Susan Frederick-Gray

It has been my profound honor to serve as your UUA president.

Dr. Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, shares a blessing for the holiday season in the final year of her administration.

Unitarian Universalists commit to defend voting rights as sacred.

Living into Beloved Community is spiritual work.

However you celebrate, holidays and rituals are an invitation for reflection. They remind us of our past, and they also invite us to be attentive to the present moment.

There is great healing and sustaining power in our faith, even if the ways we gather look different than before.

Three core priorities will continue to guide our work.

A message to white Unitarian Universalists.

We are less than twelve months away from the most critical elections in our lifetimes. We must not be on the sidelines.

It is easy to hold up a light and declare that everyone is welcome. It is harder to build a place where everyone is truly at home.

If our justice work does not emerge from the moral and spiritual value of love, in the end it will reinforce practices of domination and violence, just in new forms.

Mission and covenant are an antidote to individualism. They remind us of the responsibilities that come with an affirmation of interdependence.

If we are not acting fearlessly for human dignity, compassion, justice, and peace, then we are failing to live our mission.

An anger that burns without consuming can be the fire and the energy for action, for organizing, for creating justice.

The president of the Unitarian Universalist Association reflects on the spiritual challenges of confronting the resurgence of American white nationalism.

It is important to be honest about our complicated history, not to bring shame or guilt, but to bring understanding that can inform our faith today.

It’s going to take all of us to move our world, and our faith, forward in the ways of truth, compassion, and justice.

This is no time for a casual faith. And we Unitarian Universalists must remember that we are not in this alone.

It is essential that we find ways to breathe life into that which reminds us of our power, our humanity, our compassion, and our interdependence.

We bring a lot to the relationships and communities we join. So, let me tell you a little about where I come from.

A theology of interdependence is the true heart of our faith; our work for justice is our faithful response.

Three things are essential: Spiritual vitality, partnership, and organizing for impact.

In the midst of this global pandemic, as we hold the grief and weight of what is happening to the human community, it is clear that the pastoral is prophetic and the prophetic is pastoral.

From the UUA President: Unitarian Universalist values call us to audaciously imagine a world where no one is disposable and where everyone can thrive. They also call us to the struggle that brings these ideals to fruition.

Invocation to open the 2018 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

‘In the midst of crisis or heartbreak, a regular spiritual practice can help us find the capacity to remain present to our emotions and experiences without cutting them off or turning away.’

Everywhere, this time of pandemic and uprisings is offering us lessons that we need to carry forward.

In the midst of critical justice work, it is essential to practice more deeply our faith.