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UUA President Application Process Opens April 4

By: Elaine McArdle
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Elaine McArdle

Association’s next chief executive and spiritual leader to be elected at General Assembly 2023

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We Keep Rising in Love

By: Molly Housh Gordon
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Molly Housh Gordon

You can crush Love down, bury it, cover it over, but it will rise.

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We Keep Rising in Love

By: Molly Housh Gordon
Seen from high above, a human crowd forms two hands and a heart shape on white background

Molly Housh Gordon

You can crush Love down, bury it, cover it over, but it will rise.

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UUA President Application Process is open

By: Elaine McArdle
The Presidential Search Commitee process

Elaine McArdle

Association’s next chief executive and spiritual leader to be elected at General Assembly 2023

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Return and Remember

By: Summer Albayati
A person in pink robes, mostly cropped out of the photo, holds a Qur'am and Muslim prayer beads.

Summer Albayati

When the holy month of Ramadan approaches, it becomes a beautiful reminder to return to myself.

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Return and Remember

By: Summer Albayati
A person in pink robes, mostly cropped out of the photo, holds a Qur'am and Muslim prayer beads.

Summer Albayati

When the holy month of Ramadan approaches, it becomes a beautiful reminder to return to myself.

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The Power to Save

By: Sara Palmer
A mother and daughter, holding hands, walk on a path through a forest. They are smiling at one another, and are seen from behind.

Sara Palmer

May we forever perceive the ways we can empower others.

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The Power to Save

By: Sara Palmer
A mother and daughter, holding hands, walk on a path through a forest. They are smiling at one another, and are seen from behind.

Sara Palmer

May we forever perceive the ways we can empower others.

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Learning How to Fail

By: Christine Slocum
A close up of two competitors, mid-match, at the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Shinbun Championship (2017).

Christine Slocum

White supremacy culture tells me that I’m only "good" if I’m perfect, treating all falls as hard stops.

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Learning How to Fail

By: Christine Slocum
A close up of two competitors, mid-match, at the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Shinbun Championship (2017).

Christine Slocum

White supremacy culture tells me that I’m only "good" if I’m perfect, treating all falls as hard stops.

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The Defiant Spark

By: David Kohlmeier
In dim light, a person holds their hands out, palms forward, obscuring their face. A few bright sparks hang suspended between their hands.

David Kohlmeier

You didn’t earn your worth, and you can’t lose it. Because you exist. Period.

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The Defiant Spark

By: David Kohlmeier
In dim light, a person holds their hands out, palms forward, obscuring their face. A few bright sparks hang suspended between their hands.

David Kohlmeier

You didn’t earn your worth, and you can’t lose it. Because you exist. Period.

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Azuucar! Stop the Burn Campaign in Florida

By: Jim Smith
Sugar cane field burning, Australia, 2010

Jim Smith

Florida's 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.

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Asking for Help

By: Quinn Gormley
Seen from behind, at the beach, a father has his arm lovingly wrapped around his child's shoulder.

Quinn Gormley

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

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Asking for Help

By: Quinn Gormley
Seen from behind, at the beach, a father has his arm lovingly wrapped around his child's shoulder.

Quinn Gormley

Happy kids are safer kids, because happy kids have adults they can ask for help.

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Connecting Across Differences

By: Anonymous
A man in an orange prison jumpsuit reads a letter, smiling.

Anonymous

Praise be for our connection. Help us to learn from each other.

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Connecting Across Differences

By: Anonymous
A man in an orange prison jumpsuit reads a letter, smiling.

Anonymous

Praise be for our connection. Help us to learn from each other.

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Sowing Justice: ‘Voter Fraud’ Conspiracists Reveal Their Hypocrisy

By: Jeff Milchen
Stock image depicting a hand moving through a maze to get to a ballot box, symbolizing voting challenges, election problems, and voter suppression.

Jeff Milchen

An effective tool exists to minimize the chance of illegitimate votes—those who fail to embrace it show professed concerns about voter fraud are false.

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The Unexpected Sacredness of Things

By: Tania Márquez
A hand holding a censer, in which burning copal incense releases smoke.

Tania Márquez

Every time I find the sacred unexpectedly, I am filled with awe and surprise.

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The Unexpected Sacredness of Things

By: Tania Márquez
A hand holding a censer, in which burning copal incense releases smoke.

