The name Sing Out Love continues the lineage of our UU hymnals: from Singing the Living Tradition to Singing the Journey to Las voces del camino, Sing Out Loveorients us to this moment in the unfolding story of our faith.
In consultation with the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries (AUUMM), the UUA’s Virtual Hymnal Task Force has been at work since March 2023.
Our Vision: to build a living collection of song resources through an accessible, equitable, online platform grounded in UU values. This virtual hymnal will help Unitarian Universalism live into our prophetic calling as a joyful, liberatory, and anti-oppressive faith.
A video of our November webinar (“Where Do We Start?”) for congregations with minimal or no professional musical leadership, is currently being captioned. It will be posted here before December 10, 2025.
Save the Date! Explore some of Sing Out Love’s treasures with Soren Austenfeld and Rev. Erika Hewitt on the evening of Tuesday, February 24, 2026. Stay tuned to this page (or WorshipWeb’s newsletter) for details as they emerge.
To hear a handful of Sing Out Love’s new songs, some performed by their composers, our General Assembly Hymn Sing (Vimeo). It’s a violation of Sing Out Love’s license agreement with musicians and composers to use this video, or any part of it, in worship services. Thank you for honoring that ethical boundary. This video may be shown in non-worship settings, such as choir rehearsals. The Hymn Singincludes the following hymns:
“Blue Boat Home” by Peter Mayer (as a warm up)
“This Boat” by Laura Zucker
“Hold My Hope” by Ana Hernández
“Love Is at the Center” by Emily Joy Goldberg
“We Are Sunshine in the Streets” by David Burrows
“If There Ain’t Room” by Melissa Jeter and David Strickler
“Pass On the Light” by Clif Hardin and Jan Elicker
“We Will Carry Each Other” by Soren Austenfeld
“Joy in the Morning” by Adam Podd.
How to Submit Your Music
Our Song Selection Team crafted thoughtful Sing Out Love Submission Guidelines (PDF) that center our values of equity and diversity. We’re eager to continue receiving your submissions.
Please read the Guidelines before visiting our Sing Out Love submission form. We’re committed to honoring a progressive stack (in which composers with marginalized identities are moved to the top of the list.
History
In June 2025, our team released Sing Out Love’s demo version to all registered participants at General Assembly and sang many of its new hymns at a joyful hymn sing—which were led by songwriters and composers!
In March 2025, we finalized our subscription models so that the virtual hymnal is sustainable and provides fair compensation for the many musicians whose labor is reflected therein.
In Fall 2024, 136 UU congregations volunteered to beta test our prototype hymnal! We’re grateful for their constructive feedback, which helped our Task Force squash some bugs and make Prototype 2.0 even better.
In Spring 2024, Rev. Erika Hewitt and Camille Hatton held several enthusiastic public gatherings in which we revealed our virtual hymnal prototype; explained its licensing system; presented our tentative plans for beta testing our model; and presented financial details that were emerging.
In January 2024, our Task Force held helpful and exciting Zoom Q&A sessions. The full video recording (Vimeo) is now available.
in 2023, our Task Force outlined all of the complex layers of this project, investigated technical platforms, held focus groups with musicians, and plotted out the course of our work.
