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FEATURES
Why we’re ready for radical change
If nothing else, the past few months have definitively put the lie to the idea that late capitalist societies are incapable of seismic transformations on a deadline.
Ware Lecture by Naomi Klein
This is no ‘nation of immigrants’
Categorizing the United States as a “nation of immigrants” obscures the country’s settler colonial history and erases the violence of settler colonialism, genocide, and slavery.
Featured Presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
DEPARTMENTS
The future: no going back to normal
All of our culture’s accumulated debts—to our fellow humans and to the more-than-human world as well—are coming due at once. But it is also true that a staggering number of people now grasp the scale of our interlocking crises.
by Susan Frederick-Gray in From the president
Keeping the covenant of democracy
Four-page insert adapted from Tapestry of Faith lifespan faith development programs.
by the UUA Faith Development Office in Families Weave a Tapestry of Faith
LIFE
Stop calling the police and start eradicating anti-Blackness
by the Unitarian Universalist Association
UU the Vote: All hands on deck
Build relationships with communities to make a difference now and in the future.
by Nicole Pressley
An unshakeable desire
Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout’s music ministry.
by Elaine McArdle
Youth and emerging adults cope with pandemic life
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, young UUs are figuring out their paths through unprecedented uncertainties.
by Andrea Dulanto
Chalice project helps unite a community
by Heather Beasley Doyle
Welcome to UUism: How do UUs mourn?
by Liz James
© 2019 Paul Alan Bennett
SPIRIT
A pastoral letter to Black UUs
How is it with your spirit today? Today, my spirit is struck by grief.
by Lauren Smith
Finding the divine from a hospital bed
Once I got covid-19, I only had room for Now.
by Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek
Serving with the deepest respect and care
Chaplaincy is a deep expression of UU theology.
by Elaine McArdle
Creations: Pegasus rising
by Paul Alan Bennett
My faith keeps showing up for me
Is it possible that the most countercultural thing about me is that I go to church?
by Kate Landis
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IDEAS
Policing is the glue of whiteness
Actual policework is often neither clean nor heroic.
by Howard Bryant
Behind the scenes of a ‘big experiment’: the first all-virtual GA
by Elaine McArdle
Music programs find challenges, creativity in move online
Congregational music programs had to adjust quickly when the coronavirus pandemic forced worship services online. Now many are facing the reality that they might not meet in person again until next spring.
by Joshua Eaton
Reflecting on lessons from Stonewall
Years after the Stonewall uprising, I finally understood concepts like respectability politics and intersectionality.
by Gail Geisenhainer
Recognizing lament
How might a UU ritual of lament help when you are driven to cry out?
by Myriam Renaud
Blog roundup
by Heather Christensen
courtesy UPLA
NEWS
The print edition contains abridged versions of stories that may have appeared first on uuworld.org.
What antiracism work looks like for two UU congregations and their partners
by Sherri Daye Scott
UUA urges congregations to remain virtual-only during pandemic
Unitarian Universalist Association urges its congregations to plan on virtual-only gatherings for next twelve months as COVID-19 continues to endanger lives.
by Christopher L. Walton
Almost 5,000 attend Virtual General Assembly
UUA’s first online-only General Assembly calls for solidarity with Indigenous communities, supports defunding police, and formalizes human rights investment screen.
by Christopher L. Walton
Commission on Institutional Change’s final report
by Jessica York, Carey McDonald, and Janice Marie Johnson
NASA names telescope for UU ‘Mother of Hubble’
Christina Rivera receives Angus H. MacLean Award
Congregational news
UUs offer help during pandemic; CLF gets new co-leaders.
Congregations partner with housing, food nonprofits amid pandemic
Kansas and Arizona churches serve as emergency shelters; California and New York churches provide groceries to people in need.
by Heather Beasley Doyle
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ONLINE EXTRAS
Audio recordings
Audio recordings of selected UU World stories.