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Carol Thomas Cissel

Black Queens saved our democracy. We owe them a great deal.

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Susan Frederick-Gray

UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray offers a prayer on the historic occasion of the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States.

Continue reading "A Prayer for Inauguration Day 2021"

Susan Frederick-Gray

This is been a deeply challenging time for us all. As we rest, reconnect and pray, many of us are also asking, "What can I do?"

Continue reading "From the UUA President: Listening to the Call of Love"

Kristin Grassel Schmidt

Holding people accountable for the impact of their behavior is not revenge; it’s what makes change and growth possible, and no real healing in community can come without it.

Continue reading "Finding Our Way"

The UUA is compelled by events at the U.S. Capitol to call for true accountability and courageous action by national leaders in pursuit of a more just, equitable, multiracial and pluralistic democracy.

Continue reading "Unitarian Universalists Denounce Complicity with Extremists, Call for Courageous Action by National Leaders"

Erin J. Walter

I experience the creative impulse as living just under the surface of the daily grind: tugging; imploring, When do we all get to sing together again?

Continue reading "Keep Singing"

Joe Sullivan

I imagine you, too, saw the unique holiday cards from the incomparable year just completed with messages like “Just say no to 2020,” “OH OH OH,” and “Merry Christmas from a distance.” Just some of the G-rated messages. We might as well laugh. Humor can be one of our more benign coping...

Continue reading "From Powerlessness to Promise"

Tim Atkins

What’s the one word you hope will define your upcoming year?

Continue reading "Transforming the New Year"

Elea Kemler

The stories remind us there is still and always joy in this world, but it usually comes right alongside the struggle.

Continue reading "Open to Joy"

Meck Groot

“Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism,” writes Walidah Imarisha, “we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction. Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another...

Continue reading "The Only Thing More Powerful Than a Story"

Paul S Sawyer

This is a "love saves" story.

Continue reading "Worthy of Beauty"

Susan Frederick-Gray

Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray shares her wishes for all in this holiday season, that we may have time to rest, that we tend to our grief and our joy, and that we make space for spiritual care and renewal.

Continue reading "From The UUA President: In This Holiday Season, May We Simply Be"

Robin Tanner

This year, the Advent season seems particularly seized by a spirit of the expected, the longing.

Continue reading "A Holy Impatience"

Elaine McArdle

Unitarian Universalists monitored polls, practiced de-escalation, and offered water, masks, and music to people waiting to vote.

Continue reading "Unitarian Universalists supported safe, accessible, fair voting on Election Day"

Jake Morrill

The wilderness alongside every moment, sprawling in each direction, holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.

Continue reading "The Eternal, Calling"

Wren Bellavance-Grace

It’s been a hard fall. We made it through a virtual summer after our very first all-virtual General Assembly last June - and here we are already anticipating another all-virtual GA in June of 2021. The election season was both astonishing and surreal. As I write this, many of us are preparing for..

Continue reading "Remembering Our Gifts"

Wren Bellavance-Grace

It’s been a hard fall. We made it through a virtual summer after our very first all-virtual General Assembly last June  - and here we are already anticipating another all-virtual GA in June of 2021. The election season was both astonishing and surreal. As I write this, many of us are preparing for..

Continue reading "Remembering Our Gifts"

Susan Frederick-Gray

My prayer on this Transgender Day of Remembrance is for the senseless acts of transantagonistic violence to end. And that we may all take on the work to disrupt the systems and cultures that perpetuate this violence.

Continue reading "A Prayer for This Transgender Day of Remembrance"

Susan Frederick-Gray

This is a time to remember our collective resilience and ability to protect each other, to defend democracy, and to organize unfailingly for justice, equity and dignity.

Continue reading "A Message From The UUA President: Lean Into What You Love"

Taryn Strauss

We seek blessed assurance through pandemic chaos, relentless loss, and unimaginable stress.

Continue reading "Allowing Chaos"