We post excerpts of a letter written by a death-row inmate which reflect the wisdom of understanding the inhumane motivations of mass incarceration and capital punishment....

52 Weeks in 52 Faiths: My Personal Survey of Religions in My Backyard" started on January 5 with a visit to the United Church of Christ (Congregational) in Ogden, across the street from his home. On February 16, Chad visited the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden (Utah) (a UUA Breakthrough...

Day 24: Employ the Sacred Pause lectio divina practice in the morning, when I take the time to focus on one task at a time, my life feels better. That doesn’t mean I always do it. There are still days when I leave too late and blame it on the traffic (the Bay Area equivalent to blaming it on the...

The story this post tells was submitted as part of http://standingonthesideoflove.org/2014_30days_calendar/Tuesday-Februar… 18 of the Thirty Days of Love. It is so powerful and disturbing it stands on its own.–Ed. By Leila Pine, Volunteer Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, a...

DAY 18: For Immigration Reform UUAhttp://standingonthesideoflove.org/2014_30days_calendar/Tuesday-Februar… Days of Love Campaign, immigration, has become a divisive flash point in our society, pitting person against person on the basis of our origin. But I ask that you, the reader, consider for a...

DAY 17: Put Love into Practice First Parish in Milton to talk about what it means to do good in the world. This great group of teens is raising money for an organization jn the Boston area called Bridge Over Troubled Waters, which provides life-changing services for homeless and at-risk youth,...

DAY 12: Same Place, New Times...

Determining, "Who am I?", does not happen in isolation. Jessica York, Director of Faith Development at the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) reminds us in her post originally appearing on Call and Response, the blog of the Office of Faith Formation at the UUA, reminds us that identity is...

DAY 11: Living Out Your Story The Sanctuaries | Washington, DC, writes in his post below, the choice to intentionally hear the story of another and share our story as well empowers us as actors of social justice....

DAY 9: Making the narrative public list of peace activists) and whose contribution is just as meaningful. What these people did is simple – they had the courage to speak out in ways that other people can hear. Speaking out doesn't need a big name. It doesn't need a following of thousands, what it...

Malcolm Gladwell discusses the power of faith and explains his reawakening to it in these excepts from his post about researching and writing his latest book, David and Goliath. His post, Relevant Magazine blogsite. Read Malcolm Gladwell's full post...

The recent Royal pardon of Alan Turing for - what was at the time - the criminal offense of homosexuality reveals the struggle for equality of treatment before the law of the LGBTQ community is not over – not in Great Britain, nor the United States, nor elsewhere in the world. –Ed. Pardon Should...

UU congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, New York. More than 140 Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists from twenty-five countries will gather for the event. http://international.blogs.uua.org/files/2013/09/ICUU-Conference-and-Co… program (PDF) will include theme talks, worship services,...

I, like many UUs, was both excited and curious to learn about The Sunday Assembly, the latest trend among atheists and agnostics. Have you heard about these British hipster high priests of nonbelief?...

Zach Wahls shares what a year of ups-and-downs has taught him in his opinion piece originally appearing in the Daily Iowan. – Ed. With Grace Comes Power - and Responsibility Daily Iowan www.dailyiowan.com/2013/12/17/Opinions/36087.html">here...

Rev. Frank Schaefer will likely lose his ministry and be defrocked by the www.umc.org">United Methodist Church this week. We re-post Rev. Schaefer's explanation of why he will not change his position on marriage equality or his calling or the LGBT community from the Reconciling Ministries Network.

Morristown Unitarian Fellowship, getting a new multigenerational tradition started. In Peoria, Illinois the This reflection on the complexities of grief, grace and gratitude comes from the Rev. Julia Corbett-Hemeyer at the This blogpost by Rev....

Guest post by Stephanie Carey-Marron. – Ed. This year, for the first time in our lifetime, Thanksgiving (November 28) coincides with the first day of Hanukkah (the evening of November 27 through the night of November 28). For most of us, it’s exciting. If you’re my husband, well…let’s...

Support Pastor Frank Schaefer standing on the side of love. Declaring, "I will never be silent again," Pastor Frank Schaefer accepts that the United Methodist Church will defrock him for supporting marriage equality because it is counter to church law. In appreciation of his principled stand we...