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Everything about our existence points towards change, flexibility, and dynamic re-creation. And it’s hard because change involves loss.Poetry | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | August 29, 2025 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Business Meetings, Change, Governance, Leadership, Ministerial Transition, Progress, WorshipWorship element -
The 2017-18 UUA Common ReadAn optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.More on order!Paperback | By Adam Eichen, Frances Moore Lappe | May 27, 2025 | From Beacon PressTagged as: Activism, Connections, Democracy, Politics, ProgressProduct -
Life stories and achievements of African Americans in Unitarian UniversalismPaperback | By Mark D. Morrison-Reed | May 27, 2025 | From Skinner House BooksTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, History, History, Identity, Progress, UU HistoryProduct -
This 21st-century activist’s guide to upending mainstream ideas about race, class, and gender carves out a path to collective liberationPaperback | By Charlene Carruthers | May 27, 2025 | From Beacon PressTagged as: Activism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Progress, Social JusticeProduct -
Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.Paperback | By Mary Frances Berry | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift ShopTagged as: Activism, Democracy, Politics, ProgressProduct -
May we be bold in our faith, declaring that Gone are the Days! We are Unitarian Universalists. We are the blessings we seek for this world and the Beloved Community we are building.Prayer | By Rebekah Savage | November 19, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Community, Credo, Grace, Growth, Progress, Self-Care, Worship, WorthWorship element -
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.Reading | By Howard Zinn | August 1, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Activism, Compassion, Courage, Democracy, History, Hope, Kindness, Progress, WorshipWorship element -
To mark the milestone, revisit photos of some of the joyous events that followed the landmark decision.By Staff Writer | May 8, 2024 | From LifeTagged as: America, Democracy, Family, Gender, Gender Justice, History, Joy, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, LGBTQ Issues, Marriage, Marriage Equality, Progress, Social JusticePage/Article -
We are learning to regroup and remember perfection was never the point.Opening | By Gretchen Haley | June 27, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Grace, Growth, Healing, Progress, Relationships, Resilience, Self-Respect, Vulnerability, WorshipWorship element -
Thresholds. We cross them every day. From room to room, from outside to inside, and back again, from here to there, from anywhere to everywhere, from age to age. Each threshold offers an opportunity for change, for renewal, for transformation, from what we were and what we are to what we can be....Opening | By Arlen Goff | January 2, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Beginnings, Change, Community, Direct Experience, Ending, Hope, Humanism, Progress, Secular, TransformationWorship element -
Advent is about expectation—radical expectations that undo the status quo—and anticipation: a skillful search for the places where liberation rises from the ashes.Reflection | By Robin Tanner | December 5, 2018 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Advent, Anti-Oppression, Christianity, Direct Experience, Patience, Power, Presence, ProgressPage/Article -
I was talking with God the other day, ‘cause we’re cool like that. And God said “Hey, I want you to tell people something.” And I was kinda busy, so I pretended like I didn't hear. And God poked me and said, “I’m not kidding. Pay attention,” (‘cause while we’re cool, we aren’t...Meditation | By Amy Petrie Shaw | November 28, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, God, Integrity, Living Our Faith, Love, Playfulness, Progress, ServiceWorship element -
For all the talk about reason and science, Humanism is really about a passionate love affair. It is a love affair with life, not a mythical hereafter. Humanism is a love affair with a progressive vision of civilization in which each of us can add to our growing library of wisdom, our evolving...Reading | By Michael Werner | April 20, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Humanism, Meaning, Progress, ReasonWorship element -
The road that lies ahead of us is a long one, and the pace of progress will sometimes feel glacially slow. Never forget that glaciers over time can carve out grand canyons and great lakes. Moving tectonic plates can rise up mountains over millennia, or they can explode awe-inspiring volcanoes in...Affirmation | By Israel Buffardi | February 7, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, Agnosticism, Anti-Oppression, Commitment, Earth-Centered, Hope, Humanism, Patience, Progress, SecularWorship element -
All summer, workers have been building a brick wall along the road by my neighborhood. Against the brutal heat, they stretch a tarp overhead to get a little shade. I’ve watched them take bricks in their dusty brown hands one by one, butter them thickly with mortar, line them up, and tap them...Meditation | By Meg Barnhouse | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Community, Joy, Leadership, Personal Stories, Progress, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Teamwork, WorkWorship element
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In 1927 a Roman Catholic priest and scientist Georges Lemaitre proposed what later became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, based on work by Edwin Hubble who theorized and then proved that the Universe was getting bigger and bigger. Many scientists have discovered other...Story | May 13, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From MiraclesTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Birth, Earth, Earth Day, Growth, Humanism, Mystery, Nature, Progress, Reason, Science, TransformationCurriculum page -
Headlights, taillights, going, coming; it does not matter inside. Draw a curtain across the window, lock the door and break the key. Let the interior deepen and broaden until it exceeds this little room. You will go out when you are ready, when the tiny inner Self no longer fits. Awareness will...Meditation | By Jean M. Olson | April 27, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Change, Growth, Identity, Integrity, Progress, TransformationWorship element
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In the struggles we choose for ourselves, in the ways we move forward in our lives and bring our world forward with us, It is right to remember the names of those who gave us strength in this choice of living. It is right to name the power of hard lives well-lived. We share a history with those...Affirmation | By Kathleen McTigue | April 26, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Día de los Muertos, Generations, History, Justice, Leadership, Memorial Services, Ordinations, Progress, ResponsibilityWorship element -
The road of history is long, full of both hope and disappointment. In times past, there have been wars and rumors of wars, violence and exploitation, hunger and homelessness, and destruction of this earth, your creation....Prayer | By Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley, Clyde Grubbs | March 17, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Climate Justice, Courage, Generations, Justice, Leadership, ProgressWorship element -
I am one of those people who love to make New Year’s resolutions. Why not create a vital, remodeled persona, new and improved? Just write down all the things you want to accomplish, all the projects you want to complete, all the character improvements you want to make, and all the skills you want...Meditation | By Barbara Merritt | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Challenge, Change, Grace, Love, Progress, Transformation, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element