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Daniel Gregoire

None of us would be here were it not for those who lived and won a fight that they were not meant to survive.

Continue reading "My Ancestors' Dreams"

Erica Baron

So, friends, let’s practice together. I invite you to engage in some reflection about whether and how you are bringing that individualism into your practice of covenant and what a deeper practice of covenant can make possible for us. 

Continue reading "Practicing Covenant"

Erica Baron

So, friends, let’s practice together. I invite you to engage in some reflection about whether and how you are bringing that individualism into your practice of covenant and what a deeper practice of covenant can make possible for us. 

Continue reading "Practicing Covenant"

Christine Slocum

Part of being in community is noticing what's needed. Part of being in community is doing what is necessary but unclaimed.

Continue reading "Begetting Community"

Erica Shadowsong

One day, I’ll have to care for my mother as she once cared for me. I’m not ready to handle the truth that our relationship must change.

Continue reading "Room for Something New"

Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray calls us to remain mindful of our deep connections at the start of the congregational year. We are connected through our traditions of love and justice, and we are connected in our shared faith as Unitarian Universalists.

Continue reading "A Message From The UUA President: A Season of Ingathering"

Leslie Ahuvah Fails

What once seemed certain is now unpredictable, even dangerous.

Continue reading "The Changing and the Fixed"

Nicole Pressley

Build relationships with communities to make a difference now and in the future.

Continue reading "UU the Vote: All hands on deck"

Susan Frederick-Gray

In this historic and heartbreaking time, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray offers words of affirmation and love as we all find ways to take care of ourselves and our loved ones and to keep showing up for justice.

Continue reading "From The UUA President: Holding One Another In Compassion and Prayer"

While the New England Region staff team’s introduction of the concept and practices of Spiritual Leadership has been enthusiastically received, there’s been some pushback about the one we call “binding to tradition.” Most Unitarian Universalists don’t like the idea of being bound to...

Continue reading "Binding to Tradition:: Such a Messy Practice"

Susan Frederick-Gray

Dear leaders, I hold you all in deep care. As this pandemic continues to spread, it is taking its toll on our country and people. This toll includes the heartbreak and grief for loved ones and strangers who have died and those struggling to recover from COVID-19. As religious communities, we will...

Continue reading "A Message from the UUA President: Practicing Now For A More Just Post-pandemic Society"

Erica Baron

Come, practice with us, and let’s see what’s possible! We are launching a new blog called Tending to Spiritual Leadership, which will share offerings on how we can engage the practices of spiritual leadership to make more things possible.

Continue reading "Practice Makes Possible: An Introduction to the Tending to Spiritual Leadership Blog"

Joshua Eaton

Congregational music programs had to adjust quickly when the coronavirus pandemic forced worship services online. Now many are facing the reality that they might not meet in person again until next spring.

Continue reading "Church music programs find challenges and creativity in move online during pandemic"

Erika A. Hewitt

The most life-giving coping strategy—for me—is to attune to a voice calmer and wiser than mine, and allow that seeking to be its own expression of faith.

Continue reading "Ground Control"

UUA announces the recent hiring of a new director of communications, Lisa Gregory, who will join staff on August 3.

Continue reading "UUA Appoints Lisa Gregory as Communications Director"

Yuri Yamamoto

The assumption that all people remember the same set of events, or enjoy the same set of things, puts enormous burdens of assimilation onto members of marginalized communities.

Continue reading "Minding the Gap"

Christopher L. Walton

UUA’s first online-only General Assembly calls for solidarity with Indigenous communities, supports defunding police, and formalizes human rights investment screen.

Continue reading "Almost 5,000 attend UUA’s 2020 Virtual General Assembly"

Rayla D. Mattson

I often go to bed during this pandemic wondering if my heart can hurt anymore. Then I wake up and see the news and my heartache continues. I wonder what to say to my children. What do I say to my little one, versus what I say to my teens about the state of our country?...

Continue reading "Parenting with Heartbreak"