A single story may win, but the alternate stories do not fully disappear.

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…...

Many of us like to point out our UU connections with well-loved Christmas music and rituals. Charles Follen introduced the first Christmas tree in the United States. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women sacrifice their own Christmas presents for impoverished neighbor children. Charles Dickens’ A...

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....

https://www.google.com/search?q=menurkey&client=firefox-a&hs=V7…; Adorable.

Rabbi David Kudan asks, ReformJudiasm.orgHanukkahhttp://www.reformjudaism.org/blog/2013/10/15/looking-perfect-thanksgivu… one from Jewish cooking expert Tina Wasserman) featuring foods like latkes with cranberry sauce, and the term...

Guest post by Stephanie Carey-Marron. – Ed. This year, for the first time in our lifetime, Thanksgiving (November 28) coincides with the first day of Hanukkah (the evening of November 27 through the night of November 28). For most of us, it’s exciting. If you’re my husband, well…let’s...

Support Pastor Frank Schaefer standing on the side of love. Declaring, "I will never be silent again," Pastor Frank Schaefer accepts that the United Methodist Church will defrock him for supporting marriage equality because it is counter to church law. In appreciation of his principled stand we...

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/…...

The Sunday Assembly movement shares Unitarian Universalism's values, but has a lot more fun expressing them.

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American Library Association recommends Skinner House book. Read, follow or like the Skinner House Facebook page. Buy "Muhammad: The Story of a Prophet and Reformer" at the UUA Bookstore.

Seven of 14 / Sixteen of 50. Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association of the Massachusetts Bay District filed amicus curiae briefs in the case. From the beginning UUs have led in this fight for social justice - which is also something to celebrate on this day. ReadR…; the statement by Rev.

Where are you in the stories of the two holidays that just happen to coincide this year?

Young Adult and Multigenerational Ministry Director Kimberly Paquette provides us the opportunity to discern the difference between opposing war and accepting those who serve in the military with open hearts and minds. Re-posted from UU World On-line. – Ed. The only time I was called by my first...

The joint communication from the UUA and the UUSC refers to the special ties that bind Unitarian Universalism with the Philippine people, but even if that were not the case an urgent response is needed to relief the suffering caused by the astounding damage of Typhoon Haiyan....