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Marriage, theodicy, 30 days of poetry, and other UU blogging

Marriage Jacqueline Wolven reflects on the difference between the Puritan Work Ethic by which her husband was raised and how she was raised. Now, I was raised by wolves (not really, just self abso... [read more]

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Unitarian’s quotes grace Oval Office rug, and other UUs in the media

Quotes on new Oval Office rug have Unitarian origin Two of the five quotes woven into a new rug for President Barack Obama’s Oval Office are ones usually attributed to Abraham Lincoln and Mar... [read more]

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Court OKs Menorah Display, But Not Use of City Personnel and Equipment To Light It

In Chabad of Mid-Hudson Valley v. City of Poughkeepsie, (NY App. Div. , Aug. 31, 2010), a New York state appellate court held that the display of an 18-foot high menorah on public property in downt... [read more]

Religion Clause

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White House Press Secretary: President Is a Committed Mainstream Christian

The Christian Science Monitor reported last week that Fox News commentator Glenn Beck is accusing President Obama of not being a true Christian, but instead of believing in Marxist-based "Li... [read more]

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Mormon Church Talks With China Will Likely Lead To Regualarizing LDS Operations In China

In Salt Lake City (UT) this week, the Mormon Church announced that recent meetings with an official of the People's Republic of China are expected to lead to regularizing of the Church's operatio... [read more]

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Remembering the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolesc... [read more]

Beacon Broadside

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The Kids Are All Right

A mom reflects on the critically-acclaimed movie and her own family's anonymous sperm donor. [read more]

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New Orleans UU churches alive—and struggling

NEWS: Three New Orleans churches and a Gulfport, Miss. , congregation struggle to regain members five years after Katrina. [read more]

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UUSC and UUA form Pakistani flood relief fund

NEWS: Money will support UUSC partners helping women, children, and refugee families. [read more]

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Morales visits Unitarian Universalists in the Philippines

NEWS: UUA president’s visit will renew historic ties with UU Church of the Philippines. [read more]

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Ministers defend NYC Islamic center, and other UUs in the media

Religious leaders defend proposed NYC Islamic center CNN reports that a group of 60 interfaith leaders, including the Rev. Anne Felton Hines, minister of Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church in Ca... [read more]

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Believing, defining jihad, and other UU blogger concerns

UUs and believing The Rev. Fred L. Hammond has a pet peeve about people who say UUs can believe whatever they want. We have very specific beliefs. These beliefs are as foundational to who we are a... [read more]

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UUSC and UUA Launch Joint Pakistan Flood Relief Fund

In response to the massive flooding in Pakistan, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) have launched the UUSC-UUA Joint Pakistan Flood... [read more]

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UUSC, UUA Launch Pakistan Flood Relief Fund

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Mosques, culture, joys and concerns, and more on UU blogs

Mosques, Islam, and September 11 Deb Weiner defends the Cordoba Initiative’s plans to build a community center (which will include a mosque) in lower Manhattan: We have an opportunity, with t... [read more]

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There is enough

LIFE: There's enough for you. There's enough for me. We don't have to throw anybody under the bus. [read more]

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Embrace spiritual complexity

LIFE: Our minds are open; our hearts and hands are not. [read more]

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Huge beehive found in church, and other UUs in the media

Workers find 100,000 bees in UU church The Boston Globe reports that construction workers doing restoration work on the roof of the historic First Church of Christ Unitarian in Lancaster, Mass. , d... [read more]

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Our ability to break keeps us alive

SPIRIT: Our ability to break and heal keeps us alive and makes us stronger. [read more]

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Change vision, not culture

LIFE: There are people like us in every community. [read more]

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UUSC, UUA Declare Support for Lower Manhattan Mosque

On August 9, 2010, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) sent a joint letter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressing stron... [read more]

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UUA President Applauds California Prop 8 Ruling

(Boston) Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA), today issued the following statement:The ruling today by Chief U. S. District Judge Vaughn W... [read more]

