Some things to consider as many congregations start getting their budget ready for the spring congregational meetings: Who are the most vulnerable people in your church? Who are the people who are the most impressionable? Who are the people who need the most guidance in their search for truth and meaning? Which group of people […]
Have you ever been out in public and smelled something delicious? Maybe it was stir fry, french fries, or fresh fruit, but there was this smell coming from somewhere and you had no idea where… Has that happened to you? Sure, sometimes it is obvious, with a little looking, but not always. Sometimes it isn’t […]
I want more people to know about Unitarian Universalism. I want more people to be excited about liberal religion. There should be more art to promote our Principles and values and more writing to help explain them. I want shared stories so that UUs from different parts of the country can talk more easily about […]
If we value liberal religion and want it to be vibrant and powerful in the world, we need to look at ministry in new ways. There are so many ways that more fundamentalist ideas are spread, from preachers on a soap box on the local college campus to the blogs and YouTube channels of Islamic […]
The Beloved Community is, perhaps, the closest Unitarian Universalists get to agreeing on Heaven; it is the idea that one day our Principles will be realized here on Earth, and all people will be treated in accordance with their inherent worth and dignity, afforded their right of conscience, and that we will have a world […]
Today we are offering up a couple of versions of flyer we have created to share with your community. They mimic the classic “take a number” flyers so popular in coffee shops, book stores, and campuses. We encourage you to put your website or Facebook address on the back, so that people actually taking a […]
This week, we are thrilled to present the words of a Unitarian Universalist who went to General Assembly and was asked to give a sermon based on what she learned. She has graciously contributed her words to this website so that we can hopefully incite two very important discussions about two very important words that […]
Every congregation talks about growth. There are Facebook groups, websites, blogs, and even offices in the UUA devoted to the topic. Growth is important to the health of a congregation and of a religious movement. If we aren’t growing, at least a little, then we will fade beyond obscurity and into irrelevance. The thing that […]
On our Facebook page we have started every day this week with some quote that tries to explain what is great, what is different, and what is compelling about Unitarian Universalism. We’ve seen some mixed reactions to these posts, but they do give people some help in forming their personal answer, which is always going […]
I was born at the tail end of Generation X. This weekend, I age out of the UUA’s “Young Adult” designation. I have had a long, strange trip from “pagan looking for community” to “born-again UU evangelist” over the 16 years that I’ve been familiar with the fellowship where my soon-to-be wife and I are about […]
Wearing a t-shirt or drinking from a mug with a flaming chalice on it is a very low-pressure way to invite questions and conversation about liberal religion.
