Campus ministries reopen as students head back to school As Unitarian Universalist college students head back to school this fall, they don’t have to leave all their church connections behind. At least not at the more than 150 schools around the country with campus ministry programs. Read more...

Award Citation Unitarian Universalist ministers serving in and around New York City at the time of September 11, 2001, found it no easy task to carry their ministry to the first responders and construction works at Ground Zero. "Who are you?" they were asked. "Who sent you? On whose authority are...

At General Assembly 2006, UUA President William Sinkford said that one of his honors is to present the President's Award for Volunteer Service....

Dr. Norma Miller Poinsett has served the Unitarian Universalist Association for over 35 years. A long-time member of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago, Il, Norma was identified early for her leadership skills....

Remarks by the Rev. William G. Sinkford Jan and Stu Sendell have been active Unitarian Universalists for over 30 years in congregations in Paramus and Morristown, New Jersey. Nearly ten years ago they were invited to join the UUA's Presidents' Council. They agreed and the Association has been...

This award was given annually in 1995-2010 to recognize the importance of ministry to young adults (ages 18-35) and to honor people who have contributed to its advancement. It was given to an individual or group who had been committed to and furthered the cause of ministry to young adults. At...

Presented by the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations to Rev. Dr. Jane R. Rzepka Jane Ranney Rzepka exemplifies the best of Unitarian Universalism. Raised in a Unitarian Universalist (UU) family in Mentor, Ohio, she is the oldest of five in a theologically diverse family....

Presented by the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations to Rev. Forrest Church Forrest Church: master of the pulpit and the pen, spouse, father, pastor, theologian, scholar, lover of life—through your words, both spoken and penned, created over the course of your extraordinary thirty...

Born and raised in the segregated community of Savannah, Georgia, in the late 1940s, Leon E....

During a Plenary session at the 2006 General Assembly, Moderator Ginig Courter called on UUA Trustee at Large José Ballester, chair of the Award Committee, to present the award for distinguished service. Ballester said that the identity of this year's award recipients "has been one of the worst...

Judy McGavin, Trustee from the Pacific Northwest District, introduced this award, explaining that each year the Board chooses a person to receive its highest recognition, the Distinguished Service to Unitarian Universalism Award. This year the Board chose the Rev. Eugene Navias. Navias has been a...

UUA President Sinkford announced that the 2004 Distinguished Service to Unitarian Universalism Award is granted to the Rev. Robert Nelson West. West, who was not able to be present at GA due to a longstanding family commitment, was elected President of the UUA in 1969 from a field of seven...

Every congregation would like to have a substantial endowment fund. But many never get there. We hate to ask for the money. We’re afraid we won’t know how to manage it well. Or that there might be disagreements about how to use it. There are good reasons to overcome those obstacles, says Marcy...