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The wisdom tree

SPIRIT: Sometimes the place where you used to find wisdom gets destroyed. [read more]

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Broken Buddha

SPIRIT: The enlightened one as imperfect, cracked, and chipped. [read more]

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Newly Adopted Mission and Vision

. Our Vision TRUUs T advocates for the gifts, safety, liberation, and leadership of transgender religious professionals in Unitarian Universalist ministries and institutions. Our Mission Born out... [read more]

Transgender Religious professional UUs Together

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Moving to truust.wordpress.com

Please change your bookmarks and RSS feeds. We’re moving to truust. wordpress. com This should be our new permanent address. Oh, and we have a retreat coming up next month, so updates should... [read more]

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Olbermann: GOP self-destruction imminent

In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann advises Republicans that clinging to obsolete ideas and resorting to extremist rhetoric will only undermine the party's relevance and America wi... [read more]

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An American cry for help

In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann shares his personal experience with a real life 'death panel' situation and scorns the unfairness of health insurance in America. K... [read more]

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Action Alert: Gaza

Sadly, the dismal conditions in Gaza are causing enormous hardship for the people there, with particularly harsh effects on children. Churches for Middle East Peace, a coalition founded in part by ... [read more]

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Olbermann: Beware fear's racist temptation

In a Special Comment, Keith Olbermann explores the relationship between fear and racism and encourages Americans who are distressed about the nation's future to avoid political groups that appeal ... [read more]

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Creating Change

I hadn’t been in 15 years! But last week I packed up and headed for Dallas to the Creating Change Conference, an annual gathering of the glbtq clan. My 13 year old said, “I don’t get it. W... [read more]

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American Prayer Hour a Success

Hundreds of people of faith gathered on Thursday, February 4th in more than 20 cities around the country for the American Prayer Hour, an interfaith response to the National Prayer Breakfast, which... [read more]

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New Survey

Want to do this survey of 18+ individuals who grew up in a UU religious education program and/or participated in YRUU/LRY? All responses are anonymous and confidential. No personal or private info... [read more]

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Media Nation's new home

I ended up moving a little more quickly on this than I had intended. But Media Nation, hosted on Blogspot. com since 2005, has now moved to its own server. Please click here to keep reading. And ad... [read more]

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Alpha-testers wanted

Shhhh . .. no one is supposed to know. But would you mind taking a peek at an early version of what may wind up as the new Media Nation? It's built with Word Press, and you'll find it here. Don'... [read more]

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A Taylor-made Globe?

In what may prove to be very good news for readers of the Boston Globe, a group led by Stephen Taylor — a prominent member of the family that sold the paper to the New York Times Co. in 1993 — ... [read more]

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Rev. Sean Speaks at Rally on Utah Capitol

Video Courtesy of KSL. com (Sorry about the commercial. I couldn’t find a way around it. ) Remarks for the Rally for the Common Ground Inititative January 24, 2009 Rev. Sean Parker Dennison... [read more]

Transgender Religious professional UUs Together

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Letter from Bill Sinkford acknowledging end of YRUU - September 13, 2008

Dear Friends,I am excited to share with you recent positive developments in the transition in our Unitarian Universalist (UU) youth ministry. Based on feedback from the UU youth community and othe... [read more]

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URGENT: Committed youth advocates needed!

Hello All,I have just returned from General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, FL, the UUA's annual business meeting. The Youth and Young Adult Empowerment Resolution which you may have heard of was pas... [read more]

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Duncan Metcalfe

Okay. I have spent a lot of time thinking about how I feel about this. I have spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to add to this discussion, and I want people to read these things as org... [read more]

YRUU Institutional Memory Project

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Consultation History...

UUA HISTORY OF CONSULTATION ON MINISTRY TO AND WITH YOUTH [read more]

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Ben Alexander

Thanks to the bloggers for recognizing the importance of an institutional memory for YRUU. I wish we had this technology during LRY's existence. I am so sad that the UUA still seems to have it's ... [read more]

YRUU Institutional Memory Project

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