Tania Márquez

Every time I find the sacred unexpectedly, I am filled with awe and surprise.

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Sowing Justice: Slam the Brakes on Plan for USPS Fleet of Gas-Guzzlers

By: Jeff Milchen
US postal truck driving quickly

Jeff Milchen

Our personal transportation choices matter, but significant emission reductions must also involve large-scale institutional change.

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Love Is Showing Up

By: Melissa Jeter
Two Black women pack toys into a box, as though preparing a donation

Melissa Jeter

Every time someone showed up for me, I learned that love is greater than skin deep.

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Love Is Showing Up

By: Melissa Jeter
Two Black women pack toys into a box, as though preparing a donation

Melissa Jeter

Every time someone showed up for me, I learned that love is greater than skin deep.

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A Time to Simplify

By: Megan Foley, Evin Carvill Ziemer
A minister speaks during online worship on a home laptop.

Megan Foley

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Evin Carvill Ziemer

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...

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Blossoming into the New Year

By: Tim Atkins
The year "2022" written in flowers, leaves, and pinecones

Tim Atkins

What word might you use as your centering lodestar for 2022?

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Blossoming into the New Year

By: Tim Atkins
The year "2022" written in flowers, leaves, and pinecones

Tim Atkins

What word might you use as your centering lodestar for 2022?

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Telling Our Stories to Cope with COVID

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
four yellow balls, one with a frown face, one with a smile face, one with a worried face, one with an angry face

Evin Carvill Ziemer

As the omicron surge–tsunami–hits the United States I am grateful for the protection of vaccination and yet I am braced against less deadly, but still deep impact. The impact of a form of trauma called “moral injury” or “moral distress”. I’m worried for all of us.

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The Grace within a Pecan Pie

By: Jake Morrill
In the foreground, a slice of pecan pie and a hot beverage sit on a table. In the background, there's a merry decorated Christmas tree.

Jake Morrill

For me, “surrendering everything tenderly” brings an awareness of grace.

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The Grace within a Pecan Pie

By: Jake Morrill
In the foreground, a slice of pecan pie and a hot beverage sit on a table. In the background, there's a merry decorated Christmas tree.

Jake Morrill

For me, “surrendering everything tenderly” brings an awareness of grace.

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Dealing with Anger

By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
ocean waves hitting rocks and creating spray

Evin Carvill Ziemer

If you’re a congregational leader, you may be wondering why you can’t do anything right and it seems like someone is always angry with you right now. It’s not you. You’re not alone.

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The Work That's Ours to Do

By: DanaLee Simon
Bright red-orange kokanee salmon swim in the water of a shallow stream flanked by foliage

DanaLee Simon

We already have everything we need within us to meet the life that is before us.

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The Work That's Ours to Do

By: DanaLee Simon
Bright red-orange kokanee salmon swim in the water of a shallow stream flanked by foliage

DanaLee Simon

We already have everything we need within us to meet the life that is before us.

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A Thousand Voices

By: Tania Márquez
The stub of a lit taper candle burns brightly on a bed of cempasúchil, or Mexican marigolds.

Tania Márquez

The dead aren’t really dead; their stories are perpetually being told by the world around us.

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UU Pittsburgh Assembly to Explore the 8th Principle

By: Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe
Image is a bridge with a chalice above it

Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe

On November 6th, UUs of Greater Pittsburgh- a membership organization of 12 congregations- will gather to discuss the 8th Principle and what it can mean for our congregations. The keynote will be one of the co-authors of the 8th Principle, Paula Cole Jones. This online Assembly is open to all.

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A Thousand Voices

By: Tania Márquez
The stub of a lit taper candle burns brightly on a bed of cempasúchil, or Mexican marigolds.

Tania Márquez

The dead aren’t really dead; their stories are perpetually being told by the world around us.

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Reclaiming My Culture

By: Mike Adams
Four members of the Squamish and Lil'wat Nations, with their backs to the camrea, are each draped in a traditional Squamish or Lil'wat blanket.

Mike Adams

I was leaving my mom in another world, located far away from mine.

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Only Clay on the Wheel

By: Jake Morrill
A person's hands shape a clay vessel on a potter's wheel.

Jake Morrill

I want to be shaped in a way that lets me serve the eternal.

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