Find out in 14 Questions. PEW Research Center created a quiz to answer the burning question "Am I a Millennial?" See how your point-of-view aligns with that of the Millennial Generation....

Too Many Run-On Sentences Huffington Post. Profiling 32 people serving life sentences and describing the crimes for which they received a life, or double-life, sentence without possibility of parole. Aiken Standard. Report of The Sentencing Project to the United Nations Human Rights Committee...

National Congregations Study (also conducted in 1998 and 2007). From the report, the joint meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association revealed that churches of all types are increasingly diverse and more welcoming than before. The National...

Youth Caucus 2014 Facebook group, the @YouthCaucusGAGeneral Assembly this year, and you should be too! LEARN MORE: Youth Caucus at General Assembly JOIN THE STAFF: http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2013/10/10/we-want-youth-and-adults-too/"… Caucus Staff Applications ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tahoma Unitarian...

Church and beer? Motivation matters! NPR story to which he referred. It was being passed around facebook, a news story titled “http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/11/03/242301642/to-stave-off-decl… Stave Off Decline, Churches Attract New Members with Beer.” Because of the title and the way...

Continuity... and Growth Coming of Age programs that include authoring one’s own statement of belief, would seem to avoid. Yet regardless of the specifics, both Christian and UU youth seem to be rejecting the institutional feel of a faith that does not value their priorities or embrace their...

Information and data to better understand where religion, religious identification and practice are headed in the future. – Ed. INFOGRA… Millennials & Religion. About 28 percent of American adults have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion, or no religion at all -...

Check-out these fun videos and use the wealth of resources offered by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in support of the 2013-2014 Common Read, Behind the Kitchen Door, by Saru Jayaraman.–Ed. Common Read 2014 with these activities: Ask Your...

Choosing religious affiliation matters http…; [2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/unitarian-universalists…; [3] http://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/officers/president/morales/192145.shtm…; [4] I preached a sermon on this dynamic called “The Pilgrims, the Road and the Path”,...

House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner recently expressed tentative interest in bringing this issue to the House Floor for a vote. There is bi-partisan support in both chambers. Polls show that 70% of registered voters want immigration reform. All that’s stopping us is the lack of action on the part...

Tallahassee Unitarian Universalist asks a probing question that enables us to examine how Unitarian Universalist congregations can become more welcoming. Read more at tallahasseeuu.blogspot.comhttp://ow.ly/pVjnCTallahassee Unitarian Universalist.

Marriage-equality is in the way to becoming the norm in American society....

Are We Moving Beyond Religion? http://www…; [2] Putnam, R. D. and Cambpell, D. E. (2010) American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. Pg 84. http://www…; [4] For a good sampling, check out the Unitarian Universalist Association’s page on demographic and...

Carey Nieuwhof argues for eleven things he sees as defining the successful faith organization of tomorrow in this post from his bloghttp://careynieuwhof.com/2013/05/11-traits-of-churches-that-will-impact… Traits of Churches That Will Impact the Future Connexus, where I have the privilege of...

In a changing world, faith and spiritual search remain ...

It seems incongruent to write about a "national" Indigenous People's Day given that the culture and society of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, whose habitation of this land predates its discovery by Europe and control by the United States by hundreds of years, has been overrun to the poin...

Can it be detrimental to the principles of Unitarian Universalist faith when the people who witness for a cause overshadow the cause itself? Pursuing this line of thought, the Rev. Andrew L. Weber suggests we not to lose focus on the issues at hand.–Ed.

The Landscape of Faith Does Not Look as it Used To This brings us to the second point, which is how robust this trend is. Every major poll, including the ones conducted by Putnam and Campbell, the highly-respected Pew Research Center,[8] the General Social Survey,[9] and the American Religious...

Unitarian Universalist Association, I’ve had a chance to review the literature and research on my generation and its unique relationship with religious institutions, and it is clear that responding to the shifts which Millennials (born between the early 1980’s and 2000) are leading in the...

Rev. Erik Wikstrom argues that the head of the congregation could be the "Chief Faith Formation Officer," and solicitshttp://cuc.ca/minister-juggler-provocateur-erik-walker-wikstrom-at-the-…; for one of their annual conferences. Professional Provocateur -- arguably the role I was born to play. So...