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The practice of Tending Our Tradition asks us to be stewards of Unitarian Universalism by bringing forward what remains liberatory and life-giving from our past while addressing the harms that have also been part of our story.
By Erica Baron | March 15, 2024 | From Tending to Tradition -
The United Way announced a coordinated effort with the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), the Black Refugee & Immigrant Community Coalition, and the Greater Boston YMCA among other community-based organizations, to provide temporary emergency housing and support to approximately 25 families.
March 8, 2024 | From NER News -
We are thrilled to introduce Art Nava, the newest member of our team, who comes with an impressive background and a history of dedicated service to congregations. Some of you may already know Art through his extensive involvement in our Peer Facilitators program, having been a part of the program...
January 29, 2024 | From NER News -
Love is the doctrine of this church….Love is the spirit of this place….We Side with Love…
By Wren Bellavance-Grace | January 29, 2024 | From Covenanting -
For those of you not embroiled in this particular time of year known as search season, now is when many of your sibling congregations have compiled their “records” to be shared with candidating ministers. It is a busy time of collating months of conversation and inward reflection about the...
By Hilary Allen | December 14, 2023 | From Doing Our Inner Work -
We are a species wired for connection, for collaboration, for community; various fields of study have affirmed and documented this. But when did you know it? Maybe you were fortunate to grow up in a country, a culture, a church, a home where community was as central an element as water and air....
By Wren Bellavance-Grace | November 29, 2023 | From Practice Makes Possible Blog -
Julian, do you not know? Do you not know about sorrow? And Julian, do you not know? Do you not know about pain? As our November newsletter was approaching final edits, horrific news of our country’s 565th mass shooting of the calendar year broke out of the city of Lewiston, Maine. As sometimes...
By Wren Bellavance-Grace | October 31, 2023 | From Centering Gifts -
This month we are delighted to share a voice from our pews. Author Rumni Saha recently shared a version of this essay with her congregation, and sent a copy to our NER office as well. We asked her permission to share it with you. Doing so is a faithful risk by our sibling in faith, and Faithful...
By Rumni Saha | September 27, 2023 | From Tending to Tradition -
Hello! And thank you for all the ways many of you have already welcomed me to the New England Region.I grew up here, mostly in New Hampshire and Vermont. I came of age in the Milford, NH UU congregation and as a young adult attended congregations in Connecticut and western Massachusetts. Then I...
By Evin Carvill Ziemer | September 5, 2023 | From NER News -
Last year in a conversation with leaders (Google drive video) of First Parish Church of Groton, MA my colleague Meck Groot and I were introduced to their phrase “spacious grace” – an all-embracing term to describe the “breathtaking” quality of welcome, acceptance, trust, kindness and...
By Joe Sullivan | September 1, 2023 | From NER News