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Representing a moral center

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About sixty clergy including Unitarian Universalist Association President Susan Frederick-Gray marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12 in an interfaith, nonviolent protest against a white supremacist rally.

Representing a moral center

Interfaith, multiracial clergy coalition resisted white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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The Rev. Robin Tanner, her hands ziptied, is led away by a police officer
Arrested as an act of moral obedience
Robin Tanner
Elandria Williams and Barb Greve at the 2013 UUA General Assembly

UUA Board of Trustees appoints two co-moderators

Elaine McArdle
UUA Acting Chief Operating Officer Carey McDonald

UUA president names McDonald acting chief operating officer

Christopher L. Walton

The Breakthrough Congregation reimagined

Michael Hart

Media roundup: Ohio ACLU leader notes religion’s role in group’s formation, ongoing work

Rachel Walden

Interdependent Web: The well of white resentment, context and continuity, the path of rebellion

Heather Christensen

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UUs fight ACA repeal with civil disobedience

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Interfaith clergy (including Unitarian Universalist the Rev. Robin Tanner, center) carry a cardboard coffin while leading a procession to protest attempts to repeal the ACA, Washington, D.C., on July 25, 2017.

UUs fight ACA repeal with civil disobedience

Unitarian Universalists joined interfaith coalition partners fighting repeal of the Affordable Care Act.

Elaine McArdle | 8/11/2017

UUA Board of Trustees appoints two co-moderators

UU news
Elandria Williams and Barb Greve at the 2013 UUA General Assembly

UUA Board of Trustees appoints two co-moderators

Trustee Elandria Williams and Mr. Barb Greve will serve together as co-moderators until special election in 2018.

Elaine McArdle | 8/9/2017

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‘Leaving no one out’

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The Rev. Nathan Woodliff-Stanley, executive director of the ACLU of Colorado, holds a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

‘Leaving no one out’

Unitarian Universalist minister who heads Colorado ACLU sees complentary values in civil liberties work and in UU communities.

Alexandra Varney McDonald | 7/31/2017 | Summer 2017

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Sin is personal, not just systemic

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torn posters with human faces

Sin is personal, not just systemic

Does the sin of white supremacy live in us or in the systems beyond us? 

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The essence of spiritual activism

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The essence of spiritual activism

Hope and compassion can be a critical part of political and spiritual resistance for Unitarian Universalists.

Christine Organ | 7/24/2017 | Summer 2017

UUA president names new acting chief operating officer

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UUA Acting Chief Operating Officer Carey McDonald

UUA president names new acting chief operating officer

President Susan Frederick-Gray names outreach director Carey McDonald to one-year term as acting chief operating officer.

Christopher L. Walton | 7/17/2017

Coming of age in an American internment camp

Life
Rose and Floyd Tanaka in 2007.

Coming of age in an American internment camp

Rose Tanaka, a Denver UU, graduated high school at Manzanar, the infamous American internment camp for people of Japanese descent.

Kenny Wiley | 7/17/2017 | Summer 2017

Three commandments: stay, learn, go

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Three commandments: stay, learn, go

A Gary Snyder poem helps me find my way in our messed-up world.

Jeffrey A. Lockwood | 7/17/2017

Henry David Thoreau, the original none

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Drawing of Henry David Thoreau by Dwight C. Sturges.

Henry David Thoreau, the original none

He wanted nothing to do with the Unitarian church that baptized him, but today’s Unitarian Universalism has embraced his revolutionary ecological, conscientious, and spiritually open approach.

Richard Higgins | 7/10/2017 | Summer 2017

Roger Nash Baldwin, Unitarian co-founder of ACLU

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Roger Nash Baldwin visits the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 1970.

Roger Nash Baldwin, Unitarian co-founder of ACLU

Unitarian co-founder of the ACLU helped to define and defend civil liberties.

Kris Willcox | 7/3/2017 | Summer 2017

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