Recent Stories
Transcendentalism divided
Some Transcendentalists emphasized self-reliance, but others stressed social reform.
Three in a thousand identify as Unitarians
A major new survey estimates that 0.3 percent of American adults identify as Unitarians.
Why I'm sticking with classics
My reasons for reading Hawthorne, Melville, and Dante are hardly noble.
Was your town a sundown town?
How to find out if your community intentionally excluded African Americans.
Forgotten story of America's whites-only towns
James Loewen documents the rise of 'sundown towns' and their enduring legacy.
Liberal religion and the working class
Unitarian Universalism has a class problem.
Drops of water turn a mill
Does the Internet Age augur a revival of liberal religion?
Louisa May Alcott's Unitarian legacy
Did 'Little Women' plant the seeds of my own Unitarian Universalism?
Help for anxious parents
The world is a dangerous place, but many parents are at risk of overprotecting their children.
Books address adoption's complications
Clear and honest writing about adopting a child.
Straight to Jesus
Inside the Evangelical gay-conversion movement.
We are what we eat
Michael Pollan's 'Omnivore's Dilemma' challenges our eating habits.
American myths reconsidered
Five years after 9/11.
Five years of 9-11 articles
Selections from UU World's archives, 2001-2006.
Sam Harris challenges liberal religious tolerance
Sam Harris has good news and bad news for Unitarian Universalists.
Secularism and tolerance after 9-11
Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Reza Aslan.
Unitarian minister's TV special celebrates 'American Creed'
The Rev. Forrest Church writes Hallmark Channel documentary.
Newbery winner reflects author's liberal faith
Thoughtful teen novel weaves in themes from various world religions.
UUA marks Welcoming program milestone
500th UU church completes Welcoming Congregation program.
The quest for the historical Mary Magdalene
The church fathers and 'The Da Vinci Code' both get Mary Magdalene wrong.
Church offers classes on science of evolution
Kansas UU church offers refresher biology course to public.
Counterculture and liberal religion
20th-century transformations of liberal religion.
The difference between peaceful and violent religions
What does it mean to talk about 'peaceful' or 'violent' religions?
Myths of terror in this year's Oscar nominees
In this year's best picture nominees.
Free speech doesn't justify incendiary speech
When religion is involved, hate speech kills.
Halloween's ritual roots
Even in its secular and commercial form, Halloween ritualizes our inescapable destination.
Competing worldviews of fundamentalists and religious liberals
Why fundamentalists fear liberal family values.
Two new books about the urge to mend
What can we do to help?
Students surveyed on spirituality
Study: Unitarian Universalist college students stand out for spiritual curiosity, volunteerism, social justice work, compassion, and respect for religious diversity.
Don't just say no
Abstinence-only programs hurt kids and society.
Making sense of the conservative worldview
Two recent books can help liberals understand the Christian right.
The spiritual in science fiction
A Unitarian Universalist take on science fiction and fantasy.
Podcasting helps spread UU message
Ministers use new technology to reach the masses.
The pages of sin
Greed, envy, gluttony, and lust reconsidered.
The fear patrol
Unitarian Universalists offer insights into the cultural and personal sources of fear
Orthodox Jewish wisdom for religious liberals
Engaging my ancestral Judaism enriches my Unitarian Universalism.
Human origins and human futures
Looking back at Darwin and ahead at genetic engineering.
Visit to the Kasambala Medical Clinic
An American minister visits the African clinic his church supports.
The fundamentalist agenda
Fundamentalism may be absolutely natural, ancient, and powerful—but the liberal impulse makes us humane.
Science and its metaphors
How far does the authority of science go?
Religious dialogue in a divided world
The urgent need for Muslim dialogue and a Jew's quest to pray with Christians and Muslims.
The middle of everywhere
How Lincoln, Nebraska, came to be the picture of America's multicultural future.
How to be a cultural broker
Things you can to help refugees in your town.
Special issue: Life with terrorism
A guide to stories from UU World's special issue responding to the attacks of 9/11.
An urgent encounter with Islam
A reading list in the aftermath of 9/11.
Unshakable foundations
What endures in a time of terror: A sermon from the week of 9/11.
A brief introduction to India's caste system
India's constitution outlawed castes in 1950, but millions are still treated as outcastes.
E.J. Graff asks what marriage is for
The author of a history of marriage says the time has come for same-sex marriage.
