UU Campus Ministry Spans the Divide Rev. Evan Young contributes this compelling post about the role www.uua.org/re/campusministry/">Unitarian Universalist campus ministry plays in interfaith healing on the campus of www.osu.edu/">Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. – Ed. By Rev. Evan Young As an...

RESIST Mass Incarceration and Police Brutality This October Holding the megaphone in my hand felt like standing at the top of a high dive. It looks easy when someone else dives off, but once you're up there, you wonder why you thought this was a good idea. “Oh, I’m not sure I can do this. I...

Louie Lastik, Remember the Titans Wintertime in Houston sneaks up on you. As children we sweated in our Halloween costumes and, some years, played the big Thanksgiving Day basketball game in shorts. That first 40-degree day in early December alerted us it was time to ask our parents for money for...

October 12, 2015: Columbus Day INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY Sign this petition today it'll make a difference next year, and every year thereafter. From Beacon Press – http://www.beacon.org/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=819&Name=Ro… Dunbar-Ortiz (author of...

Notes from the Interview of Dr. Cornel West by Owen Huelsbeck Young Adult and former GA Youth Caucus Dean Owen Huelsbeck furnished the Blue Boat notes from his meeting with Dr. Cornel West on the occasion of Dr. West's appearance at Santa Clara University. (Dr. West will also deliver the Ware...

Owen Huelsbeck, first-year student and www.scu.edu/provost/research/johnsonscholars/">Johnson Scholar at www.scu.edu/">Santa Clara University, was chosen to interview Dr. Cornel West during his visit to the University. Owen is a Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)...

Not Columbus Day: Indigenous People's Day Indigen… People's Day celebrates the people and cultures of the Americas whose destiny was changed by his arrival. Columbus' voyage was the result of a papal policy of religious conquest – the effects of which continue to Read more. Unitarian...

How Far Would You Go To Fix this Picture? Recent studies reveal that most Americans underestimate the cleavage between the best-and-worst paid workers in America. Most people believe the difference is $30 earned by the best-paid workers for every $1 received by the worst paid workers, while – in...

The Climate Changed for the Better Last Sunday ...

Unitarian Universalist Common Endowment Fund (UUCEF) has joined other institutional investors in calling for Carbon Pricing and a comprehensive agreement to deal with the effects of climate change on people and the environment. uucef.org...

Jimmy Kimmel was able to convince passersby was the same as a $20 Casio watch – remember, smartphones aren’t just shiny they’re deadly. Your smartphone is one of the e… at your ear if you use it while charging, nor because you can...

Michael Brown – killed by the police years before he or his aggressor were born. TO BEAR WITNESS – AGAIN This blog has published extensively on the inequitable treatment of racial and other minorities in American society. The recent police killing of 18-year old Michael Brown in Ferguson,...

The Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), issued this statement following the continued violence in Ferguson, MO: Church of the Larger Fellowship, offers The Huffington Post. This statement is available on UUA.org.

Carey Niewhof points out that changes in culture and lifestyle often prefigure the way people will live their faith in the future, and that studying the changes in how we consume entertainment today can lead to insights into how people will experience their faith tomorrow. Carey Niewhof's...

Jamelle Bouie explains the relationship between home ownership, poverty and risk, noting that the recession of 2008-2009 obliterated fully 31% of wealth and 28% of home-equity among blacks in America. Read the full text of "Slate.www.uua.org/economic/">Learn how the Unitarian Universalist...

Youth Justice Training in Boston, offered by the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ), one of the requirements was to intern at a social justice organization. In our case, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Our UUA liason (Susan Leslie) took us to the Massachusetts...

Youth and Young Adults Respond to Operation Save America Targeting First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana were targeted on Sunday, July 20, 2014 by members of the anti-abortion protest group Operation Save America (OSA)– formerly known as "Operation Rescue" – for having...

Tipped-Minimum Wage is $2.13 hour. Some think that's enough. Restaurant Opportunities United (ROC United), re-posted on http://www.upworthy.com/why-waiters-only-make-2-an-hour-explained-by-a-…;, with links to information on the...

Scientists Confirm Inevitable Sea-Level Rise Like the tip of the fabled iceberg, the now confirmed inevitable rise of sea-level over the coming years hides social injustice that the Unitarian Universalist Association labors to undo. Just follow the causal chain to understand what rising sea-level...