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  • Photo collage of 6 spiritual friends, from top left: Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Lewis Hayden
    Editorial

    The Transcendentalists practiced the art of forming and maintaining spiritual friendships transcending differences of gender, social location, theology, politics, and race.

    John A. Buehrens
  • At the end of a June 21 public witness rally during the UUA General Assembly in Spokane, Washington, UUs and local activists form a heart in the park where hundreds called for criminal justice reforms.
    Editorial

    Questions probing the heart of Unitarian Universalism.

    Elandria Williams, Carey McDonald, The Rev. Mr. Barb Greve, Sofía Betancourt, Elías Ortega
  • Flaming chalice at 2019 General Assembly
    Editorial

    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.

    Susan Frederick-Gray
  • stock illustration, line drawing of a votive candle
    Life

    We do not light candles because we believe they have a supernatural power to them, but we do believe there is power in standing together in these moments.

    Liz James
  • Participants in an ESL class offered at the UU Church of Greater Lansing, Michigan work on vocabulary.
    Ideas

    A new location for a Michigan congregation opened up opportunities to help immigrants and refugees. Moving has been nothing short of transformative.

    Heather Beasley Doyle
  • Group of diverse hands holding each other support together teamwork aerial view - Stock image
    Editorial

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

    Susan Frederick-Gray
  • The Neighbor to Neighbor work crew in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
    Life

    The UUA’s Disaster Relief Fund is spreading help faster and farther.

    Elaine McArdle
  • At Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Bill Dockery and his daughter, Haley, share a hymnal with Lea Alexander during the church’s rededication service, held one week after a shooting at the church in 2008.
    Life

    A decade after a fatal shooting, photo book reveals a journey of healing at Tennessee Valley UU Church in Knoxville.

    Michelle Bates Deakin
  • Stock photo of stacks of books on a bookshelf.
    Life

    The realities of an individual life—and of aging—reveal the limits of unlimited growth and expansion.

    Doug Muder
  • illustration of cup of coffee and coffee pot.
    Editorial

    We wanted to let people know about everything we had to offer without making them sit through a Sunday service. We started inviting people directly to the coffee hour.

    Seth Fisher

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