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UUA General Assembly surpasses its green goals
A report from the Minneapolis Convention Center—the site of this summer’s UUA General Assembly—highlights GA’s successful environmental initiatives. No waste from the five-day convention ended up i...
Posted on uuworld.org : General Assembly (Site / Info) on Thursday September 2, 2010
Boy, we were Green!
The word from Minneapolis is that during General Assembly in June, NO waste was sent to landfills from our time at the Convention Center. 76% of waste produced was recycled and composted, and the r...
Posted on Nancy's Views on the Landscape (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010
Congregational Study Action Issue (CSAI) for 2010-2014
At the 2010 General Assembly in Minneapolis, delegates voted for “Immigration as a Moral Issue” for the congregational study action issue (CSAI) for 2010-2014. For more information about the backgr...
Posted on Unitarian Church of Los Alamos (Site / Info) on Wednesday September 1, 2010
UU Variety Show Now on the Web!
Upper Midwestern Modest: A Pretty Good Revue is finally on the UUA's GA website! We waited two whole months for this to appear, so General Assembly is a distant memory for some. About 200 people sa...
Posted on exUUberance (Site / Info) on Wednesday August 25, 2010
Unitarian Universalists at General Assembly
SOF Observed, the blog of Krista Tippett’s Speaking of Faith public radio program, has now posted the complete video recorded as this year’s General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Associati...
Posted on Be Spiritual (Site / Info) on Friday August 20, 2010
Easy-to-Share Videos About Unitarian Universalism
Looking for videos about Unitarian Universalism that you can promote via social media and on websites? Below are recommendations for finding new Unitarian Universalist videos that are high-quality,...
Posted on New Media for Unitarian Universalists (Site / Info) on Wednesday August 18, 2010
Proposing a program for the 2011 General Assembly
New this year, there is a unified process to propose a program for the 2011 General Assembly. Beginning September 1, GA program proposals may be submitted by way of an online proposal form at uua.o...
Posted on UUA General Assembly (Site / Info) on Thursday August 12, 2010
Social Media Training Materials for General Assembly
New social media training resources from the 2010 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association have been added to the UUA’s social media resources collection. These include: 1. Video ...
Posted on New Media for Unitarian Universalists (Site / Info) on Monday July 26, 2010
How Did You Become A UU?
In the second related video published on the Speaking of Faith blog, UUs attending the recent General Assembly in Minneapolis spoke of how they became UUs. How did you become a Unitarian Universali...
Posted on Be Spiritual (Site / Info) on Friday July 23, 2010
Stepping Back Up to the Plate
by Chaplain David.   Hello all!   Since Seanan Holland has finished his time with the CLF as their Ministerial Intern and as the Coordinator for the CLF Military Ministries, it is time that I step ...
Posted on CLF Military Ministries News (Site / Info) on Thursday July 15, 2010
Final texts of GA resolutions now available
Here are the final texts of the Actions of Immediate Witness, business resolutions, and responsive resolutions adopted by the UUA’s 2010 General Assembly. Actions of Immediate Witness Clean Up the ...
Posted on uuworld.org : General Assembly (Site / Info) on Monday July 12, 2010
Taking or Giving?
Last week DairyStateMom's denomination, The Presbyterian Church (USA), held its biennial General Assembly in the Twin Cities. We did not attend, but DSM especially avidly followed news of the event...
Posted on DairyStateDad (Site / Info) on Monday July 12, 2010
New Hope for Humanism
I've just about finished a book that I don't want to finish.  By that I mean that I don't want the book to end.  It's not a great novel or classic piece of literature.  It's "Good Without God" by G...
Posted on Pulpit of Joy (Site / Info) on Friday July 9, 2010
Happy Interdependence Day
Of everything at General Assembly this year, it is the Ware Lecture by Winona LaDuke that I’ve been thinking about ever since.  She managed to talk about the danger we have put the earth in, while ...
Posted on The Stole'n Word (Site / Info) on Monday July 5, 2010
Al Franken: ‘You are my favorite kind of church’
Senator Al Franken stopped by the UUA General Assembly in Minneapolis on Sunday. The UUA has published video of his address to YouTube in two parts:
Posted on uuworld.org : General Assembly (Site / Info) on Thursday July 1, 2010
Texts of proposed responsive resolutions
Here are the texts of the four responsive resolutions introduced during the final plenary session at the UUA’s 2010 General Assembly. These are unofficial versions, as presented to the delegates; f...
Posted on uuworld.org : General Assembly (Site / Info) on Thursday July 1, 2010
Times, they are a-changin'...
While I was at General Assembly last week, my children were in the woods of Wisconsin. I met them there Sunday evening and they seemed to have grown immensely - perhaps due to the double breakfasts...
