Walking Through the Rooms of Our Lives

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our

Will the end result of a Trump administration be a good thing for immigration reform?

Yes, we can draw frightening parallels to history ( “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in thei

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More Than Slayers of Social Justice Cause Dragons?

I Am UU posted a series of writing challenges, one of which was to write an elevator speech (how you would explain your org in a few sentences, as if you were on an elevator with someone and only had

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Race and Ethnicity and the US Census

If you want to understand the inconsistent, ambiguous, and vague definitions of race and ethnicity that we operate with in the U.S., look no further than the U.S. Census. Despite the fact that people

How Does a Congregation Appeal to All People?

So, someone said recently that when most African-Americans walk into a UU church service, they immediately feel out of place because most UUs don't have the same tradition in dressing well for church.

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