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Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward. SUMMARY OF BUSINESS DELEGATES WILL CONSIDER AT 2021 Summary of Business Delegates Will Consider at 2021 General Assembly. Election features one contested Board seat; resolutions would shorten UUA presidential campaigns and allow possibility of uncontested presidential election. This article was updated 5/27/21. T housands of Unitarian Universalists are preparing to gather online June 23–27 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATIONS BY STATE This map shows the number of congregations affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association in each state and the District of Columbia. Seven of the ten states with the most congregations are also among the most populous states, but the state with the most congregations and members is Massachusetts, the fourteenth mostpopulous state.
IN COHOUSING COMMUNITIES, UU SENIORS ARE FINDING NEW WAYS Among the 165 cohousing communities nationwide, fourteen—either established or in the building stages—are for seniors, according to a 2017 directory of the Cohousing Association of the United States, and more are in formation. Senior cohousing is defined differently by individual communities, with “55 years and over” a commondemarcation.
POEM: PANDEMIC
reach out with your heart. in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. where we cannot touch. THE PROBLEM WITH WILDERNESS The problem with wilderness. The American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script. Dina Gilio-Whitaker 3/1/2020 Spring 2020. BE OPEN TO RESURRECTION F ew Unitarian Universalists believe there was a physical, photographable resuscitation of Jesus’s corpse. Few believe that Jesus knowingly sacrificed his life to atone for the sins of humanity or that only by his sacrifice and our belief in him as our Lord and WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? What is developmental ministry? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches themwith a
ENVIRONMENTAL TABOOS Jeffrey A. Lockwood, an insect ecologist and writer, is a professor of natural sciences and humanities at the University of Wyoming. An online columnist for UU World, he is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Laramie, Wyoming. He is the author of several books, including Grasshopper Dreaming, Locust, and PrairieSoul.
BREAKTHROUGH CONGREGATION: TEENS LEAD THE WAY When a minivan pulls into the driveway and a dark-haired woman in a red jacket steps out, that illusion dissipates. Before long, more than a dozen members of First Religious Society in Carlisle ’s junior youth group are busy in the barn with the woman, Pam Howell, theUU WORLD MAGAZINE
Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward. SUMMARY OF BUSINESS DELEGATES WILL CONSIDER AT 2021 Summary of Business Delegates Will Consider at 2021 General Assembly. Election features one contested Board seat; resolutions would shorten UUA presidential campaigns and allow possibility of uncontested presidential election. This article was updated 5/27/21. T housands of Unitarian Universalists are preparing to gather online June 23–27 UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATIONS BY STATE This map shows the number of congregations affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association in each state and the District of Columbia. Seven of the ten states with the most congregations are also among the most populous states, but the state with the most congregations and members is Massachusetts, the fourteenth mostpopulous state.
IN COHOUSING COMMUNITIES, UU SENIORS ARE FINDING NEW WAYS Among the 165 cohousing communities nationwide, fourteen—either established or in the building stages—are for seniors, according to a 2017 directory of the Cohousing Association of the United States, and more are in formation. Senior cohousing is defined differently by individual communities, with “55 years and over” a commondemarcation.
POEM: PANDEMIC
reach out with your heart. in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. where we cannot touch. THE PROBLEM WITH WILDERNESS The problem with wilderness. The American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script. Dina Gilio-Whitaker 3/1/2020 Spring 2020. BE OPEN TO RESURRECTION F ew Unitarian Universalists believe there was a physical, photographable resuscitation of Jesus’s corpse. Few believe that Jesus knowingly sacrificed his life to atone for the sins of humanity or that only by his sacrifice and our belief in him as our Lord and WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? What is developmental ministry? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches themwith a
ENVIRONMENTAL TABOOS Jeffrey A. Lockwood, an insect ecologist and writer, is a professor of natural sciences and humanities at the University of Wyoming. An online columnist for UU World, he is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Laramie, Wyoming. He is the author of several books, including Grasshopper Dreaming, Locust, and PrairieSoul.
