In memoriam: Elandria Williams (1979–2020)
Fierce, indomitable, and deeply compassionate, Elandria Williams served as UUA co-moderator from 2017 to 2020.
We are community
No matter what issues I have with other Unitarian Universalists regarding our visions of God/Spirit, justice, race, and age—at the root of everything is community, love, and faith.
We are living in the ‘Except’
There are long timelines of history, punctuated by significant interruptions. The ‘Except.’ We are living in the Except.
‘UU World’ turns 50
Throughout many changes, this magazine has remained a benefit of membership in a UU congregation.
A new generation of UU leaders in the Philippines
How the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Philippines came to be, and how it continues to evolve.
Thank you
Your congregation’s support for the UUA’s Annual Program Fund makes vital work possible. For the past 50 years, UU World has been a tangible thank-you for that support.
The problem with wilderness
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.
New UUA Common Read choices focus on indigenous peoples’ experience
Discussion guide available for ‘An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.’
Historic Ohio church gets new cupola
News briefs: Youngstown, Ohio, church puts cupola where steeple had been; All Souls in Manhattan marks bicentennial; Casper, Wyoming, UUs help install mural honoring local civil rights martyr James Reeb.
Spiritual friendship and social justice
The Transcendentalists practiced the art of forming and maintaining spiritual friendships transcending differences of gender, social location, theology, politics, and race.
NPR confirms four men attacked Reeb in 1965
Investigative series confirms that four white men joined in the attack that killed civil rights activist James Reeb in 1965.
‘Always in beta’
The Church of the Larger Fellowship celebrates seventy-five years of innovative ministry.