Why This Young Adult Won’t Give Up On Religion Fort Worth. Seattle. Denver. Arlington. Columbia, Missouri. Five of us, young adults from across the South and West, huddled in the Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church office at one in the morning and strategized for the big Sunday morning...

Unitarian Universalist Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) will send a copy of it to those who ask free of charge. (Until the copies run out, of course.) Here are the details: the UUA has printed 3000 copies of Becoming, nearly a third of which are going to young adult, campus ministry and...

Central East Regional Group (CERG) regional conference comes from CERG Con senior co-dean Lilly Kahris. –Ed. I have found that car rides are a good time for thinking. I have been to 10+ youth conferences; many have which required a long drive. Usually I listen to music, or chat casually with the...

Re-read or Share the Ten Most-read stories on Blue Boat How Am I, Anyway? http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2013/09/05/improve-young-adult-ministry-a… Young Adult Ministry at Your Congregation … Seminary Was Awesome http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2014/01/06/sunday-assembly-has-it-backwar… Assembly...

Welcome to the Spotlight Series! Each month we feature a different Unitarian Universalist congregation or community that is doing effective, innovative or otherwise interesting ministry with young adults.– Ed. Embodied multigenerational worship draws young adults Though...

We Should All Be So Privileged I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. – Stokely Carmichael, as quoted in Be the Change Session 5, Can We Live With Racism? "Be the Change" By Eric...

When Was the Last Time You Had An Opportunity Like This? [vimeo 114998025 600pxw 300pxh] Friends, General Assembly (GA) is ONLY six months away!...

Spiritual Growth Happens Someplace... rel… practices and identification of people is evolving, the value of spiritual congregation remains, as this excerpt of a post from the Parenting Blog of the New York Times explains.–Ed. Learn how Unitarian Universalism, and The Unitarian Universalist...

Young Adult Spiritual Growth and Community is Here Winter Escape 2015 Retreat (WE'15) is now open! Spend your Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend (Friday January 16 to Monday, January 19, 2015) engaged in social and spiritual activities, workshops, hiking, games, music, cooking, baking, and more!

We re-post the monthly newsletter of our friends of the Office of Multicultural Growth and Witness of the Unitarian Universalist Association with a call to action – pledge your support to help end racial motivated acts of police brutality. – Ed. December 2014: Black Lives Matter—Are You Signed...

Revealed by Belief and Action growing number of people who have no particular religious affiliation with a religious faith – http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/sdt-… particular Millennials – however this thought provoking discussion with Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDALREDAUnitarian Universalist religious educators and the field of religious education. Projects funded include (but are not limited to) innovative programs, training opportunities, publications, electronic networks, and services for religious educators.

Witness – and Make History in March, 2015 Living Legacy Project is hosting a conference, Marching in the Arc of Justice, in Birmingham, AL on March 5-8, 2015. It is open to people of all ages, and we would love to see a contingent of Unitarian Universalist...

As Seen on the VUU Bob LaVallee, seminarian and Meadville Lombard talks about the value of "Bl… All Who Serve" – the irreplaceable and affectionately named "little blue book", published by Skinner House Books, and available at the UUA Bookstore. Watch this excerpt, queued to begin at 40:25...

Take a side order of giving with your thanking #GivingTuesdayMake a donation to Unitarian Universalist youth and young adult ministries! Support your congregation's youth group! Or a campus ministry group! Visit faithify.orgUnitarian Universalism! Donatetweet out to...

Bringing Worship to the Street of the Cities Last night I went to church. It wasn't, however, the most conventional church experience. In fact, the Unitarian Universalist faithDudley square, right across from the Facebook event afterward, some 1600 people gathered. We began with 4.5 minutes of...

Luminary Leading, that is. Who won the Luminary Leaders drawing of a pair of super plush UUA sweats? Watch to find out: [vimeo 112851385] Catch the flame – become a Luminary Leader yourself!

"Collectively, we must be a strong voice for change to end police brutality and the systemic racism in our society that causes violence, chaos, and death. Black lives matter." – Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association Friends, Yesterday it was announced that...

Calling All Yellow Shirts of Love, Tolerance and Justice The hereIan Evison of the MidAmerica Region: If I might be so bold here, you all can do something very important by responding where you are, taking photos of it, and documenting that online. This is a new age in activism in which “showing...