BREAKTHROUGH CONGREGATION: TEENS LEAD THE WAY When a minivan pulls into the driveway and a dark-haired woman in a red jacket steps out, that illusion dissipates. Before long, more than a dozen members of First Religious Society in Carlisle ’s junior youth group are busy in the barn with the woman, Pam Howell, the EXCITEMENT BUILDS FOR 2021 ‘CIRCLE ’ROUND’ GENERAL W ith two weeks to go until the Unitarian Universalist Association’s annual General Assembly convenes online June 23–27, 2021, anticipation is building among the thousands of UUs already registered.. General Assembly is the annual opportunity for delegates to engage in the governance of the UUA. This year they will elect nine people to volunteer leadership positions and willCLASSIFIED ADS
Join us for online community conversations, contemplation, and prayer. Non-dual, devotional, energy-based, naturalist, or other—sharing direct experience and non-locality on THE PROBLEM WITH WILDERNESS The problem with wilderness. The American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script. Dina Gilio-Whitaker 3/1/2020 Spring 2020. WAS YOUR TOWN A SUNDOWN TOWN? O nce you have shown that a community or neighborhood was white on purpose, publicizing your information is the first step toward ameliorating the situation, especially in metropolitan areas. Even though proud to be overwhelmingly white, elite sundown suburbs try to avoid being known for it. This is the “paradox of exclusivity.” Residents of Kenilworth, for instance, want their town to be CHOICE AT THE END: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS AND THE RIGHT A s anyone who has sat with the dying will tell you, there are good deaths and there are bad deaths.. In 2008, James “Jim” Powell, a longtime member of First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, was having a very hard death. Riddled with cancer, Powell lay in excruciating pain with open wounds, and he was eager to hasten hisend.
WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches them with a minister whose skills can help them achieve them. While the program is still evolving WE ARE WRITING OUR OWN STORIES The following passage is an excerpt from the June 22, 2018, General Assembly worship service, “Choosing the Better Part.” T here are so many types of stories. Myth. Fable. Parable. Allegory. It canbecome confusing.
LEWIS LATIMER, AFRICAN AMERICAN INVENTOR AND UNITARIAN Brilliant, modest, and still little known, Lewis Latimer was a key figure behind two of the most revolutionary inventions of all time—the light bulb and the telephone. The son of escaped slaves, Latimer became one of the first African American inventors and helped found the Unitarian church in Flushing, New York. Latimer grew up inBoston.
SITTING, WITH A GOOD BUDDHIST NOVEL The books started to arrive, and I began to read. One grabbed me in the first pages with its sure, witty voice: Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence by David Guy (Trumpeter, 2007). Or maybe it was because its cover featured a black-rimmed diner cup full of black coffee—hitting me squarely in my own object of attachment. A HUMANIST'S GUIDE TO PRAYER A humanist's guide to prayer. Patricia Montley. 2/25/2013. UU World Magazine Spring 2013. , published by the. Unitarian UniversalistAssociation.
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Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward.LATEST STORIES
Former UUA President O. Eugene Pickett Dies. President of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1979 to 1985, Pickett oversaw a period of growth and financial stability. Tom Stites 8/19/2020 Spring 2021. Portland church joins lawsuit over federal agents at Black Lives Matter protests. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File. IN COHOUSING COMMUNITIES, UU SENIORS ARE FINDING NEW WAYS Among the 165 cohousing communities nationwide, fourteen—either established or in the building stages—are for seniors, according to a 2017 directory of the Cohousing Association of the United States, and more are in formation. Senior cohousing is defined differently by individual communities, with “55 years and over” a commondemarcation.
POEM: PANDEMIC
reach out with your heart. in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. where we cannot touch. WAS YOUR TOWN A SUNDOWN TOWN? O nce you have shown that a community or neighborhood was white on purpose, publicizing your information is the first step toward ameliorating the situation, especially in metropolitan areas. Even though proud to be overwhelmingly white, elite sundown suburbs try to avoid being known for it. This is the “paradox of exclusivity.” Residents of Kenilworth, for instance, want their town to be CHOICE AT THE END: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS AND THE RIGHT A s anyone who has sat with the dying will tell you, there are good deaths and there are bad deaths. In 2008, James “Jim” Powell, a longtime member of First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, was having a very hard death. Riddled with cancer, Powell lay in excruciating pain with open wounds, and he was eager to hasten hisend.
