General Assembly 2005 Event 2083 Plenary II Presentation (PDF, 43 pages) by Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Washington Office Interns Moderator Gini Courter called the assembled delegate body to order at 2:45. The session began with General Assembly (GA) Planning Committee Chair Linda...

General Assembly 2005 Event 1029 The 44th Annual General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association began just after 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, in the Arena of the Fort Worth Convention Center. About four thousand Unitarian Universalists streamed into the large, bowl-shaped arena for...

Minutes Official Minutes (PDF) of the Forty-forth General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association, held in Fort Worth, TX Social Justice Statements Statement of Conscience: Criminal Justice and Prison Reform Study/Action Issue: Moral Values for a Pluralistic Society for 2005-2007...

General Assembly 2005 Event 3108 Moderator Gini Courter called the plenary into session, and invited the Rev. Ned Wight, First Vice Moderator of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Board, and Tamara Payne-Alex, UUA Trustee at Large, to begin the presentation of the Board's report....

Thursday, June 24 1026 Opening Celebration Friday, June 25 2002 Friday Morning Worship: "If You Can't Walk On Water, Then Get in the Boat" 2004 Plenary I 2027 Theme 1 (Letting Our Light Shine): Same-Sex Marriage: Finding Our Public Voice 2039 Amy Goodman: From Democracy Now 2066 Striking Parallel...

General Assembly 2004 Event 5042 The focus of this event was the presentation of the 2004 Social Witness Sermon Award of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association and the Commission on Social Witness (CSW) to the Rev. Victoria Weinstein, Minister of First Parish Church in Norwell, MA. To...

General Assembly 2004 Event 4049 "Harvesting Hope Through Social Consciousness" Holly Near, Folk Singer and Activist Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) President Bill Sinkford introduced the 80th Ware lecture by listing some of the past lecturers including, once before, "a poet who used mus...

General Assembly 2004 Event 3115A This program is a celebration that immediately followed program #3115 ("9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights") presented by Kathy Sreedhar, Director of the Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program and Rev....

General Assembly 2004 Event 5002 "Until All Are Equal: Refusing to Sign Marriage Licenses" The Rev....

General Assembly 2004 Event 2027 Panelists: Hillary Goodridge, co-lead plaintiff in Massachusetts Supreme Court case to legalize same-sex marriage Rev. Keith Kron, Director of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Concerns Rev....

General Assembly 2004 Event 4003 Order of Service (PDF) Delegates, Unitarian Universalists from nearby congregations, and many guests responding to inviting ads in the local newspaper gathered in worship in the Convention Hall for music, poetry, and a sermon by the Reverend William G. Sinkford,...

General Assembly 2004 Event 2066 Sponsor: Asian/Pacific Islander Caucus (A/PIC) of Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) Speaker: John Tateishi This GA workshop marks the second time the group has brought in a prominent speaker of Asian/Pacific Islander...

General Assembly 2004 Event 2108 Order of Service (PDF) The Service of the Living Tradition is our annual celebration to mark the progress of Unitarian Universalist ministers and credentialed religious educators....

General Assembly 2004 Event 3002 Speaker: The Rev. Liz Lerner As the Rev. Elizabeth Lerner welcomed worshippers who gathered at the Long Beach Convention Center on Saturday morning, she said, "What a pleasure, what an honor to be here this morning and see before me a multitude of UUs. Your...

General Assembly 2004 Event 3032 Speaker: Rev. Dr. Forrest Church, Senior Minister, Unitarian Church of All Souls, New York City The separation of church and state, espoused by the founders of our nation, today lies in jeopardy. The Rev. Dr....

General Assembly 2004 Event 2091 Speaker: Robert Reich Robert Reich was Secretary of Labor during President Clinton's first term. He has spent, he says, half his adult life in public service. He has spent the other half as a professor, an author and a public-radio commentator....

General Assembly 2004 Event 3035 Speaker: California State Senator Sheila Kuehl Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry, CA Get Involved Newsletters...

General Assembly 2004 Event 1026 "Welcome to the 43rd annual General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)," said Rev. Marguerite D. Lovett, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach, as she lit a flaming chalice, the well-known symbol of the UUA....

General Assembly 2004 Event 2002 Speakers: Rev. Michael McGee & Rev. Linda Olson Peebles, Team Ministers, Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church of Arlington, VA It seems fitting for this, the first worship service for the entire assembly preceding the first of our plenaries, to celebrate small group...

General Assembly 2004 Event 5060 (Long Beach, CA, June 28, 2004) The high point of the Closing Celebration of the 43rd annual General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) was the installation of Gini Courter as the new moderator of the UUA....