I love to play Sims. In Sims 3, you sometimes find an Unknown Seed. If you have enough gardening skills, your Sims can plant the seed and see what grows. It might be a money tree! In real life, we also plant seeds without knowing what they will ultimately become. In 2012, I facilitated a...

Ending War – Honoring the Principled Warrior Unitarian Universalism (UU) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) to the military is complex and as lengthy as the history of the United States. While the UUA and Unitarian Universalism is generally pacifist, UUs have and do serve in the...

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Plaintiffs Include UU Congregations Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations in North Carolina (www.puuc.org/">Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church, Charlotte and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville) have joined the suit against the state of North Carolina led by the...

Unitarian Universalists Welcome Them welcoming faith, and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) has a long history of fighting for the rights of the LGBTQ community. Finally, other religions are moving to accept LGBTQ members in their faith. The FirstThirdPrinciplesWilliam Saleton reports...

Young Adult Spiritual Activists Sought Union Theological Seminary (Union) in New York, New York was founded in 1836 on the vision of centering theological education and ministerial training in an urban context so that academic excellence and personal faith might respond to the needs of the city....

The Math Adds Up – the Politics Still Don't The Federal Minimum Wage has not risen since 2009 although the Cost of Living (COL) in the United States has increased by 10% over the same period. Studies show that in real terms the purchasing power of the Middle Class has decreased since 1970...

Ending It Isn't a Game Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling have excited outrage from all quarters, including the most expensive fine the National Basketball Association (NBA) can levy, banning Sterling from attending any NBA events or facilities and determining how to force him to sell his...

Invented by a Unitarian—Evolved by the UUA When Unitarian Julia Ward Howe founded Mother's Day for Peace in the 1870's as an antiwar rallying cry she probably didn't imagine Anna Jarvis' touching memorial to her mother—and the countless sappy cards it has bequeathedUnitarian Universalist...

Unitarian Universalism: Principled Past – Progressive Future The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) of today remains very much influenced by the choice of Unitarian Universalists (UU) to answer Dr. Martin Luther King's call and put UU beliefs and Principles on the front line in the struggle...

Rainbow America By Amanda Froelich on the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) promotes racial justice and multicultural ministries and multiculturalism and anti-racism for youth http://www.trueactivist.com/this-is-what-americans-will-look-like-by-20… the story and see more images of our...

Equal in India Supreme Court of India handed down its decision mandating a third gender category and full legal and civil-rights for the transgendered population of India on April 15, 2014. Learn how the Unitarian Universalist Association supports equality and fairness for all people.

Unitarian Universalism welcomes the Transgendered and supports Transgendered equality. Learn how the UUA persuaded Verizon to protect transgendered workers. Excerpted from the essay in Ivan E. Coyote's book on Slate.com: I don’t see cisgendered women who want to feel safe in a public washroom as...

From Cradle to Incarceration Sonali Kolhatkar in her post, "Studies Confirm the Dehumanization of Black Children and the ‘Preschool-to-Prison Pipeline’", first published on Commondreams.org13 percent of all Americans, nearly 50% of prison inmates are black and that their exclusion from society...

Ramon Selove and his wife, Shellie Selove, are Our Whole Lives sexuality education facilitator trainers. They are members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Shenandoah Valley (VA)....

Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), Honey Maid literally turned the words of their critics against them to remind them of a deeper message. http://www.businessinsider.com/honey-maid-wholesome-love-response-2014-… this account in images on Business Insider. Learn about Marriage Equality and...

On March 13 Boston Mobilization, YMORE, Unitarian Universalist Religious Professionals of Color and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) participated in an action of public witness for raisong the minimum wage in Massachusetts. The following is an eye-witness account of the event.–Ed.

Ultimate Courageous Love Ku Klux Klan. (One of whom was a paid F.B.I. informant, provoking a c… of disinformation attacking Viola Luizzo, mostly based upon her gender and choice to absent herself from her family and join the cause in Alabama.) Though not remembered nor celebrated as well as other...