BE OPEN TO RESURRECTION F ew Unitarian Universalists believe there was a physical, photographable resuscitation of Jesus’s corpse. Few believe that Jesus knowingly sacrificed his life to atone for the sins of humanity or that only by his sacrifice and our belief in him as our Lord and A MAP TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH T he Rev. Lindasusan V. Ulrich has long known that authenticity was something she valued, but it was only after participating in Spirit Map, a unique new self-assessment tool of spiritual wellbeing and priorities, that Ulrich learned that authenticity “is clearly central to who I am and want to be as a minister,” she said.. Ulrich, who is assistant minister at First Unitarian Universalist WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? What is developmental ministry? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches themwith a
BREAKTHROUGH CONGREGATION: TEENS LEAD THE WAY When a minivan pulls into the driveway and a dark-haired woman in a red jacket steps out, that illusion dissipates. Before long, more than a dozen members of First Religious Society in Carlisle ’s junior youth group are busy in the barn with the woman, Pam Howell, theUU WORLD MAGAZINE
Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward.LATEST STORIES
Former UUA President O. Eugene Pickett Dies. President of the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1979 to 1985, Pickett oversaw a period of growth and financial stability. Tom Stites 8/19/2020 Spring 2021. Portland church joins lawsuit over federal agents at Black Lives Matter protests. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File. IN COHOUSING COMMUNITIES, UU SENIORS ARE FINDING NEW WAYS Among the 165 cohousing communities nationwide, fourteen—either established or in the building stages—are for seniors, according to a 2017 directory of the Cohousing Association of the United States, and more are in formation. Senior cohousing is defined differently by individual communities, with “55 years and over” a commondemarcation.
POEM: PANDEMIC
reach out with your heart. in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. where we cannot touch. WAS YOUR TOWN A SUNDOWN TOWN? O nce you have shown that a community or neighborhood was white on purpose, publicizing your information is the first step toward ameliorating the situation, especially in metropolitan areas. Even though proud to be overwhelmingly white, elite sundown suburbs try to avoid being known for it. This is the “paradox of exclusivity.” Residents of Kenilworth, for instance, want their town to be CHOICE AT THE END: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS AND THE RIGHT A s anyone who has sat with the dying will tell you, there are good deaths and there are bad deaths. In 2008, James “Jim” Powell, a longtime member of First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, was having a very hard death. Riddled with cancer, Powell lay in excruciating pain with open wounds, and he was eager to hasten hisend.
BE OPEN TO RESURRECTION F ew Unitarian Universalists believe there was a physical, photographable resuscitation of Jesus’s corpse. Few believe that Jesus knowingly sacrificed his life to atone for the sins of humanity or that only by his sacrifice and our belief in him as our Lord and A MAP TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH T he Rev. Lindasusan V. Ulrich has long known that authenticity was something she valued, but it was only after participating in Spirit Map, a unique new self-assessment tool of spiritual wellbeing and priorities, that Ulrich learned that authenticity “is clearly central to who I am and want to be as a minister,” she said.. Ulrich, who is assistant minister at First Unitarian Universalist WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? What is developmental ministry? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches themwith a
BREAKTHROUGH CONGREGATION: TEENS LEAD THE WAY When a minivan pulls into the driveway and a dark-haired woman in a red jacket steps out, that illusion dissipates. Before long, more than a dozen members of First Religious Society in Carlisle ’s junior youth group are busy in the barn with the woman, Pam Howell, the SPRING 2021 READER SURVEY Reader survey for the Spring 2021 issue of UU World. Advertisement.Newsletter
SALVATION FOR MODERN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS A fitting conclusion to a discussion of salvation and its universality is this passage, usually attributed to the eighteenth-century Universalist preacher John Murray, but actually written by one of his biographers, Alfred S. Cole: “Go out into the highways and by-ways. Give people something of WAS YOUR TOWN A SUNDOWN TOWN? O nce you have shown that a community or neighborhood was white on purpose, publicizing your information is the first step toward ameliorating the situation, especially in metropolitan areas. Even though proud to be overwhelmingly white, elite sundown suburbs try to avoid being known for it. This is the “paradox of exclusivity.” Residents of Kenilworth, for instance, want their town to be UU WORLD ADVERTISING Scott Ullrich, Business Manager: sullrich@uua.org. Advertising Department. UU World Magazine. 24 Farnsworth Street. Boston, Massachusetts 02210. voicemail (617) 948-6502. fax (617) 742-7025. WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches them with a minister whose skills can help them achieve them. While the program is still evolvingA BENCH BY THE ROAD
Inspired by her remarks, first published in this magazine in 1989, the Toni Morrison Society has now begun to install benches at significant sites in the history of slavery in America. The New York Times reported July 28, 2008, that the first “bench by the road” was dedicated July 26 on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, which servedas
LEWIS LATIMER, AFRICAN AMERICAN INVENTOR AND UNITARIAN Brilliant, modest, and still little known, Lewis Latimer was a key figure behind two of the most revolutionary inventions of all time—the light bulb and the telephone. The son of escaped slaves, Latimer became one of the first African American inventors and helped found the Unitarian church in Flushing, New York. Latimer grew up inBoston.
