Dear Friends,J… the Move Sunday. This is a chance for us to celebrate our Unitarian Universalist community and to strengthen our connections. If you haven’t already, I invite your congregation to sign up. Our official Join the Move Sunday is October 6, 2013, but you can hold this service any day...

Who knew such a little book could say so much? Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide and find other resources about Unitarian Universalism or for new UU's at the UUA Bookstore.

Reading Makes Doing Happen Unitarian Universalist Association Common Read in 2010, the program has focused on big issues of our times, providing a venue and framework for intentional reflection and work on issues of injustice through the prism of Unitarian Universalist principles and sources of...

The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Common Read enters its fourth year of intentional group read and discussion on topics central to Unitarian Universalist principlesbeliefsBehind the Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman....

Share What's Special! Visit the CGUUS website for information on schedule, venue, cost, fundraising opportunities and to REGISTER. http://cguus.org/...

Congregations and groups across the country will soon be meeting recently bridged young adults moving into their area. Youth who registered for the http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2013/05/02/be-a-bridge-keeper-for-youth-f… Connections program last spring have now moved on from high school and are...

We share this reflection on the value of openness and trust in the face of uncertainty borne upon past experience by the Rev. Erik Wikstrom from his blog, A Minister's Musings. Follow Rev. Wikstrom on his blog. – Ed. http://a-ministers-musings.blogspot.com/2013/08/to-believe-or-not-to-be…...

Teaching with the Tools. distance learning course from October 2013 through May 2014 on using Social Media to conduct ministry. Curriculum begins October 1, 2013. Meeting time is 1:00 – 3:00 pm (Eastern Time). The course is divided into two learning formats: Large group learning (1-­3 PM, ET,...

DoJ vs Mass Incarceration Huffington Post: The Justice Department will avoid charging certain low-level and nonviolent drug offenders with crimes that carry mandatory minimums, Attorney General Eric Holder will announce Monday....

The 4th Amendment vs Mass-Incarceration Huffington Post. Other Ways to Resist the Policy of Mass-Incarceration – The New Jim Crow & Mass Incarceration on UUA.org https://www.facebook.com/groups/uusresistingnewjimcrow/?hc_location=str… Resisting New Jim Crow & Mass Incarceration Facebook Group...

We re-post an excerpt of this story by Christine from her blog At the Super Bowl, some of us were having conversations about what constitutes becoming “middle age”. It was mostly folks from my church’s Young Adult group in attendance. My husband and I were on the young end of the age...

We re-post a hypertext annotated edition of an opinion by Rachel Held Evans from her blog at Belief Blog on cnn.com Opinion by Rachel Held Evans At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial. I wrote my first essay with a pen and paper, but by the time I graduated from college, I owned a cell phone and...

We re-post an excerpt of this reflection by Sarah Caine from Le Flame.– Ed. here.

We re-post this article from Tufts Now. –Ed. Tapping into Tufts' Spiritual Heritage Rev. Gregory McGonigle, a Unitarian minister with a focus on "lived religion," begins July 1 as the new university chaplain “When I think about Tufts’ Universalist heritage, I think about Tufts’ commitments...

This story about the Youth Group at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Flint (Michigan) by Chris Aldridge (caldridg@mlive.c…; comes to us from the MLive newsite. – Ed. Youth Group Aims to Change World, 2-Bucks at a Time FLINT, MI – Armed with a meager $2 each, junior and senior high...

The Root. Standing On the Side of Love. … and George: A Tale of Two Americas from emergent church leader Brian McLaren on theReligion Dispatches blog. New York Times. Chicago Tribune. Black Voices Page of the Huffington Post. National Memo. Resources to take action: NAACPMove On.org. … for...

Affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person Hi Family, It has been two days since George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the murder of Trayvon Martin. As I read social media and listen to commentators on TV give their opinions, I knew that I would have to write a pastoral...

Goody Clancy, the architects selected for the design of the new headquarters offices of the Unitarian Universalist Association at 24 Farnsworth Street in Boston, have created a "blink exercise" to help inform what the interior to look and feel like. Every Unitarian Universalist is invited to...