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...

Confounding gender stereotypes with brush and lens. View the entire Transportraits series. Read Lorenzo Triburgo's statementr on the Transportraits series. On Slate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/07/09/lorenzo_triburgo_transport… the Courage of Transgender Men On Huffington Post:...

Looking back on 2013, we wonder what wonders the new year holds in store... – Ed. Top Ten Stories of 2013...

Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), issued the following statement on the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela: "As we begin to grieve the death of Nelson Mandela, I am reminded of his words, 'I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it....

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.[*...

A founding story of American Thanksgiving, reflected by the History Channel claims, " In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies."(Read source hereIndian Country Toda...

Blue Boat of Youth and Young Adult Ministries is doing something special to celebrate the unusual confluence of …; and Hanukkahcloud-spaceGregorian calendar while Hanukkah follows the lunisolarHebrew calendar. But, hey – http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/2343364/jewish/…...

"We’ve got to realize what we’re doing here with our theology..." Over the weekend Reverend Frank Schaefer spoke about his suspension and impending defrocking by the United Methodist Church. During a radio interview he explained that understanding the pain caused by the church's position that...

Re-posted from the Huffington Post. Read the original story on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/18/frank-schaefer_n_4299128.html"…;. –Ed. Frank Schaefer, Methodist Pastor, Convicted By Jury For Officiating Son's Same-Sex Marriage...

Find out in 14 Questions. PEW Research Center created a quiz to answer the burning question "Am I a Millennial?" See how your point-of-view aligns with that of the Millennial Generation....

Too Many Run-On Sentences Huffington Post. Profiling 32 people serving life sentences and describing the crimes for which they received a life, or double-life, sentence without possibility of parole. Aiken Standard. Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights Committee...

National Congregations Study (also conducted in 1998 and 2007). From the report, the joint meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association revealed that churches of all types are increasingly diverse and more welcoming than before. The National...

Youth Caucus 2014 Facebook group, the @YouthCaucusGAGeneral Assembly this year, and you should be too! LEARN MORE: Youth Caucus at General Assembly JOIN THE STAFF: http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2013/10/10/we-want-youth-and-adults-too/"… Caucus Staff Applications ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tahoma Unitarian...

Church and beer? Motivation matters! NPR story to which he referred. It was being passed around facebook, a news story titled “http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/03/242301642/to-stave-off-decl… Stave Off Decline, Churches Attract New Members with Beer.” Because of the title and the way...

Continuity... and Growth Coming of Age programs that include authoring one’s own statement of belief, would seem to avoid. Yet regardless of the specifics, both Christian and UU youth seem to be rejecting the institutional feel of a faith that does not value their priorities or embrace their...

Information and data to better understand where religion, religious identification and practice are headed in the future. – Ed. INFOGRA… Millennials & Religion. About 28 percent of American adults have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion, or no religion at all -...

Check-out these fun videos and use the wealth of resources offered by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in support of the 2013-2014 Common Read, Behind the Kitchen Door, by Saru Jayaraman.–Ed. Common Read 2014 with these activities: Ask Your...

Choosing religious affiliation matters http…; [2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/unitarian-universalists…; [3] http://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/officers/president/morales/192145.shtm…; [4] I preached a sermon on this dynamic called “The Pilgrims, the Road and the Path”,...

House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner recently expressed tentative interest in bringing this issue to the House Floor for a vote. There is bi-partisan support in both chambers. Polls show that 70% of registered voters want immigration reform. All that’s stopping us is the lack of action on the part...

Tallahassee Unitarian Universalist asks a probing question that enables us to examine how Unitarian Universalist congregations can become more welcoming. Read more at tallahasseeuu.blogspot.comhttp://ow.ly/pVjnCTallahassee Unitarian Universalist.