Learn about the 2023–2024 UU Common Read, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg.

Are you looking for the unexpected joy in your community?

It’s AUGUST. It’s HOT. Here in Washington DC, the air is like sticky soup. August is when people get out of town or they hibernate in the air conditioning or by the pool.

Treating zoom participants equitably and caringly in multiplatform worship is an expression of love and justice that can transform the community. Includes discussion questions for a self-led workshop.

This is a story of two moments online and how some of the ways we white UU’s show up can cause harm.I’m writing this now because General Assembly is around the corner ...

Both in-reach and outreach are important in our congregations, but we need to find the right balance between the two.

It’s a common question right now. It’s not just your congregation! What can congregational life look like for the children and families attending now?

Disability advocates remind us that multiplatform worship in real time, with the chance for some interaction, creates a meaningful experience for those participating online.

What a peculiar phase of Pandemic Church we are in….although I guess that can be said about every chapter we’ve experienced! This phase may well be called Dipping the Toe.

Important for people to ‘feel a sense of agency, empowerment, and choice.’

Online moments of radical inclusion, connection, and creativity shared as a litany.

The safety I once perceived was because I did not have the complete perspective.

Resources to give you frameworks, starting points, tips and tools to help your congregation serve its mission in today's environment of virtual and in-person connection. 

I am tired. Are you tired? I'm tired and cranky and just want all of this craziness to stop.

What is some of the inner work we need to do for the deep spiritual practice of inclusion?

There are youth here. And young adults. And adults. Children. We’re all here. None of us solely the future or the past. All of us in the present. We are all bridging tonight. Into a world where there are 8 principles of Unitarian Universalism and we live them all in our daily lives.

When I think about covenant making, I think of Kintsugi.

Back in 1999, each June my family of four would load up our van with a tent, sleeping bags, camp stove, dishes, food and more and head out for wherever that year's General Assembly was being held....

This video is a portion of the Conversations with Leaders: Dual Platform Future for All Ages webinar that was offered in April. In this video, Nancy Combs-Morgan, Mid-America Congregational Life Staff talks about inclusive congregations and how that needs to be the focus as we plan for the future.