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  • On March 13th, 2020, I was hosting a large Friday the 13th themed party at my home. I had just returned from teaching a Southern Region Leadership Experience in Virginia, and I was elated to have dozens of loved ones near me, celebrating family birthdays, eating together, laughing out loud, and...
    by Natalie Briscoe |
  • I have been offered and have accepted the job of Acting Director of HOPE For Us: Conflict Engagement. I am excited about this opportunity and honored to have been asked to serve in this capacity. Rev. Dr. Hope Johnson and I had been working together on the idea of this program for several years....
    by Connie Goodbread |
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    After the devastation of hurricane Katrina in 2005, the two UU congregations in New Orleans and one in Lacombe, LA formed a cluster known as the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists (GNOUU) to share the work of rebuilding our UU churches and extending outreach into the community. For about...
    by Katie Gelfand, Erica Merchant Lee, Cynthia Ramirez |
  • Based on the work of Natalie Briscoe Let us begin as we mean to continue, which translates into our sharing a core premise that leadership development is critically important to the vitality of our communities. Even more important is how we approach Unitarian Universalist leadership development.
    by Nancy Combs-Morgan, Cameron Young, Lillian Drab-Braddick |
  • Looking Forward, Looking Back, Connie Who knew that watching the Inauguration and the restoration of basic operations of our government would make us feel such a mixture of emotions. The years of broken norms within our government and the horrors of the pandemics of both racism and COVID-19 have...
    by Connie Goodbread, Natalie Briscoe |
  • Who would have ever thought that something good could emerge during a pandemic? From our perspective, serving as Congregational Life staff, we have been so inspired by the good, adaptive, and transformative ways our congregations have responded to COVID19. Well, here is some more good news, this...
    by Kathy McGowan, Nancy Combs-Morgan |
  • When I was a divinity student at Meadville Lombard Theological School one of the first classes I took was “Ministry in the Post-Denominational Age,” taught by now-President-Emeritus Rev. Dr. Lee Barker. The premise of the course is that the era of mainstream denominations shaping the religious...
    by Nathan Hollister |
  • I’ve been thinking a lot about how tired I am of hearing words that include black, dark, and more, used in a negative way even as we proclaim that Black Lives Matter. How much time and effort do we give to contextualizing our use of those words that have the power to turn
    by Hope Johnson |
  • This Fall, focus on building connections in your faith community through Small Group Ministry. Small groups are great places to relate to fellow UUs and get to know yourself too. In small group ministry, five to twelve folks gather regularly to share, reflect, and discuss significant life topics....
    by Lillian Drab-Braddick |
  • It’s no secret or surprise: Families have it rough right now. We are struggling. Caregivers agonize over making educational decisions for the younger members of their families while, in many cases, choosing between income and adequate childcare. Misinformation continues to be rampant, and the...
    by Natalie Briscoe |