General Assembly 2005 Event 4002 Speakers: Rev. Robert Hardies, Rev. Barbara Wells ten Hove, Jeannie Gagné 2,787 people streamed into the arena at Fort Worth for the Sunday morning worship service at the 2005 Unitarian Unviersalist Association (UUA) General Assembly. "This is the largest crowd...

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General Assembly 2005 Event 4024 Speakers: Dr. George Lakoff, Rev. Dr. Davidson Loehr, Helio Fred Garcia, Rev. Meg Riley Rev. Meg Riley, Director, Advocacy & Witness, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), introduced the speakers starting with Dr. George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics: How...

General Assembly 2005 Event 2124 At every General Assembly, Unitarian Universalists gather for the Service of the Living Tradition, the celebration of our professional ministers and credentialed religious educators. The Service of the Living Tradition this year celebrates the 12 recently deceased...

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General Assembly 2005 Event 3028 Seventeen years ago, when David Dow was first asked to defend a death row inmate, he was a supporter of the death penalty. Capital punishment was an abstraction to him, and he imagined that death row was populated by monsters such as Hannibal Lector and Charles...

General Assembly 2005 Event 5056 The Closing Celebration of the 44th annual General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA) started off with a half hour of ingathering music. The General Assembly Band played straight-ahead jazz, with pleasing solos by Stan...

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General Assembly 2005 Event 5043 "This is the last and longest plenary session," Moderator Gini Courter announced, as she opened the 6th plenary session of the 2005 General Assembly (GA). Courter recognized representatives of four professional organizations: the Unitarian Universalist Ministers...

General Assembly 2005 Event 4004 Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Moderator Gini Courter called the fifth Plenary of the 2005 General Assembly (GA) to order at 12:20 p.m. with the song "Lonely, I'm feeling lonely." Courter pointed out that although the General Assembly program correctly...

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....