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  • R-20120229-0021.jpg Hiram Powers American, 1805 - 1873 Study of a Hand, 1856 charcoal heightened with white chalk on green wove paper sheet: 11.2 × 17.6 cm (4 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.) John Davis Hatch Collection, National Gallery of Art.
    Editorial

    During the AIDS era, the saving presence of art in my life enabled me both to grieve full time and to serve as a minister full time.

    Mark L. Belletini
  • New York City’s Fulton Street Subway Station is empty during rush hour on March 24, 2020.
    Editorial

    There  are  long timelines of history, punctuated by significant interruptions. The ‘Except.’ We are living in the Except.

    Joanna Fontaine Crawford
  • 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

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