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End This Now!

Join us for an overview of domestic violence, including how abuse manifests, understanding the cycle of abuse, and red flags to look for as well as information about how to be a positive bystander, intervening in the situations, attitudes, and behaviors that lead to abuse.

Lynnea … read more.

Telling Our Stories

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.

Door of No Return

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? 

Goodness and Mercy

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.

Until Love Wins

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.

Music Sunday: Accepting Our Gifts

 Online Only

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.

UU Justice Revival – Taking a Collective Breath

Please click here to preview Sunday’s Service
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.

Nothing About Us Without Us: Telling Disability Stories

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.