The family is a huge factor in a child's faith development. Reverend Makanah Morris has likened family life to a ground in which seeds of a child's faith are planted. She writes, "The seeds are planted in the early environment, but the ground can also be prepared for spreading roots and welcoming...

Unitarian Universalism welcomes the Transgendered and supports Transgendered equality. Learn how the UUA persuaded Verizon to protect transgendered workers. Excerpted from the essay in Ivan E. Coyote's book on Slate.com: I don’t see cisgendered women who want to feel safe in a public washroom as...

Where do you find comfort in suffering if you don’t believe suffering has a greater purpose?

Unitarian Universalism is a welcoming faith that encourages interfaith search for spiritual fulfillment and meaning, while – according to research from PEW Forum on Religion and Public Life – the United States is considered to be only "moderately" religiously diverse, and the second most common...

Ramon Selove and his wife, Shellie Selove, are Our Whole Lives sexuality education facilitator trainers. They are members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley (VA)....

SUMMER PLANNING Continental Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network, this year hosted by theOhio-Meadville District. http://www.ohiomeadville.org/omdevents/736-opus14#sthash.3lCE4CyX.dpuf"… the OPUS 2014 website for detailed information, a video of OPUS 2010 and to register. Early Bird...

Three historic churches are home to Unitarian Universalist congregations in downtown Boston.

Visiting Auschwitz, the imagination can only handle so much.

Don't Be Sad, Be Blue! The Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) founded by Eboo Patel works to bring people of different faiths – atheists included – together behind the unifying message: We are better together. Watch Eboo Patel's Ware Lecture to the 2013 UUA General Assembly From the IFYC website: When...

Ultimate Courageous Love Ku Klux Klan. (One of whom was a paid F.B.I. informant, provoking a c… of disinformation attacking Viola Luizzo, mostly based upon her gender and choice to absent herself from her family and join the cause in Alabama.) Though not remembered nor celebrated as well as other...

Fewer Believe in the Supernatural, More in the Rational 1http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/losing-faith-21-percent-s… the poll results on NBC.com. A Harris Interactive Poll on American's religious beliefs shows that while 74% of Americans believe in God, belief in God, miracles and...

Justice Training for Youth from The College of Social Justice uucsj.org/youth...

multiverse theory points the way to a closer relationship between scientific thought and faith, and can create greater relevancy for faith movements like Unitarian Universalism that are non-dogmatic and encourage a rational basis for faith. The search for spiritual meaning and faith in endless...

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“Although churches be distinct, and….equal and therefore have not dominion one over another; yet all the churches ought to preserve church communion one with another…The communion of churches is exercised in sundry ways. ( 1). By way of mutual care, in taking thought for one another’s...

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

Sacred Roots: Indigenous Rights, Resistance, and Reclamation (happening April 3rd to April 5th) we wanted to publish this blog to reflecting at what we here in the Office think of as the top 5 Spring Seminars held within the past twenty years. Remember, this is a completely subjective list....

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read all 7 Principles). The Seven Principles informs the work the UUA on issues of Social Justice – here are some the ways how: Fight… the Boy Scouts of America ban against gay scouts. Protecting Transgender people in the workplace. Working for marriage-equality. Learn more about Unitarian...