'Grief is the hard form of caring,' says Malcolm Astley, the father of a murdered teen.

The recent Royal pardon of Alan Turing for - what was at the time - the criminal offense of homosexuality reveals the struggle for equality of treatment before the law of the LGBTQ community is not over – not in Great Britain, nor the United States, nor elsewhere in the world. –Ed. Pardon Should...

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UU congregation at Shelter Rock in Manhasset, New York. More than 140 Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists from twenty-five countries will gather for the event. http://international.blogs.uua.org/files/2013/09/ICUU-Conference-and-Co… program (PDF) will include theme talks, worship services,...

Confounding gender stereotypes with brush and lens. View the entire Transportraits series. Read Lorenzo Triburgo's statementr on the Transportraits series. On Slate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/07/09/lorenzo_triburgo_transport… the Courage of Transgender Men On Huffington Post:...

By feeding others, a congregation in New York nourishes its soul – and makes a difference in its community. We repost this story by DNAinfo New York. – Ed. Soul Food Truck Serves Free Meals to Homeless in Tompkins Sq. Park Middle Collegiate Church on Second Avenue and East Seventh Street, serves...

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, has two and a half decades of experience working at the intersections of sexuality, religion, politics and culture....

I, like many UUs, was both excited and curious to learn about The Sunday Assembly, the latest trend among atheists and agnostics. Have you heard about these British hipster high priests of nonbelief?...

This is an announcement from Shawna Foster, from the Unitarian Universalist Association's If you're a young adult living abroad, we want to hear from you! The International Office is conducting a listening project. What's a listening project?...

“Examining and extending our language gives us a chance to broaden our definition of the word we.” —Rev. Barbara Pescan Being a welcoming and inclusive community means consciously working to find ways to name, honor, and value experiences and identities that are usually minimized or devalued.

Rev. Frank Schaefer will likely lose his ministry and be defrocked by the www.umc.org">United Methodist Church this week. We re-post Rev. Schaefer's explanation of why he will not change his position on marriage equality or his calling or the LGBT community from the Reconciling Ministries Network.

Thanksgiving can be a difficult holiday. Not all family gatherings are harmonious. There might be pressure to prepare “the perfect meal” just like a parent used to make. Then there is that business with Europeans spreading their empire and claiming new lands—even though those lands were...

While PEW quizzes"Are You a Millennial", Susan Katz Miller, in her book Being Both - Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family from www.beacon.org/">Beacon Press, explores how Millennials understand mixing faith traditions differently than others and what that means for the future of...

Where inequality exists dialog is hard. We re-post an excerpt of this opinion piece by White Privilege. Wher… the Love? how white middle-class youth have the privilege to make mistakes others do not. http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2013/10/09/protested-arrested-not-a-hero/…, Arrested – Not a...