WWUUD stream

🔒
❌ About FreshRSS
There are new articles available, click to refresh the page.
☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Annaliese Cothron, a Trans-Power Mom

Protest in Texas for anti Trans Kids legislation

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Sowing Justice: UU the Vote Rises Again

By: Jeff Milchen
UU leaders march in a Count Every Vote demonstration.

Jeff Milchen

As threats to democracy grow, we’re determined to make 2022 the year love and justice regain the upper hand.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UUA Launches UU the Vote for 2022 Elections

casting a vote with an American flag in the background

Nonpartisan Civic Engagement Initiative Will Focus on Strengthening Democracy, Organizing for Justice and Accountability

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

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

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Supporting Those Impacted by the Crisis in Ukraine

Ukraine flag

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UU Nations: Ukrainians Need More Than Our Prayers

Grayscale photo of people standing outside the United nations building listening to a speaker during an interfaith prayer service for Ukraine, March 2022

Bruce Knotts

Resources and compassion are needed to expand our care not just to those in Ukraine but in other parts of the world.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Government Targeting Transgender Youth in Texas

photo of a young person running along a street holding a transgender pride flag behind them. They are looking back at the camera and smiling.

Adriel Wilson

Now more than ever it is important for UUs to live their values by supporting the trans community.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Sowing Justice: Justice Jackson Nomination Deserves Celebration

Official portrait of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Jeff Milchen

We often miss how far we’ve progressed unless we stop to look back and count our blessings.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Ohio Rally Demands Urgent Action on Immigration

Protesters holding sign: "Enough is enough! It is time! Immigration reform now" at a Moral Monday rally in Raleigh NC, February 2014

Dayton gathering calls for Biden Administration to shut down detention centers, end deportations, and release all people in immigration detention.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UU Nations: Why Was Russia Allowed to Veto the UN Resolution on Ukraine?

By: Bruce Knotts
UN Security Council Votes on Draft Resolution on Ukraine, 2/25/2022

Bruce Knotts

If Russia abstained—as Article 27 of the UN Charter requires—the resolution would have passed.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UUA: Texas Governor is Weaponizing Right of Care for Trans Families

twitter timeline governor Albott

Implementing unsafe standards in communities is harmful to trans and non-binary youth and encourages prejudice and violence.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UU Nations: Ukraine and Our Commitment to Peace

By: Bruce Knotts
Stock photo of the Ukrainian Flag blowing in the wind over the city of Kharkov.

Bruce Knotts

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reminds us that peace, justice, and human rights are linked and interdependent.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UU Nations: Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders at the UN

By: Bruce Knotts
Photo of protesters behind jail bars holding yellow signs with black bars with white text #freerightsdefenders

Bruce Knotts

Human rights defenders—especially women and LGBTQ+ people—can suffer harsh consequences in their home countries for working with the United Nations.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Defund Fear: How Can We Make Each Other Safer?

By: Susan Lawrence
 book titled "Defund Fear" by Zach Norris is held in the hands of someone whose hands are light brown; only their torso is showing.

Susan Lawrence

Zach Norris, the author of this year's UU common read, challenges our notions of safety, promoting a culture of care.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UU Nations: Authoritarianism on the Rise Again

Stock photo of a burning book engulfed in brilliant flames

Bruce Knotts

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Fighting Supremacy in the Global Arena

Bruce Knotts, executive director of UU-UNO

Roger Santodomingo, Bruce Knotts

An interview with Bruce Knotts, director of the Unitarian Universalist Office at the United Nations and new UU World columnist.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Sowing Justice: Let’s Purge Hate from Immigration Debate

Banner hanging from a tree that says "Hate has no home here".

Jeff Milchen

Reasonable people disagree on appropriate levels of immigration, but to have substantive debate, we must refute racist scapegoating and tactics of dehumanization. 

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Honoring Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Thich Nhat Hanh listening deeply to his students in Hong Kong, 2013.

Marianne Schnall

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting. In an interview with Marianne Schnall the master explained how meditation can help us.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Sowing Justice: Why Corporations Love the Filibuster

photo illustration of one arrow pointing right with "democracy" written on it and a larger arrow pointing left with "corporate political spending" written on it.

Jeff Milchen

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Sowing Justice: A Wake-up Call for Reproductive Justice Advocates

L to R: Maggie Clayton, The Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles, Elizabeth Fogarty at a Reproductive Justice Rally.

Jeff Milchen

Because opposition to reproductive rights is so often presented as religious, UUs have a special opportunity to present faith-based arguments for reproductive justice.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Sowing Justice: The Finishing Sprint in a Race to Protect Our Votes

Voting rights march, August 28, 2021, Washington, D.C.

