Editorial

UUA leaders have given the magazine and its other communications teams a mandate to prioritize and serve historically marginalized people working to undo the legacy of white supremacy culture in the UUA and beyond.

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

Questions probing the heart of Unitarian Universalism.

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.

Like other young gay men of my generation, I had few role models in the 1980s. I’m wrestling with the reality that I am now an elder.

Visual meditations.

If our justice work does not emerge from the moral and spiritual value of love, in the end it will reinforce practices of domination and violence, just in new forms.

Simply by existing, it serves many others. For human beings, the work of the bodhisattva is a path of kindness, the choice to serve others as a way of life.

Members of TRUUsT, an organization of transgender and nonbinary UU religious professionals, share their stories.

‘At its best our Unitarian Universalist World will be a tangible reflection of what we are and will provide impetus toward what we can be.’

‘You said it was for the best if my soul remained hidden… . I believed you for a time.’

Unitarian Universalism has not always made space for the work of trans ministers, but the work of trans ministers has been precious and irreplaceable just the same.