Monday was Labor Day; a day for remembering the struggles that have shaped the quality of life that we enjoy and created the American Dream. We tried to share things over the long weekend to support that frame of mind. Unitarian Universalism aspires towards a more just and compassionate world. While we live in a […]
Facebook is down, and for most of our audience, that means they won’t know we posted this. We’ve asked people to subscribe to the blog by email and we encourage people to follow us on Twitter and/or Tumblr. We do that because we are all far too reliant on Facebook and it’s whims. I post […]
The following submission is printed without edits. Rev. KC Slack has shared the view of a nonbinary individual reacting to an article in the latest edition of UU World. We will not link directly to it, so that it does not gain standing on search engines or social media. It is on Page 30 of […]
IAmUU.net is currently more than 300 pages devoted to Unitarian Universalist outreach and faith development. We have people from all over the world who rely on our website to help keep them connected to Unitarian Universalism (something one international patron said just last week). We are really proud of what we’ve published there. We want […]
It has become pretty common knowledge over the last couple of years that Facebook makes choices for you. Facebook has developed very clever programs, like robots that watch the site for them. Those programs pick what goes on your screen in hopes of keep you looking at the screen longer and seeing just a few […]
The Cambridge Platform is the original document on which the UUA bases its governance structure. It recognizes two distinct types of Minister: Pastors and Teachers, placing them on even footing as “Officers of the Church”. We’ve moved away from that over the last 370 years. This year, we are being asked to consider our roots. […]
A report from Sheryl Abrahams of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Brussels, Belgium We Unitarian Universalists take pride in our faith’s legacy of acceptance and freedom of conscience. This year, we celebrate the 450th anniversary of one of the world’s first declarations of religious tolerance, and the first official recognition of Unitarianism as a faith. […]
Like a lot of Generation X, I grew up watching PBS. Honestly, I probably watched much more than average. The local station, KERA, has a huge budget relative to other markets and was the first station in the US to offer British comedies. I grew up on Sesame Street, but also Justin Wilson and Julia […]
My name is Thomas Earthman. The I Am UU project is my ministry. I am not an ordained minister. I’m not trained to do the work of a parish minister. I do have, as the UUA puts it, “gifts to share with [my] faith community and the wider world.” My commitment to community ministry has […]
I let this sit a couple of days so that I could try to edit it with more calm, but it hasn’t been completely successful. I wrote this in the hours after the most recent mass shooting in the United States; the most deadly ever, a record that stood for just over 14 months. This […]
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.
