What did I need to retrieve from a visit to the slave ships' point of departure?

We all navigate through circumstances at the limits of human experience.

We post excerpts of this interview from the Beacon Broadside, the blog of Beacon Press about interfaith leadership at the by Susan Katz Miller Recently, a selected Rabbi Chava Bahle to serve as their new leader....

The future of faith will be determined as much by its ability to create fulfilling spiritual experience as it will by its usefulness and relevancy addressing real questions that people can't get answered elsewhere. We re-post this response by a Unitarian Universalist youth to an article that...

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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...

What if the meaning and value of faith movements were built and changed by their users – a "Wikipedia faith"? Question posed by Landon Whitsitt on the Alban Institute blog. Read Whitsitt's pot on the Alban Institute here...

Welcome to the Spotlight Series! Each month we’ll feature a different Unitarian Universalist congregation or community that is doing effective, innovative or otherwise interesting ministry with young adults. –Ed. Marisa Williams is a new parent in Des Moines, Iowa. When her daughter Lilian was...

Despite our best intentions, all parents make mistakes, act inconsistently, and generally fall short of our goals. But we can also model asking for forgiveness.

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,...

By feeding others, a congregation in New York nourishes its soul – and makes a difference in its community. We repost this story by DNAinfo New York. – Ed. Soul Food Truck Serves Free Meals to Homeless in Tompkins Sq. Park Middle Collegiate Church on Second Avenue and East Seventh Street, serves...

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?...

While PEW quizzes"Are You a Millennial", Susan Katz Miller, in her book Being Both - Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family from www.beacon.org/">Beacon Press, explores how Millennials understand mixing faith traditions differently than others and what that means for the future of...

This story comes to us from Stevie St. John, a young adult at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, CA. She shares her experience with organizing young adults from multiple churches to get together for fellowship. – Ed. Prime number NeighborhoodUU Church of Studio City, was...

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Code Switch - This NPR blog is one of the best places for new takes on race and culture, particularly the intersection of race with other identities and issues (like gender and class). >> npr.org/blogs/codeswitch Colorlineshttp://colorlines.com/archives/2011/11/jay_smooths_ted_talk_on_how_he_l…...

humorcomplexRowan Atkinson claims that people can be funny in three ways: by behaving in an unusual way, being in an unusual place, or being the wrong size.[*...

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....