I recently had a fantastic opportunity to attend a Teaching Tolerance workshop on their new Perspectives for a Diverse America (free) curriculum. Teaching Tolerance was founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center to help reduce prejudice, improve intergroup relations, and support...

By guest blogger Amelia Diehl . -ed I am so grateful to have been able to attend the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice's Grounded and Resilient Organizer’s Workshop Climate Justice Training in Chicago, IL and feel connected again to a community and to a movement. I think I might...

So, lots of folks in the progressive world I inhabit on social media had a lot of opinions about Bernie Sanders went to speak to a crowd about social security and medicare and was interrupted by Black Lives Matter movement the day before the first Unitarian Universalist minister, and a middle cla...

Unitarian Universalists are showing up to commemorate this event that pushed UUs have gathered to be in Ferguson on this anniversary, invited by interfaith organizers. Others marched in their home communities, LGBTQ+first principle is that we believe everyone has inherent worth and dignity, we...

A Day of Civil Disobedience for Social Justice @RevElizabethNUUAUnitarian Universalists, local congregations, and others participated in acts of resistance to mark the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown. This day of resistance was the result of organizing for social justice and change that...

Read the inside story from Youth Caucus 2015 Co-Business Manager Isabelle McCurdy on how the Youth Caucus sponsored Action of Immediate Witness, "Support Black Lives Matter" came to be. When Kara Marler, my Sr....

Guest blogger Yashasvi Janamanchi attended the Unitarian Universalist Association Mul… Leadership School (MLS) this July. This post is an excerpt of Yashi's reflections from the youth-led worship at his home congregation of Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church. -ed. While I was at MLS, I...

Know it to Defeat it By Aija Jansone The Young Adult program at Westside Unitarian Universalist in Fort Worth, TexasDallas-Fort Worth area. The program started with a 6 month series focused on the various facets of privil…; and oppression…;, …;, classreligionsexualityracismUnitarian...

Guest blogger Sunshine Alvarez attended the Unitarian Universalist Association Mul… Leadership School this July. Sunshine belongs to the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. -ed. On July 10th, I had the opportunity to attend a Multicultural Leadership School (MLS) in Boston, Massachusetts...

UU young adult activist suspends their body to slow arctic oil drilling "This is a personal issue for me because of my faith; I'm actually a Unitarian Universalist seminarian," begins Elizabeth Mount explaining why they're willing to Willamette River in Portland, Oregon....

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....

Kenny Wiley responds to #IfIDieInPoliceCustody offering, "We are all gifted, and we are all flawed. I can speak and write well, and I also have depression and let friends and family down all the time. I should not need to be perfect in order to matter. Sandra Bland was not perfect, and she...

AWESOME CONFERENCE SEEKS YOUTH DEAN! Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO) Intergeneratio… Spring Seminar! The Intergenerational Spring Seminar is an opportunity for youth and adults to collaboratively engage on an issue of global concern and learn how to take action. The theme of...

kristen.psaki@gmail.com@kristenpsakiFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....

I’ve Unitarian Universalism is a both/and faith. Both/and can be hard. It’s difficult to feel two emotions at once, to hold two positions at once, to affirm multiple realities at once. But if anyone can do it, I believe that UUs can. Friday June 26th 2015 was surely a both/and day. It was both...

This week: General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association pas… an Action of Immediate Witness in support of the Black Lives Matter movement calling for “police reform and prison abolition, which seeks to replace the current prison system with a system that is more just and...

ecortez.neavel@gmail.com@ecortez_neavelFind more stories of #LivingUU here. The authors of #Living UU are Beth Neavel-Cortez and Kristen Psaki. Beth is a free-lance journalist based in Austin, Texas. She is a life long Unitarian Universalist who knows that story-telling is what saves us....