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Past Programs

Everybody Talks about the weather, but Nobody does Anything

Wayde Schafer, Sierra Club representative, Touches on the Complexities of Global Warming and the Political Will needed to confront it.

A Spiritual Future for North Dakota

North Dakota has a distinctive spiritual past, but where is North Dakota going in terms of spirituality? Where should we want to go and how do we get there? Clay Jenkinson will explore his vision for the spiritual future of North Dakota.

Sky Pilots and Poets: In the Beginning was the Word

Shadd reads poems that he finds spiritual in a variety of ways and from a variety of poets.

Unitarian Universalist Association: Top Stories

UUSC and UUA Launch Joint Pakistan Flood Relief Fund

In response to the massive flooding in Pakistan, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) have launched the UUSC-UUA Joint Pakistan Flood Relief ...

UUSC, UUA Declare Support for Lower Manhattan Mosque

On August 9, 2010, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) sent a joint letter to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg expressing strong support ...

UUA President Applauds California Prop 8 Ruling

(Boston) Rev. Peter Morales, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA), today issued the following statement:The ruling today by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ...

uuworld.org : The Interdependent Web

Believing, defining jihad, and other UU blogger concerns

UUs and believing
The Rev. Fred L. Hammond has a pet peeve about people who say UUs can believe whatever they want.

Mosques, culture, joys and concerns, and more on UU blogs

Mosques, Islam, and September 11
Deb Weiner defends the Cordoba Initiative’s plans to build a community center (which will include a mosque) in lower Manhattan:

Reasons for living, taking relationships for granted, and more UU blogging

UU culture
Shawna Foster responds to John Katz’s UU World essay, “I’m proud of UU culture.”

uuworld.org : UU Parenting

What my GPS has taught me about parenting

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What my GPS has taught me about parenting

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Raising resilient nonconformists

Despite our best intentions to raise freethinking children who understand there are many possibilities for religious truths, the reality is most of us live and function in a world which frowns upon nonconformity where religious ideas are concerned. Even as our country grows more and more religiously diverse each generation, distrust of atheism, agnosticism, and humanism remains the last bastion of intolerance because many people have the mistaken notion that nonbelievers have no sense of morality.