Elaine McArdle
Bylaws as a whole, Article II, and governance top the list of priorities.
Elaine McArdle
Bylaws as a whole, Article II, and governance top the list of priorities.
The rights of the transgender community and trans children are under attack, with a record number of anti-trans bills proposed in state legislatures across the country. Watch the testimony of the mother of a trans child fighting for the rights of trans families.
Jeff Milchen
As threats to democracy grow, weβre determined to make 2022 the year love and justice regain the upper hand.
Nonpartisan Civic Engagement Initiative Will Focus on Strengthening Democracy, Organizing for Justice and Accountability
Elaine McArdle
Associationβs next chief executive and spiritual leader to be elected at General Assembly 2023
In response to the outpouring of concern, the UUA shares the most up-to-date information on how UUs in this country and around the world are responding and amplify the ways that we can all help.
Resources and compassion are needed to expand our care not just to those in Ukraine but in other parts of the world.
Now more than ever it is important for UUs to live their values by supporting the trans community.
Jim Smith
Florida'sΒ Agricultural Department routinely grants burning permits when the wind blows toward the poor but does not allow burning when the wind blows toward the affluent communities.
We often miss how far weβve progressed unless we stop to look back and count our blessings.
Dayton gathering callsΒ for Biden Administration to shut down detention centers, end deportations, and release all people in immigration detention.
Bruce Knotts
If Russia abstainedβas Article 27 of the UN Charter requiresβthe resolution would have passed.
Implementing unsafe standards in communities is harmful to trans and non-binary youth and encourages prejudice and violence.
Bruce Knotts
Russiaβs invasion of Ukraine reminds us that peace, justice, and human rights are linked and interdependent.
Jeff Milchen
An effective tool exists to minimize the chance of illegitimate votesβthose who fail to embrace it show professed concerns about voter fraud are false.
Bruce Knotts
Human rights defendersβespecially women and LGBTQ+ peopleβcan suffer harsh consequences in their home countries for working with the United Nations.
Jeff Milchen
Our personal transportation choices matter, but significant emission reductions must also involve large-scale institutional change.
Susan Lawrence
Zach Norris, the author of this year's UU common read, challenges our notions of safety, promoting a culture of care.
We see a historical pattern that puts everyone in the world in danger. To obtain a safe and dignified life, we need to foster trust, mutual support, and reliance on science.
Roger Santodomingo, Bruce Knotts
An interview with Bruce Knotts, director of the Unitarian Universalist Office at the United Nations and new UU World columnist.
Reasonable people disagree on appropriate levels of immigration, but to have substantive debate, we must refute racist scapegoating and tactics of dehumanization.Β
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting. In an interview with Marianne Schnall the master explained how meditation can help us.
While many corporations offer feel-good commercials promoting multiculturalism and equality, their political arms (like the Chamber of Commerce) and political investments perpetuate the dominance of wealth over our elections and the public interest.
Because opposition to reproductive rights is so often presented as religious, UUs have a special opportunity to present faith-based arguments for reproductive justice.
Roger Santodomingo, Jeff Milchen
This week, we introduce Jeff Milchen: kayaker, democracy activist, and new UU World columnist.
Statement by the Unitarian Universalist Association on the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol
VIDEO |Β Over 120 Unitarian Universalists participate in Poor Peopleβs Campaign Moral March
We need a new theology of darknessβa new way to relate to the darkness, blackness, and brownness that surrounds us.
However you celebrate, holidays and rituals are an invitation for reflection. They remind us of our past, and they also invite us to be attentive to the present moment.
I am a college student, but more urgently, I am a young Unitarian Universalist working to save my future.
As the Delta variant complicates plans for a return to in-person worship, congregations continue to explore a variety of models for being in community.
There is great healing and sustaining power in our faith, even if the ways we gather look different than before.Β Β Β
Five central Illinois congregations collaborate, aided by a new UUA study/action guide.
Financial contributions from GA participants make significant change possible: a look at the work of three recent recipients.
Elaine McArdle, Sonja L. Cohen
UUAβs second online-only General Assembly focuses on dismantling white supremacy and systemic racism.
Filipino composer and music director at UU Community Church of Santa Monica, California, provides creative direction for UUA General Assembly 2021.
UUAβs second all-virtual General Assembly is focused on improving user experience and providing more opportunities for interaction.
One hundred years after the violent destruction of a prosperous Black neighborhood, a coalition of faith communities is building support for reparations.
Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealedβand how we can move forward.