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This election season, we encourage you to vote your values. Check out seven questions based on Unitarian Universalist seven Principles to ask candidates when choosing who will get your vote. Read More...Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | May 3, 2016 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Principles and Purposes, Voting RightsPage/Article -
Through a series of personal essays, the Rev. Nathan Walker offers readers a creative way to develop empathetic responses in personal or cultural conflicts. In this heated election season, this book is a must-read for us all. Read More...Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | April 13, 2016 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Compassion, Publications, Voting RightsPage/Article -
This election season, we encourage you to vote your values. Check out seven questions based on Unitarian Universalist seven Principles to ask candidates when choosing who will get your vote.Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | April 13, 2016 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Election ReformPage/Article
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Massachusetts’s highest court is hearing a case brought by a Catholic shrine against a town that assessed property taxes on the “non-religious” portions of the shrine.By Christopher L. Walton | April 5, 2016 | From UU WorldTagged as: Religion, Religious & Civil Liberties, Religious PluralismPage/Article
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Today is Good Friday, a day where those in the Christian tradition tell the story of Jesus' trial and crucifixion, his brutal death at the hands of an Empire that crucified routinely as one means of maintaining their power. This story about Jesus' death is about one particular person, but as...By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | March 25, 2016 | From Issues and TrendsTagged as: Christianity, Good Friday, Grief, Nourishing the Spirit, Religion, Religious Pluralism, Secular, Spiritual Practice, WorshipPage/Article
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The Unitarian Universalist Association and the Boy Scouts of America renew their relationship after a years-long split over gay scouts and God.By Joshua Eaton | March 24, 2016 | From UU WorldTagged as: LGBTQ Issues, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article -
On March 24, 2016, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Boy Scouts of America signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding designed to provide guidance to UU congregations who wish to charter Scouting units.The full text of the Memorandum of Understanding reads:Whereas, the Unitarian...Utility | March 14, 2016Tagged as: Children's Faith Development, Faith Development, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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Bends the Arc Toward Justice... New Hampshire(NH) Public Radio(NHPR) seems unaware some days that there is anything else happening in the world, and the internet creepily knows we are in NH and presents campaign ads whenever it gets the chance. There is no missing the fact that, New Hampshire...By Elizabeth Nguyen | February 5, 2016 | From Issues and TrendsTagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Equity, Growth, Homecoming / Ingathering, News, Nourishing the Spirit, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, Voting Rights, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)Page/Article -
In the new Beacon Press book, The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber offers an inspiring blueprint for community activism. Get Rev. Barber's 14 steps for building a movement in this Beacon Broadside post.Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | January 19, 2016 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Racial Justice, Voting RightsPage/Article -
How would your congregation respond if a bomb threat forced you to shorten the post-service reception welcoming new members and re-locate child care for the stewardship dinner that evening?...November 13, 2015 | From Call and ResponseTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Social Justice, UU HistoryPage/Article -
‘In North Carolina, we’re showing once again that when people of different faiths and colors come together and demand change from a moral perspective, it touches the conscience of a nation.’Feature | By William J. Barber II | November 1, 2015 | From UU WorldTagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Politics, Voting RightsPage/Article -
UUA President the Rev. Peter Morales issued a statement following the news of the shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College: "I am saddened and sickened to hear of the shooting at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon....Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | October 2, 2015 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, GriefPage/Article -
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson is the 2015-16 UUA Common Read. This beautifully written book looks closely at the life stories and circumstances of people who have been sentenced to die at the hands of the state or to live out their lives in prison. The author...By Gail Forsyth-Vail | October 1, 2015 | From Call and ResponseTagged as: Due Process & Civil Liberties, Racial Justice, Social JusticePage/Article -
Class-action lawsuit says the New Orleans court system preys on poor people for funds, jails them indefinitely when they can’t pay.By Elaine McArdle | September 18, 2015 | From UU WorldTagged as: Criminal Justice, Due Process & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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Hundreds of Unitarian Universalists join North Carolina march challenging restrictive voting laws.By Elaine McArdle | July 31, 2015 | From UU WorldTagged as: Congregational Action, Voting RightsPage/Article -
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson speaks to justice, mercy, and compassion, themes of concern to us as Unitarian Universalists and as human beings. Read More...Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | July 30, 2015 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Beliefs & Principles, Criminal JusticePage/Article -
UUA President Peter Morales applauds policy change allowing Boy Scout chartering organizations to welcome gay adult leaders.By Christopher L. Walton | July 28, 2015 | From UU WorldTagged as: Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article
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The Rev. Peter Morales issued the following statement reacting to the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) recent policy change: “I applaud the Boy Scouts of America for amending its adult leadership standards policy to include gay scout leaders. The development of a more inclusive BSA will not only...Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | July 23, 2015 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: LGBTQ Welcome & Equality, Religious & Civil LibertiesPage/Article -
On July 13, thousands of people including hundreds of Unitarian Universalists wearing Standing on the Side of Love t-shirts marched in Winston-Salem, NC, in support of overturning a vicious voter suppression law that was being argued just down the street inside a federal courthouse in the case N.C.Press Release | By Unitarian Universalist Association | July 15, 2015 | From Home Page StoryTagged as: Voting RightsPage/Article -
After fifty years, the families and friends of three civil rights martyrs return to Selma, still weighing the price they had to pay.By Amy K. Nelson | May 14, 2015 | From UU WorldTagged as: Racial Justice, Sacrifice, UU History, Voting RightsPage/Article