We are a people of story. The stories we tell shape how we see ourselves and the world. So what happens if we change our stories?
The Rev. Darrick Jackson (he/him) is the Director of Ministries for Lifelong Learning of UU Ministers Association and an Affiliated … read more.
Join me for a reflection on the question of what it means to understand home as a part of our identity. Travel has a way of reinforcing the meaning of home in new and not always comfortable ways. How do we define and find home?
In a dominant culture that fetishizes crime and punishment while remaining apathetic to the failures of the penal system, our Unitarian Universalist theologies remind us that we can rely on deeper truths of goodness and mercy that still hold each of us accountable in and to the interdependent web … read more.
The ministers and staff of First Universalist Church, Minneapolis.
We will join thousands upon thousands of other Unitarian Universalists around the world for the Sunday Morning General Assembly Worship service. You can come in person to church at 10 am and watch the service on the large … read more.
Paths, pilgrimages, journeys–all metaphors for how we move through our lives and difficult journeys. Sometimes what we learn from the journey is how to accept help from others along the way, and other times we learn that the end of the journey is only the … read more.
One of the best things about belonging to a religious community like ours is the way in which people offer their particular gifts and talents to the benefit of the whole. Today we celebrate the gift of music and the … read more.
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April 25, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. Online Only on YouTube
Twenty-five Unitarian Universalist congregations in IL, the UU Advocacy network, and UU Prison ministries are gathering to take a collective breath. As spring waits on the horizon, can we breathe? … read more.
Many of us are familiar with the works of great nature writers and how they inspire us to consider our relationship with the natural world. Poet Mary Oliver and naturalist Henry David Thoreau’s writings have guided our mindful explorations, especially in our Unitarian Universalist communities. … read more.
Disabled people have often been viewed as objects of charity or pity rather than human beings with worth and dignity. In recent history, disabled activists, using the slogan ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, came together to fight for civil rights and for the ability to dictate their … read more.
According to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, abolition is about building presence and not absence. Join us for a meditation on incarceration, the prison industrial complex, and how our Unitarian Universalist understandings of human dignity and interconnectedness inform us as we work for just systems of accountability … read more.
