Continuity... and Growth Coming of Age programs that include authoring one’s own statement of belief, would seem to avoid. Yet regardless of the specifics, both Christian and UU youth seem to be rejecting the institutional feel of a faith that does not value their priorities or embrace their...

Choosing religious affiliation matters http…; [2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/unitarian-universalists…; [3] http://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/officers/president/morales/192145.shtm…; [4] I preached a sermon on this dynamic called “The Pilgrims, the Road and the Path”,...

Are We Moving Beyond Religion? http://www…; [2] Putnam, R. D. and Cambpell, D. E. (2010) American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. Pg 84. http://www…; [4] For a good sampling, check out the Unitarian Universalist Association’s page on demographic and...

The Love Surrounds Us program explores all the Unitarian Universalist Principles in the context of the Beloved Community of family/home, school, and neighborhood. 

In a changing world, faith and spiritual search remain ...

The Landscape of Faith Does Not Look as it Used To This brings us to the second point, which is how robust this trend is. Every major poll, including the ones conducted by Putnam and Campbell, the highly-respected Pew Research Center,[8] the General Social Survey,[9] and the American Religious...

Unitarian Universalist Association, I’ve had a chance to review the literature and research on my generation and its unique relationship with religious institutions, and it is clear that responding to the shifts which Millennials (born between the early 1980’s and 2000) are leading in the...

Propose Your Vision of How "Love Reaches Out"...

In the Roman Catholic tradition, October 4 is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis (1182-1226) was a monk who founded the contemporary order of FranciscansMichelle Richards, on September 30th, 2013 St. Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals, and his feast day of October 4 is...

Changing demographics and lifestyles present a challenge to the relevancy and health of faith organizations as we have known them for the past half-century, however Carol Howard Merritt, in this post from the Alban Institute, encourages us to see the opportunity for growth and vision these...

This report of a Unitarian Universalist Congregation acting upon the beliefs we share comes from our friends at UU World and provides the opportunity for reflection on our Fifth Principle. – Ed. Florida Church Welcomes Boy Scouts Spurned by Baptists When three local units of the Boy Scouts of...

Dear Friends,J… the Move Sunday. This is a chance for us to celebrate our Unitarian Universalist community and to strengthen our connections. If you haven’t already, I invite your congregation to sign up. Our official Join the Move Sunday is October 6, 2013, but you can hold this service any day...

Who knew such a little book could say so much? Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide and find other resources about Unitarian Universalism or for new UU's at the UUA Bookstore.

Congregations and groups across the country will soon be meeting recently bridged young adults moving into their area. Youth who registered for the http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2013/05/02/be-a-bridge-keeper-for-youth-f… Connections program last spring have now moved on from high school and are...

We share this reflection on the value of openness and trust in the face of uncertainty borne upon past experience by the Rev. Erik Wikstrom from his blog, A Minister's Musings. Follow Rev. Wikstrom on his blog. – Ed. http://a-ministers-musings.blogspot.com/2013/08/to-believe-or-not-to-be…...

We re-post an excerpt of this story by Christine from her blog At the Super Bowl, some of us were having conversations about what constitutes becoming “middle age”. It was mostly folks from my church’s Young Adult group in attendance. My husband and I were on the young end of the age...

We re-post a hypertext annotated edition of an opinion by Rachel Held Evans from her blog at Belief Blog on cnn.com Opinion by Rachel Held Evans At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial. I wrote my first essay with a pen and paper, but by the time I graduated from college, I owned a cell phone and...

We re-post this article from Tufts Now. –Ed. Tapping into Tufts' Spiritual Heritage Rev. Gregory McGonigle, a Unitarian minister with a focus on "lived religion," begins July 1 as the new university chaplain “When I think about Tufts’ Universalist heritage, I think about Tufts’ commitments...

This story about the Youth Group at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Flint (Michigan) by Chris Aldridge (caldridg@mlive.c…; comes to us from the MLive newsite. – Ed. Youth Group Aims to Change World, 2-Bucks at a Time FLINT, MI – Armed with a meager $2 each, junior and senior high...