Spring/Summer 2013 Youth Ministry Updates Webinar for Religious Educators, Youth Advisors, and Youth Join us for an hour webinar on Wednesday, February 27th at 2:00 pm Eastern -OR- 8:00 pm Eastern for new developments in youth ministry available this spring and summer....

“The military is widely understood to be the most racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse institution in the U.S.", notes The Rev. Sarah Lammert, director of Ministries and Faith Development for the Unitarian Universalist Association, and president-elect of the National Conference of...

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists. Join other UU young adults for this mini climate justice training and organizing workshop. We will explore how UU values call us to ecological justice work: How does the climate crisis intersect with race and class? How are we connected to...

Facebook.com/Campus UUs, or send Kayla an email at ya-cm@uua.org with your ideas, thoughts and vote! Current options online (though folks might have added some since time of post): Spiritually Alive, Radically Inclusive & Justice Centered (current slogan) Center, Connect, Create A radically...

Share your own resolution with the Standing on the Side of Love campaign http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1272/p/salsa/web/questionnaire/pub… clicking here!

Okay, okay, so "You Light My Chalice" (from UU Media Collaborative Works) isn't exactly setting the world on fire with its message of social justice... But artwork - a song, a drawing, a video, even a work of prose - can resonate in deeper ways that any other form of protest can....

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federal tipped minimum wage, and has been since 1991. Anything else they make during the course of their shifts comes from tips. Until I worked in a restaurant over a summer break, I really didn't realize this. My assumption had been that tips were thanks for above and beyond service. But in...

Two years ago, I attended a workshop at General Assembly with a panel people who had ancestors that had owned slaves. It was a moving experience to hear these folks grapple with the notion of the terrible deeds of their kin from centuries past. The moment that most sticks in my memory is when...

Write your own prayer, mantra or meditation. They can take many forms. Some may be addressed to a deity or to an idea. Others may be requests for guidance, expressions of gratitude, or an expression of your thoughts, offered not to anyone in particular, but put out into the world....

Let’s face it: NOBODY likes Valentine’s Day. It really sucks. It’s so commercial and that’s hard if you’re broke. It’s forced affection - what if you’ve just started dating someone new? Or are in a relationship that isn’t going well – do you break up before and be the evil ex who...

First Parish in Cambridge, in Cambridge, MA, to hear Intern Minister Kenny Wiley preach a sermon titled "Two Black Kids: A Unitarian Universalist Story." I went primarily because I know both of the "Black Kids" in the sermon....

Uncommon Community: One Congregation’s Work With Prisoners” by John Speer can help you envision what that work might look like. Black and Pink, an organization whose Church of the Larger Fellowship offers a le… ministry that uses CLF as the "pass-through" for letters to prisoner-members, most...

www.mcso.org">"Tent City" detention center, I felt we had found the perfect symbol for what is wrong with our immigration system: a complex that is poorly designed, ad hoc, militarized, dehumanizing and humiliating. The heat was in the triple digits even though it was after sundown, and as our...

Boy Scouts of America Defer Policy Change Decision to May....

General Assembly in 2012 was focused on our commitments to justice and service. It culminated in a protest against the Maricopa County's "http://blogs.uuworld.org/ga/2012/06/24/thousands-wage-peaceful-protest-… city jail," and Rev....

First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia. In fact, the entire UUA Board came down to First Church for discussion and an open mic coffeehouse. It was just a lovely time. First Church is an urban, gothic church in downtown Philadelphia. And though it proudly proclaims its heritage dating back to its...

Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) which allows U.S. citizens or permanent residents to sponsor their same-sex partner for immigration. The IEAF puts forward many pragmatic arguments for ending this practice, pointing out that many couples leave the United States for more progressive countries,...

Transgender Information and Resources: Transg… Basics- in video! Transgender 101: Identity, Welcome, and Resources: A great resource from the UUA, including tips for being more welcoming of trans people for congregations and individuals, and a great vocabulary list. TransfaithThe Human Rights...

submit photos via email to our Flickr page). Action for Families: Brainstorm with your child: what does every person have in common with every other person? Can you come up with ten ways they are the same? 20? 100? Featured Organization: -...