Today the barrier against openly identifying as LGBTQ in professional sports in the United States fell when a current player, twelve-year veteran of the National Basketball Association affirmed his homosexual identity....

I remember reading that Natalia Averett would be representing the Joseph Priestly district on the UUA Board of Trustees. I first met Natalia at the UUA’s Multicul… Leadership School in 2010. Recently, I worked with Sana Saeed, a co-author of Building Beloved Community, a program on...

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This story is re-posted from Democracy Now. - Ed. UU Tim DeChristopher, Bidder 70 In a Democracy Now! exclusive on Earth Day, climate change activist Tim DeChristopher joins us for his first interview since being released from federal custody after serving 21 months in detention....

UUA President decries Half-measure proposed by BSA Board The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has proposed modifying its membership rules to the more inclusive position of not discriminating against youth membership on the basis of sexual orientation or preference. The language of the Boy Scouts of...

This is a collection of resources developed by the UUA, Unitarian Universalists and others to help minister and heal in the aftermath of trauma. – Ed. Overcome Trauma with Compassion and Love UUAprocess trauma, disaster, and violence from the UUA Resource Development Office. The Unitarian...

Building the World We Dream About for Young Adults offers a process by which young adults can engage in honest and open conversations about race.

streamed here. Morales and Small share their experience of the growth of UUism in the face of the decline of other organized religions. From the CBS press release: While we live in the most religiously diverse country in the world, attitudes towards religion and spirituality are in the midst of...

NFL Meets With Gay Rights Groups (Huffington Post) WASHINGTON -- The National Football League met with LGBT rights groups last week about the push to end homophobia in sports, at a time when came out as gay in 2012 after he was done playing professional football, participated as well....

LGBT in Religious Communities: A Faith and Human Rights Discussion … class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8845" alt="UU_UNO_Spring_Conf_13" src=" The panel discussion on LGBT in Religious Communities, organized as part of the UU-UNO 2013 Spring Seminar, "Sex, Love and Violence: Sexual Orientatio...

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The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) has published as a graphic potential outcomes of the United States Supreme Court on Prop 8 and www.marriageequality.org/">Marriage Equality. A decision is expected from the Court by the end of June....

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Or, how I realized that copying letters for Amnesty International was a spiritual discipline.

By our silence, by our willingness to compromise principle… by our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing...

Take the lead, not the lead. Summer Leadership Schools are a great opportunity to build your leadership skills, explore your spirituality and grow as a Unitarian Universalist youth. But don’t just take my word for it. The Central East Regional Group recently shared this video to promote their two...