Jeff Milchen

Voting rights bills being brought to a vote in the Senate.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Sowing Justice

Jeff Milchen kayaking on the Middle Fork Salmon River in Idaho

Roger Santodomingo, Jeff Milchen

This week, we introduce Jeff Milchen: kayaker, democracy activist, and new UU World columnist.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

The Riot Concluded, the Threats to Democracy Grow

Stock photo of United States Capitol Building east facade - Washington DC United States

Statement by the Unitarian Universalist Association on the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Exhaling in Community

illustration of two people facing each other. Background is red, their bodies are silhouetted except for face masks.

Christine Slocum

The safety I once perceived was because I did not have the complete perspective.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

“Democracy cannot wait.”

The Rev. David Carl Olson, the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, the Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, and UUA partnerships and coalitions manager Susan Leslie and others at the Moral March in Washington DC in December 2021

Staff Writer

VIDEO | Over 120 Unitarian Universalists participate in Poor People’s Campaign Moral March

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

A Theology of Darkness

Stock photo of a figure silhouetted against a galaxy night sky.

Kristen L. Harper

We need a new theology of darkness—a new way to relate to the darkness, blackness, and brownness that surrounds us.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Practicing Gratitude This Holiday Season: A Message from UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray

UUA President Susan Frederick-Gray, a smiling white woman with straight dark hair cut just above her shoulders, seated in front of a quilt and sideboard with a flowers and chalices.

Susan Frederick-Gray

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Following Indigenous Leadership, UUs Join Major Climate Action in D.C.

Photo of a group of  UU clergy and congregational leaders holding banners participating in the multifaith delegation at the White House, 2021.

Elaine McArdle

People v. Fossil Fuels Demands Biden Stop New Projects

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

I Am Called to Show Up for Climate Justice

Selfie of Zoë Johnston in Washington, D.C., with the Capitol building in the background, October 15, 2021, to join in protest and arrest to demand climate action.

I am a college student, but more urgently, I am a young Unitarian Universalist working to save my future.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Congregations adapt to evolving COVID guidance

Members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia, participate in a Flower Communion in the congregation's memorial garden in May 2021.

Kat McKim

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.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

An Ingathering Greeting from UUA President Susan Frederick-Gray

Screen Shot of Susan Frederick-Gray giving an Ingathering greeting Fall 2021.

Susan Frederick-Gray

There is great healing and sustaining power in our faith, even if the ways we gather look different than before.   

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Widening the Circle of Concern, Together, to Upend White Supremacy

Image of a group of people in an audience with the text "Widening the circle of concern", and the UUA logo.

Heather Beasley Doyle

Five central Illinois congregations collaborate, aided by a new UUA study/action guide.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

UUA President’s Report, General Assembly 2021

A screen shot of UUA President Susan Frederick-Gray presenting her annual report, June 24, during the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Virtual General Assembly 2021.

Susan Frederick-Gray

Three core priorities will continue to guide our work.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

General Assembly Special Collections Recipients Thrive and Grow

FFLIC Youth Leader, Kaliyah Isis Watson, speaks at a ‘#NoMorePrisons Campaign’ press conference in front of the Louisiana State Capitol

Elaine McArdle

Financial contributions from GA participants make significant change possible: a look at the work of three recent recipients.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

More than 4,200 UUs ‘Circle ’Round’ virtually for 2021 General Assembly

A screen shot of UUA President Susan Frederick-Gray speaking during the Service of the Living Tradition, June 24, during the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Virtual General Assembly 2021.

Elaine McArdle, Sonja L. Cohen

UUA’s second online-only General Assembly focuses on dismantling white supremacy and systemic racism.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Q&A: Saunder Choi, GA Music Coordinator

Saunder Choi, GA Music Coordinator

Elaine McArdle

Filipino composer and music director at UU Community Church of Santa Monica, California, provides creative direction for UUA General Assembly 2021.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Excitement Builds for 2021 ‘Circle ’Round’ General Assembly

Illustration of a computer with the 2021 UUA General Assembly logo

Staff Writer

UUA’s second all-virtual General Assembly is focused on improving user experience and providing more opportunities for interaction.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

In Tulsa, Faith Leaders Call for Massacre Reparations

Rev. Dr. Robert Turner prays on a street painting of Black Lives Matter in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, August 4, 2020

Elaine McArdle

One hundred years after the violent destruction of a prosperous Black neighborhood, a coalition of faith communities is building support for reparations.

☐ ☆ ✇ uuworld.org: latest stories

Pandemic Reckoning

Illustration including a map of the USA with a black and white US flag superimposed, with an orange background of Covid viruses.

Joshua Eaton

Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward.

❌