerment Controversy and our commitment to a multicultural Beloved Community – aiming to accountably dismantle racism in ourselves and our institutions.

UU Books on Race/Ethnicity

BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation

In addition to the various UU books referenced across this guide, Skinner House, the UUA’s in-house publisher, has several new and books with a focus on race/ethnicity, including these powerful offerings:

Engage Our Three Major Resource Guide Cornerstones

  • Shared Values. Ground your spirituality in our covenantal values, centered in liberating Love. These values include Interdependence, Pluralism, Justice, Transformation, Generosity, and Equity.
  • Mosaic Antiracism Hub. Engage congregational anti-racism and lifespan learning curricula, learning/practice communities, theological grounding, and resource libraries and guides.
  • Side With Love. Organize for justice through the UUA’s campaign work on democracy, reproductive and trans rights, decriminalization, and climate justice.

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