SERVICE IS OUR PRAYER When we serve we become more compassionate, more sensitive, more understanding, and more aware. Many of our congregations recite the following affirmation: “Love is our doctrine, the quest for truth is our sacrament, and service is our prayer.”. I have always been intrigued by the notion of service as prayer. When I was young I wastaught
EMERSON’S SHADOW
R alph Waldo Emerson memorably said, “Every institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” Unitarian Universalism is too multidimensional to fit neatly within a single shadow, but if any reflection were protean enough to encompass us it would certainly beEmerson’s.
BRYAN STEVENSON 2017 WARE LECTURER ‘T he opposite of poverty isn’t wealth—it is justice,” said Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama, Saturday night at the Ware Lecture at General Assembly 2017 in New Orleans.He received a standing and thunderous ovation that lasted over a minute at the conclusion ofhis remarks.
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Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward.LATEST STORIES
No matter what issues I have with other Unitarian Universalists regarding our visions of God/Spirit, justice, race, and age—at the root of everything is community, love, and faith. IN COHOUSING COMMUNITIES, UU SENIORS ARE FINDING NEW WAYS R etired Unitarian Universalist co-ministers the Rev. Dr. Barbara Wells ten Hove and the Rev. Jaco B. ten Hove were eager for the last third of their lives to be as rich as the first two-thirds. Looking for a “radiant twilight,” in the words of their late mentor the Rev. Marvin Evans, the couple decided to move to Bellingham Cohousing, an intergenerational cohousing community in Bellingham UU WORLD ADVERTISING About Our Readers Place a Display Ad Place an Online Ad Place a Classified Ad View Online Classified Ads Advertising Policy Welcome! We invite you to join us in our pages.POEM: PANDEMIC
W hat if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world CHOICE AT THE END: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS AND THE RIGHTUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATIONUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATIONUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRINCIPLESUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRINCIPLES A s anyone who has sat with the dying will tell you, there are good deaths and there are bad deaths.. In 2008, James “Jim” Powell, a longtime member of First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, was having a very hard death. Riddled with cancer, Powell lay in excruciating pain with open wounds, and he was eager to hasten hisend.
WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches them with a minister whose skills can help them achieve them. While the program is still evolving BE OPEN TO RESURRECTION F ew Unitarian Universalists believe there was a physical, photographable resuscitation of Jesus’s corpse. Few believe that Jesus knowingly sacrificed his life to atone for the sins of humanity or that only by his sacrifice and our belief in him as our Lord and BREAKTHROUGH CONGREGATION: TEENS LEAD THE WAY O ne week before the haunted barnyard, junior youth group members wrote on acorns and a large butternut squash for their three-dimensional CROP Walk banner; there was room for playfulness. They walked that afternoon. The following week, their haunted barnyard raised $300 more for the organization. Two years ago, having back-to-back CROP Walk fundraisers felt stressful. HOW IT FEELS TO BE 80 Author bio. Richard D. Leonard The Rev. Richard D. Leonard is minister emeritus of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City and the author of Call to Selma: Eighteen Days of Witness (Skinner HouseBooks, 2002).
UU WORLD MAGAZINE
Six experts in public health, racial injustice, economic inequality, extremism, and Unitarian Universalist theology talk about the deep fissures the past year has revealed—and how we can move forward.LATEST STORIES
No matter what issues I have with other Unitarian Universalists regarding our visions of God/Spirit, justice, race, and age—at the root of everything is community, love, and faith. IN COHOUSING COMMUNITIES, UU SENIORS ARE FINDING NEW WAYS R etired Unitarian Universalist co-ministers the Rev. Dr. Barbara Wells ten Hove and the Rev. Jaco B. ten Hove were eager for the last third of their lives to be as rich as the first two-thirds. Looking for a “radiant twilight,” in the words of their late mentor the Rev. Marvin Evans, the couple decided to move to Bellingham Cohousing, an intergenerational cohousing community in Bellingham UU WORLD ADVERTISING About Our Readers Place a Display Ad Place an Online Ad Place a Classified Ad View Online Classified Ads Advertising Policy Welcome! We invite you to join us in our pages.POEM: PANDEMIC
W hat if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world CHOICE AT THE END: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS AND THE RIGHTUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATIONUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATIONUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRINCIPLESUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST PRINCIPLES A s anyone who has sat with the dying will tell you, there are good deaths and there are bad deaths.. In 2008, James “Jim” Powell, a longtime member of First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, was having a very hard death. Riddled with cancer, Powell lay in excruciating pain with open wounds, and he was eager to hasten hisend.
WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches them with a minister whose skills can help them achieve them. While the program is still evolving BE OPEN TO RESURRECTION F ew Unitarian Universalists believe there was a physical, photographable resuscitation of Jesus’s corpse. Few believe that Jesus knowingly sacrificed his life to atone for the sins of humanity or that only by his sacrifice and our belief in him as our Lord and BREAKTHROUGH CONGREGATION: TEENS LEAD THE WAY O ne week before the haunted barnyard, junior youth group members wrote on acorns and a large butternut squash for their three-dimensional CROP Walk banner; there was room for playfulness. They walked that afternoon. The following week, their haunted barnyard raised $300 more for the organization. Two years ago, having back-to-back CROP Walk fundraisers felt stressful. HOW IT FEELS TO BE 80 Author bio. Richard D. Leonard The Rev. Richard D. Leonard is minister emeritus of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City and the author of Call to Selma: Eighteen Days of Witness (Skinner HouseBooks, 2002).
SPRING 2021 READER SURVEY Reader survey for the Spring 2021 issue of UU World. Advertisement.Newsletter
SALVATION FOR MODERN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS H osea Ballou was Universalism’s greatest American preacher and theologian in its early years; in his 1805 Treatise on Atonement he explained that he read the Bible as supporting universal salvation; that is, in the afterlife all human beings will be saved and none damned to hell. He also rejected the traditional view that Jesus’s crucifixion atoned for human sin, presenting God instead as WAS YOUR TOWN A SUNDOWN TOWN? O nce you have shown that a community or neighborhood was white on purpose, publicizing your information is the first step toward ameliorating the situation, especially in metropolitan areas. Even though proud to be overwhelmingly white, elite sundown suburbs try to avoid being known for it. This is the “paradox of exclusivity.” Residents of Kenilworth, for instance, want their town to bePOEM: PANDEMIC
W hat if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world WHAT IS DEVELOPMENTAL MINISTRY? For congregations with significant challenges and targeted goals, the UUA’s Developmental Ministry program offers a new approach. Launched in 2008 as an experiment at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, Colorado (see main story), the program helps congregations set goals, then matches them with a minister whose skills can help them achieve them. While the program is still evolvingA BENCH BY THE ROAD
Editor’s note: Almost twenty years after the Unitarian Universalist Association presented the Frederic G. Melcher Book Award to Toni Morrison for her novel Beloved, the author’s acceptance speech has inspired the installation of a unique memorial to America’s African slaves. In accepting the Melcher award on October 12, 1988, Morrison observed that “there is no suitable memorial or LEWIS LATIMER, AFRICAN AMERICAN INVENTOR AND UNITARIAN R arely today does a single person get credit for a major technological advance the way Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell did in the nineteenth century. Yet even back then, inventions were almost always the product of many ingenious minds collaborating and competing with one another. Brilliant, modest, and still little known, Lewis Latimer was a key figure behind two of the mostEMERSON’S SHADOW
R alph Waldo Emerson memorably said, “Every institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” Unitarian Universalism is too multidimensional to fit neatly within a single shadow, but if any reflection were protean enough to encompass us it would certainly beEmerson’s.
CONGREGATIONS BUILD BRIDGES, RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATIVE Painting (above): Artist Jerry Fogg created a painting and poster for All Souls Church, Unitarian Universalist, in Sioux Falls, S.D., as part of the congregation's engagement with area Native Americans(Jerry Fogg).
BRYAN STEVENSON 2017 WARE LECTURER ‘T he opposite of poverty isn’t wealth—it is justice,” said Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama, Saturday night at the Ware Lecture at General Assembly 2017 in New Orleans.He received a standing and thunderous ovation that lasted over a minute at the conclusion ofhis remarks.
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Media roundup: Religious responses to Election Day, and more UUA President Susan Frederick-Gray ‘incredibly buoyed’ by turnout; in other news, organ donors celebrated in Michigan, UU banners vandalized in Florida. Sonja L. Cohen, Christopher L. Walton 11/16/2020 MEDIA ROUNDUP: UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS OFFER PASTORAL PRESENCE, RESISTANCE DURING CONTENTIOUS ELECTION2020 Stephen
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Media roundup: Unitarian Universalists offer pastoral presence, resistance during contentious election Also in the news: Louisville church provides sanctuary to protesters against police brutality; congregations in Massachusetts and Missouri will host homeless shelters allwinter.
Sonja L. Cohen, Christopher L. Walton 11/6/2020 IN MEMORIAM: ELANDRIA WILLIAMS (1979–2020)2018
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Unitarian Universalism Today In Memoriam: Elandria Williams (1979–2020) Fierce, indomitable, and deeply compassionate, Elandria Williams served as UUA co-moderator from 2017 to 2020. Elaine McArdle 11/4/2020 Spring 2021 Other recent storiesUUWorld
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