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  • The UUA Leadership Council is 42 percent people of color in January 2020.
    Editorial

    Careful attention to hiring practices has diversified the staff of the Unitarian Universalist Association and deepened its commitment to antiracism, antioppression, and multiculturalism.

    Elaine McArdle
  • Oil painting 'Indians in Council, California', by Albert Bierstadt, 1872. Dark night scene, people in foreground and mountain in background.
    Ideas

    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
  • Stock photo of multi colored woven string
    Editorial

    What in Unitarian Universalism’s central theology requires us to work toward building multicultural, antiracist Beloved Community?

    Nancy Palmer Jones, Karin Lin
  • Photo collage of 6 spiritual friends, from top left: Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Lewis Hayden
    Editorial

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

    John A. Buehrens
  • At the end of a June 21 public witness rally during the UUA General Assembly in Spokane, Washington, UUs and local activists form a heart in the park where hundreds called for criminal justice reforms.
    Editorial

    Questions probing the heart of Unitarian Universalism.

    Elandria Williams, Carey McDonald, The Rev. Mr. Barb Greve, Sofía Betancourt, Elías Ortega
  • Ceanothus silk moth on the trunk of a California black oak tree
    Editorial

    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.

    Stephanie Kaza
  • Collage of selfies of 12 trans UU professionals: Sarah Weaver, Sam Allen, Juniper Stinnett, B. Herbert, Theresa I. Soto, Chris Rothbauer, Andrée Mol, Leela Sinha, jo mosher, Mykal Slack, CB Beal, Sean Parker Dennison
    Editorial

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

    TRUUsT
  • Editorial

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

    Gwen­dolyn Howard
  • The Rev. Dr. Gwen­dolyn Howard
    Editorial

    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.

    Theresa I. Soto
  • Selfies of trans UU professionals Sam Allen, Tesni Taylor, Steven Leigh Williams, Marcus Fogliano, Theresa I. Soto, Andrée Mol, and Chris Rothbauer
    Editorial

    Thanks to my trans siblings, trans and cisgender UUs are talking about the harm caused by a recent article.

    Sam Allen
  • Selfies of trans UU professionals, featuring Sean Parker Dennison, Juniper Stennett, B. Herbert, KC Slack
    Editorial

    There is no excuse for refusing to learn, when there are teachers all around us.

    Sean Parker Dennison

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