UU World Online Archives

Features Prophetic nonviolence Toward a Unitarian Universalist theology of war and peace. By Paul Rasor in Ideas; Home grown Unitarian Universalism Developing home-based community rituals that root UU adults and children. By William J.

Features America’s founding faiths The separation of church and state in America grew out of competing visions of divine order and sacred liberty that divided the nation’s founders and its religious communities….

Features Carolyn McDade’s spirit of life Unitarian Universalism’s most beloved song, the woman who wrote it, and the communities that sustain her spirit.

Features Unitarian Universalists on the Eightfold Path Buddhism puts down roots in American congregations. By Rick Heller in Life; What is Unitarian Universalist Buddhism? The history of UU engagement with Buddhism and its growing significance….

Features Eating ethically Eating connects us intimately with the ‘interdependent web of all existence,’ but most food is grown in environmentally unsustainable ways. Is there a Seventh Principle approach to food?…

Features What torture has taught me Twelve years at the helm of Amnesty International challenged and affirmed William F. Schulz’s Unitarian Universalism. By William F. Schulz in Ideas; High-profile advocate for human rights The Rev. William F.

Features American myths reconsidered Five years after 9/11, Americans still live in the wreckage of old ideas. Religious liberals have a chance to build a new theology adequate to our complex times. Will we rise to the challenge? By W.

Features Singing in the shadow of death African musicians respond to a pandemic with songs of sorrow, resistance, advocacy, and hope. By Jonah Eller-Isaacs in Life; Human reverence The language of reverence is the language of humanity.

Features Welcome to the Ecozoic Era Meet Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow, two evangelists of cosmic evolution.

Features The sacred in images If we look more carefully at the world around us, our eyes can be channels for the sacred. By Harold Babcock in Spirit; Ted Kooser’s poetry of the people The U.S. poet laureate and winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize in poetry is a Unitarian Universalist.