Two Unitarian Universalist ministers work together as prison chaplains in Oregon’s only women’s prison. https://www.uuworld.org/articles/first-principle-prisons …

The Rev. Marta I. Valentín, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford, Massachusetts, delivers the Meditation of My Heart at the Sunday worship at #uuaga. "This turning that should have happened fifty years ago is our great collective call now."pic.twitter.com/KLIHTadbuR

Cheri Taylor and the Rev. Lauren Smith of the UUA's Stewardship and Development team celebrate the completion of the Promise and Practice of Our Faith Campaign to support @BlackLivesUU, with BLUU leaders Rev. Mykal Slack and Leslie Mac! #uuagapic.twitter.com/LBYpcgZlyB

NPR has identified a fourth assailant in the 1965 attack that fatally injured Unitarian Universalist minister James Reeb in Selma, Alabama. William Portwood acknowledged that he joined the attack. NPR revisited the case in its #WhiteLiesPodcast. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/18/733401736/npr-identifies-fourth-attacker-in-civil-rights-era-cold-case …

Frederick-Gray announces that UU organizations and individuals have pledged $4.3 million for the fundraising campaign to support @BlackLivesUU. The UUA is fulfilling its promise of $5 million for BLUU at this #uuaga. https://www.uua.org/giving/areas-support/funds/promise-and-practice …

The local host congregation, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, leads the parade of banners from congregations and affiliated organizations. #uuagapic.twitter.com/bSWiwEmbud

The 2019 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association is starting now. Watch the Opening Ceremony live: https://youtu.be/MROYpsmkiN4  #uuaga

Can't wait to see the new old place! (Fun fact: the only surviving 17th-century Puritan meetinghouse in North America is home today to a vibrant Unitarian Universalist congregation.) https://twitter.com/OldShipChurch/status/1136274387622137857 …

After 598 days in sanctuary at a Unitarian Universalist church in Meriden CT, Sujitno Sajuti and his wife Dahlia will leave the church today with an assurance from ICE that it is no longer seeking to deport them. http://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Meriden/Meriden-News/leave-church.html …

250 LGBTQ teens & young adults from 35 high schools in MA and RI celebrated with friends old and new at the Tenth Annual Born This Way Prom on April 26, hosted by Channing Memorial Church, a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Newport. https://www.uuworld.org/articles/tenth-born-way-prom …

From the archives: Darcy Baxter celebrates Unitarian Universalist support for abortion rights, but explains why we need to join the movement for reproductive justice. https://www.uuworld.org/articles/what-is-reproductive-justice …pic.twitter.com/ocp2YEBHAU

The Washington Post profiles Leroy Moton, the 19-year-old Selma voting rights activist who survived the KKK's murder of Unitarian Universalist Viola Liuzzo in 1965. The night of Liuzzo’s slaying “never leaves me,” he says. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/27/they-killed-white-woman-fifty-four-years-later-leroy-moton-looks-back-killing-that-changed-civil-rights-movement-forever/?utm_term=.e3e42d9535dc …

The Unitarian Universalist Area Church in Sherborn, Massachusetts, @UUACSherborn remembers the victims of last year's school massacre in Parkland, Florida. https://www.wcvb.com/article/17-empty-desks-sherborn-church-turns-lawn-into-memorial-to-parkland-school-shooting-victims/26309834 …

The Rev. Clark Olsen, a Unitarian Universalist minister who survived the attack that killed James Reeb in the civil rights struggle in Selma in 1965, died on MLK Day, age 85. https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/01/22/clark-olsen-asheville-boston-civil-rights-dead-85-obituary-unitarian-reverend/2644701002/?fbclid=IwAR2x2J-nOSVU4ENAa2schMRdeBU2gCccMtimEGREinCGYDLKqC7Xy9viPVI …

Unitarian Universalist leaders and visionaries, don't let the holidays deter you from making time to propose a General Assembly program. Proposals are due January 15! https://www.uua.org/ga/program/contribute/proposing … #uuaga

From the archives: "The Ghosts of Unitarian Christmas," by Doug Muder. "Marley and Ben had co-chaired the Finance Committee at their Unitarian Universalist church, until the older man’s fatal heart attack a few months before." http://owl.li/3uKT30n2XDF 

Rosa Gutierrez Lopez, a mother of three children born in the U.S. ages 11, 9, and 6, has taken sanctuary in a Maryland Unitarian Universalist church after ICE told her to return to El Salvador. https://wapo.st/2Gga9XG?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4c8be7e6f2ac …

Rosa Gutierrez Lopez, a mother of three children born in the U.S. ages 11, 9, and 6, has taken sanctuary in a Maryland Unitarian Universalist church after ICE told her to return to El Salvador. https://twitter.com/RevdUU/status/1072960809096032256 …

UUA announcement: "With a newly enhanced department, the Co-Directors of MFD will support, sustain, and advance multicultural, anti-oppressive, justice-centered, innovative Unitarian Universalist lay and professional leadership and ministry for all ages." https://www.uua.org/pressroom/stories/uua-announces-dr-janice-marie-johnson-will-co-lead-enhanced-ministries-and-faith …

On Saturday, Unitarian Universalist clergy on a @UUJMCA border justice trip in Tijuana helped marry 7 LGBTQ couples who had just arrived with the migrant caravan from Guatemala. https://www.intomore.com/impact/fearing-separation-in-the-u-s-lgbtq-caravan-migrants-are-getting-married-in-tijuana …

News: Unitarian Universalist congregations serving communities devastated by California fires grateful for help from other congregations and @UUA Disaster Relief Fund. "We are not in recovery mode at all," says minister in Chico. https://www.uuworld.org/articles/california-fires-2018-11-19 …

LREDA, the professional organization for Unitarian Universalist religious educators, celebrated its 70th anniversary this weekend while holding its Fall Conference in Houston. Happy birthday! https://twitter.com/UULREDA/status/1058533111523393536 …

Unitarian Universalist church in Fresno CA won't be a polling location on Election Day because the church refused to cover its #BlackLivesMatter banners, which are "a theological and civil rights statement." https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/article220919265.html …

An immigrant facing deportation has now spent one year in sanctuary at a Unitarian Universalist church in Connecticut. http://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Meriden/Meriden-News/Sujitno-Sajuti-one-year-in-Meriden-sanctuary.html …

Read about Unitarian Universalist support for the valve turners in this story from our Summer issue: https://www.uuworld.org/articles/living-emergency …

Powerful words from Unitarian Universalist writers in this excruciating week, collected in our weekly Interdependent Web roundup: https://www.uuworld.org/articles/blog-roundup-2018-10-05 …