The soul of America has yet to be born.

Let us honor our ancestors by doing the work of living boldly, loving mightily, and creating heaven on earth.

Fierce, indomitable, and deeply compassionate, Elandria Williams served as UUA co-moderator from 2017 to 2020.

I do not believe the acts of oppressors are my people’s shame.

I was born nine years after four little girls were killed in Birmingham, Alabama, and two other boys later the same day.

Black men are not a species. They, you, belong to humanity.

No matter what issues I have with other Unitarian Universalists regarding our visions of God/Spirit, justice, race, and age—at the root of everything is community, love, and faith.

None of us would be here were it not for those who lived and won a fight that they were not meant to survive.

Years after the Stonewall uprising, I finally understood concepts like respectability politics and intersectionality.

The chalice, as a symbol of Unitarian Universalism, arose as a beacon of hope in an atmosphere of tyranny. The chalice arose as a sign of promise that the marginalized would neither be forgotten nor ignored, because they are beloved and precious from the perspective of the Holy. This morning, we...

I learned the hard way that there is a deep difference between the Jesus that Black folks worship and the Jesus that white Christians worship.

Our conversations about the history of our country—the actions of our ancestors—can be made new and relevant and understandable. We can and must have these conversations.

May we all remember how inextricably we are linked in this fight for justice and freedom.

There  are  long timelines of history, punctuated by significant interruptions. The ‘Except.’ We are living in the Except.

“Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.” ―Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Raise your hand if you believe you’re not doing enough right now. Do you feel like...

In ancient times, they said Dayenu It would have been enough to have been spared after the plagues. It would have been enough to have been freed of slavery, It would have been enough to have had food in the desert, Now we question, when will it be enough again? Dayenu Will it be enough to stay home?

In a time of uncertainty, when everything around us is changing constantly— each day new developments, rising numbers, changing guidelines; when the world we live in suddenly seems upside-down and topsy-turvy: We light our chalice to remind ourselves of our grounding in our faith....

How the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines came to be, and how it continues to evolve.