When Dr. Uhlenbeck found out she’d won, she was leaving her Unitarian Universalist Church when she received a text message from a colleague telling her to look out for a call from Norway. “I pressed the button and called [the Abel committee] back and they told me I’d won—and I had to sit down,” Dr. […]
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It is a sad day when people who are otherwise good human beings are in fear of our government due to arbitrary laws that are designed to protect the privilege of one group of people over the welfare of others. Are the controls in place reasonable? Who gets to decide what immigration laws are reasonable?
Deane Oliva and other clergy members, there as part of the Charlottesville Clergy Congregate initiative, immediately formed human walls Aug. 12 around the victims of a speeding car that had plowed into them until help arrived. “We formed screens around the injured people – they couldn’t breathe,” said Oliva, an affiliate minister at the Unitarian
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“It’s time for us to spread love in our community,” said the Rev. Michelle LaGrave, a pastor at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Decatur. Read the full article: Macon County residents gather to ‘spread love,’ show solidarity with Charlottesville
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By Julie Akins For The Tidings Three parking spaces sit empty but numbered and ready for so called “car campers” behind the Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship church at 87 Fourth St., Ashland, Oregon. They are next to a small vegetable garden and a locked portable toilet. These spaces are for people who live in
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The handmade card that Hisham Yacout held in his hands was nothing fancy, just a red lace heart pasted on pink construction paper, but it meant a lot to him. Hisham, 14, attends the Islamic Center of Macon. The card came from about 25 children of the High Street Unitarian Universalist Church of Macon, as
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Since this site is about what Unitarian Universalists Do, I’ve pulled in as many news stories as I can from many sources (list too long to enumerate!). This was inspired by, and includes content from UUpdates – along with a good bit of information from other sources. Many retired or dormant sites are included, with the idea
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The Washington Post: Unitarian Universalists helped start Thanksgiving. Now they have second thoughts. By Julie Zauzmer November 23 at 2:29 PM Most Americans see Thanksgiving as a celebration of their national roots — and few are so tied to the holiday as Unitarian Universalists. Many of the churches established by the Pilgrims and other early
From Dear Abby column, January 23, 2016: Lapsed Christian Misses Church, but Not Religion DEAR ABBY: I was raised in the Christian faith by my pastor parents. As I reached my early teens, I realized that those beliefs didn’t really fit, and I gradually stopped attending church. I stayed away all through college. My time