Posted on MissDRE and Wonder (Site / Info) on Wednesday June 30, 2010
Passed: Youth Caucus vision of 2012 General Assembly
In the scramble to wrap up our coverage of the 2010 General Assembly, UU World published reports on three of the four proposed Responsive Resolutions presented during Sunday afternoon’s final plena...
Posted on uuworld.org : General Assembly (Site / Info) on Wednesday June 30, 2010
Human Rights Issues Dominate Annual Meeting
The 2010 General Assembly (GA) of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) closed last night in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with delegates making strong commitments to human rights and social justi...
Posted on Unitarian Universalist Association: Top Stories (Site / Info) on Tuesday June 29, 2010
Update on Phoenix
Dear Friends, I want to thank all of the members of DRUUMM and ARE who worked and are working so hard to make sure that we come to some sort of reasonable agreemetn about how to have a meaningful r...
Posted on DRUUMM DRUUMM Blog (Site / Info) on Monday June 28, 2010
Minneapolis Gratitude Exercise #2
1) I've had a lot of opportunities for Calves of Steel workouts. And shoes enough to rotate where the raw spots congregate. 2) I've had any number of really authentic conversations, at nearly every...
Posted on MissDRE and Wonder (Site / Info) on Sunday June 27, 2010
General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association
  We took the long route to General Assembly this year – through the Upper Penninsula of Michigan and through Wisconsin, and down to Minneapolis.  My son got lots of practice driving and we got to ...
Posted on The Stole'n Word (Site / Info) on Saturday June 26, 2010
Finding balance at GA
I arrived at General Assembly confident that I would find balance this week between rushing around at the convention center and having some time to read and be. Wrong! I also had grand hopes of blo...
Posted on source/REsource (Site / Info) on Saturday June 26, 2010
Like beauty, sexuality may lie in the eye of the beholder
I'm not at the 2010 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly in Minneapolis, but I've read this morning that two UU bloggers have commented on their interpretation that the opening cerem...
Posted on Liberal Faith Development (Site / Info) on Thursday June 24, 2010
A Convenient Fantasy (General Assembly as Witness Event)
Yesterday, the Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association, released a message containing his views on the debate over holding our 2012 General Assembly (GA) in Phoenix,...
Posted on The Arc of the Universe (Site / Info) on Friday June 11, 2010
Standing on the Side of Love for Marriage Equality
General Assembly attendees are invited to join in an Interfaith Community Public Witness Event at the Twin Cities’ Pride Weekend—the fourth largest bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender (BGLT) PR...
Posted on UUA General Assembly (Site / Info) on Friday May 28, 2010
Shutter: “Progressive Changes in Universalist Thought” (1895)
Since the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly will be held in Minneapolis this year, I though some choice words from one of the more prominant Universalist ministers to have served ...
Posted on Rev. Scott Wells (Site / Info) on Monday May 24, 2010
Universalists in “Who’s Who in America” (1899), part 2
Some of the still-known Universalist luminaries of the age; others — like the then-young Charles H. Vail — bear some review. And hope someone will make something of Marion Daniel Shutter, then the ...
Posted on Rev. Scott Wells (Site / Info) on Sunday May 23, 2010
40 Days to GA!
A great way to meet 40/40/40 participants from around the country is by attending the UUA General Assembly, set to launch in Minneapolis on June 23. You and other members of your congregation devot...
Posted on 40/40/40 for the Earth! (Site / Info) on Friday May 14, 2010
The General Assembly Boycott of Arizona
Sometimes I hesitate to write about Unitarian Universalist political stuff. This is for a couple reasons that deserve at least a line or two each that I feel compelled to outline as semi-disclaimer...
Posted on Elizabeth's Little Blog (Site / Info) on Thursday May 13, 2010
By the time we get to Phoenix...
Report from the May 6 UUA Virtual Board meeting Ever since SB 1070 was signed by the Arizona governor, the UUA board emails have been non-stop, primarily among ourselves, but also lobbying from var...
Posted on UUA View from Berkeley (Site / Info) on Friday May 7, 2010
Forums for May
May 2-"Saving" Utes. In "Unitarians Worked to ‘Save’ Ute Indians", Sonja L. Cohen describes the failed attempts by nineteenth-century Unitarian ministers to civilize and manage the Ute Indian tribe...
Posted on Wayside Chapel (Site / Info) on Sunday May 2, 2010
14 out of 88? Wow!
I heard this week that 14 of the 88 members of the Bismarck-Mandan Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will be attending General Assembly in June. Wow! 14 out of 88! That’s terrific! Then I heard tha...
