It's time to decide what kind of world we want to live in and it’s time to decide what we are willing to do to get it.

It’s AUGUST. It’s HOT. Here in Washington DC, the air is like sticky soup. August is when people get out of town or they hibernate in the air conditioning or by the pool.

Our mandate as Unitarian Universalists is to build Beloved Community in our congregations, and learning to draw our circles of welcome wider and wider is a growth opportunity for our churches.

January 2022 is a time to simplify. Your regional staff have been saying “now is the time for easy programs” for months now. This month we mean it more than ever. We don’t know how this omicron surge will impact every congregation, of course, but the very high case numbers mean we’re all...