UU World, the magazine of the Unitarian Universalist Association, celebrates liberal religion and the people it inspires. Meet extraordinary individuals, see how Unitarian Universalist communities put their values into action, and explore the ideas and traditions that ground them.
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Karen Uhlenbeck, a Unitarian Universalist, made history this year when she became the first woman to win the prestigious Abel Prize for mathematics.
By Andrea Dulanto | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Science, Women -
A congregation fought—and won—a three-year battle to install solar panels on its historic building.
By Heather Beasley Doyle | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Climate & Environmental Justice, Environment -
What delights me in watercolor is ‘the moment of magic,’ when water touches pigment and flows with a transparent life of its own.
By Anne Cohen | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Arts & Music, Nature, Spiritual Practice -
As Unitarian Universalists, our journey is to transform the big and the small, to transform ourselves, and to transform the world.
By Elizabeth Nguyen | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Forgiveness, Justice, Politics, Reconciliation, Spiritual Practice, UU Theology -
We need to stop banishing embodiment from our worship.
By Takiyah Nur Amin | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Arts & Music, Body, Multiculturalism, Worship -
Three recent books examine fascism as a contemporary phenomenon.
By Doug Muder | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Democracy, Governance, Justice, Politics, Power -
The Church of the Larger Fellowship’s Worthy Now Prison Ministry serves nearly 1,000 people in prison.
By Kris Willcox | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Criminal Justice -
New from the UUA: 12-session training program for congregational boards.
By Christopher L. Walton | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Governance, Leadership, Leadership Development -
If our justice work does not emerge from the moral and spiritual value of love, in the end it will reinforce practices of domination and violence, just in new forms.
By Susan Frederick-Gray | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Compassion, Justice, Love -
Simply by existing, it serves many others. For human beings, the work of the bodhisattva is a path of kindness, the choice to serve others as a way of life.
Feature | By Stephanie Kaza | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Environment, Kindness, Nature, Sacrifice, Salvation, Spiritual Practice