Posted on Nancy's Views on the Landscape (Site / Info) on Wednesday March 17, 2010
Links from yesterday’s ‘multiculturalism’ sermon
Here’s the link to the story in the UU World magazine: http://www.uuworld.org/life/articles/145503.shtml And here are the links to the Berry Street Address and Response on multiculturalism from thi...
Posted on Seeking Sophia (Site / Info) on Monday November 16, 2009
July 6, 2009
Views from General Assembly 2009 Let me just hit some of the high points of GA for you and let you know where you can get more information and details. Of course by now you probably know that Rev. ...
Posted on Tom Loughrey UUA Trustee (Site / Info) on Monday July 6, 2009
Final impressions of GA 2009
I’m about to go to bed, because I have to get up at three in the morning (heaven help me) to catch my train back east. Before I do, though, here are a few impressions of General Assembly 2009: – Th...
Posted on General Assembly 2009 (Site / Info) on Sunday June 28, 2009
Don’t Miss the Candidate’s Forum Tonight
The UUA Candidates Forum, 7:00 – 8:15 pm Thursday June 26, will be the only opportunity at General Assembly to see the candidates side by side, answering questions about the issues that confront ou...
Posted on Morales for UUA President (Site / Info) on Thursday June 25, 2009
The rest of the sermon series in Davenport
May 24: A Happy Atheist Walks Into a Church/Memorial Day readings from Molly Tiegland May 31: Surrender with Lisa Killnger from the Islamic Community Children's Carnival after church June 7: What i...
Posted on Progress Quad Cities (Site / Info) on Tuesday May 19, 2009
May 12, 2009
See You At General Assembly! As I write this we are just about six weeks out from the start of General Assembly in Salt Lake City. I for one am really looking forward to returning to Utah. We have ...
Posted on Tom Loughrey UUA Trustee (Site / Info) on Tuesday May 12, 2009
What would make our churches healthier?
The UU faith would be healthier if there was less unkindness. Most of the time, UUs are kind to each other. But every once and a while, good people get their ears burned off by their angry co-relig...
Posted on UU Covenant Groups, Lay Preaching & Evangelizing (Site / Info) on Sunday April 26, 2009
Qu. to UUA candidates Hallman, Morales on purpose & future of General Assembly (GA
The following are the (belated) answers to a monthly question posed to both candidates by the UUA elections commission on their official election page under Questions: http://www.uua.org/aboutus/go...
Posted on A Fact Driven Forum to Compare the UUA Presidential Candidates (Site / Info) on Friday March 20, 2009
URGENT: Committed youth advocates needed!
Hello All, I have just returned from General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, FL, the UUA's annual business meeting. The Youth and Young Adult Empowerment Resolution which you may have heard of was pas...
Posted on YRUU UUlogy (Site / Info) on Thursday July 3, 2008
General Assembly 2008
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - There is something about a gathering of thousands of UU's that is inspiring and uplifting. I had forgotten how lost I can get when I feel I am the only one, or that my co...
Posted on Here's Lookin' at UU (Site / Info) on Sunday June 29, 2008
General Assembly update
Below is an update on the UU SGM Network's GA programming. The Small Group Ministry Network is planning the following activities at General Assembly in Fort Lauderdale, June 25-29, 2008. Check at t...
Posted on Covenant Group News (Site / Info) on Sunday May 18, 2008
Being a UU in the New Year
by Andrea Heier Happy New Year! I hope it is a promising one for all of you, for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka and UUCM’s Lifespan Religious Education program. With each new year ...
Posted on Faith Developments (Site / Info) on Wednesday January 3, 2007
The Journey Toward Wholeness at General Assembly 2006
The JTWTC is hosting several events in St. Louis that we want you to know about: On Friday, June 23 at 2:15 pm in America's Center Room 231: Staking Our Place on the Journey This session will provi...
Posted on step by step (Site / Info) on Thursday June 15, 2006
Worth Reading
From the UUA World online: The elevator story A racially-charged encounter seen through different eyes reveals worlds of difference. By Special Review Commission As members of a commission appointe...
Posted on step by step (Site / Info) on Saturday March 18, 2006
Polity, Institutional & Parish Life # 30
pip 30. Talking about General Assembly leads us right into congregational polity. I wonder if briefly you could compare and contrast the different polities of Catholicism, Methodism and Congregatio...
Posted on UUmins2b (Site / Info) on Sunday January 29, 2006
Sunday, February 5, 2006
Fifth Sunday After Epiphany (Year B) February 5, 2006 (Above) Sixth Mount Zion Baptist was organized in Richmond, Virginia in September 1867 by John Jasper (1812-1901), who would go on to become on...
Posted on Hymns of the Week (Site / Info) on Saturday January 14, 2006
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