Dottie Doyle, who today is an active member of the Uniarian Universalists of Clearwater, FL, became a political activist in the pro-choice movement of the early 1970’s through a back door. Doyle was a young mother with two children and a husband who worked for the (Catholic) Diocesan Bureau of…

Rev. William G. Sinkford, who traveled to Washington, DC, for events keyed to the inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th President of the U.S., reflected on the dramatic shift he has observed over the last five days in the nation’s capital. Sinkford arrived in Washington on Sunday evening, January…

Read Parts 1 and 2 of Meg Riley’s Diary.The Day AfterJanuary 21 It’s 6:30. Amy got up and crept out of the apartment at 5:15 to catch her morning plane. Jie’s still asleep, so I’m quietly eating a bowl of homemade granola with a banana, and attempting to capture in words the end of our…

Read Part 1 and Part 3 of Riley’s Diary.The Big DayJanuary 20 We talked about what time to get to the Hill this morning and eventually settled on 8 AM, when the security checkpoint was supposed to open. Many thoughts went into when we should leave, and eventually we decided to go with the outer…

Unitarian Universalists (UUs) have traveled to Washington to participate in events leading up to and following the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. On January 18, Rev. William G….

By Rev. William G. Sinkford Delivered at All Souls Church, Unitarian Washington, DC, January 19, 2009 In 1967, at New York’s Riverside Church, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered a historic speech addressing the triple threat of racism, militarism, and poverty. The “Beyond Vietnam”…